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Maurice Gerald Flitcroft (23 November 1929 – 24 March 2007) was a British golfer.. Flitcroft received widespread attention after shooting a score of 121 in the qualifying competition for the 1976 Open Championship – the worst score recorded at the Open Championship by a self-professed "professional golfer", having been an inexperienced golfer.
The Phantom of the Open is a 2021 British biographical comedy-drama film directed by Craig Roberts, about the exploits of Maurice Flitcroft.The screenplay by Simon Farnaby was based upon the biography The Phantom of the Open: Maurice Flitcroft, The World's Worst Golfer by Farnaby and Scott Murray.
The following year, he played for America on the Ryder Cup team; he scored 2.5 points as America won 14 1 ⁄ 2 to 13 1 ⁄ 2. He played on the 1985 team, which lost to Europe. In 1984, Peete won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average (70.56), albeit not without controversy. In the Heritage Classic, he withdrew after shooting a 41 on the ...
Hill finished runner-up at the 1970 U.S. Open.What gained him the most notoriety, though, was not his excellent play but his criticisms of the golf course. In the middle of the championship, before the third round, Hill was fined $150 by Joe Dey Jr., commissioner of the Tournament Players Division of the PGA of America, for "criticism that tends to ridicule and demean the club".
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Watson with the U.S. Open Trophy. Watson's next brilliant putt was a miss for par - but he would credit it as one of his most important putts of a tournament won with his putting. His tee shot at 16 landed in a narrow neck of a fairway bunker, requiring Watson to come out sideways. His approach shot landed 60 feet (18 m) from the hole.
Trump’s closing pitch to voters begins with profane attacks and a lewd story about a Hall of Fame golfer. ... This will be America’s new golden age; 100 years from now the presidential ...
English teenager Kris Kim stunned the golfing world on his PGA Tour debut, as he became the youngest player to make the cut on tour in nine years – and the youngest ever at the CJ Cup Byron ...