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U.S. OPEN PLAYOFF HISTORY
Retief Goosen (70) d. Mark Brooks (72), Southern Hills Country Club, Tulsa, Okla. 1994 -- Ernie Els (par) d. Loren Roberts on the second hole of sudden-death playoff (Els and Roberts were both tied at 74 through 18-hole playoff; Colin Montgomerie was...Tags: Payne Stewart, Jack Fleck, Loren Roberts, Curtis Strange, Willie Anderson
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U.S. ties top-ranked Argentina 1940
Goalkeeper Tim Howard had four spectacular point-blank saves on Julio Cruz, Landon Donovan made his 100th international appearance and the United States tied top-ranked Argentina 0-0 on Sunday night in an exhibition in East Rutherford, N.J. The match,...Tags: Tim Howard, Roger Federer, Asjha Jones, U.S. Open Golf, Connecticut Sun
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'Lord' of the links reigned supreme
Byron Nelson, whose record of winning 11 consecutive professional golf events in 1945 remains one of sports' most unassailable records, died yesterday at his home in Roanoke, Texas. He was 94. The Tarrant County Medical Examiners office announced Nelson'...Tags: Tiger Woods, Armed Forces, Jack Nicklaus, Sam Snead, Multi-Sport Events
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Much of golf history written on Long Island
Newsday Staff WriterMembers at Nassau Country Club grew tired of reading lopsided scores of their golf matches in the newspaper. So, at the turn of the 20th century, they devised a new scoring system: one point to the winner of the front nine, one for the winner of the back,...Tags: History, Clubs and Associations, Tiger Woods, San Diego County, Inwood
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U.S. OPEN
SCORING Scores and earnings after the final round of the U.S. Open, on the 6,996-yard Shinnecock Hills Golf Club course; par-70; a-indicates amateur; purse $6.25 million: Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.3 Rd. 4 Total Score Retief Goosen, $1,125,000 70 66 69 71 276 -4...Tags: Craig Parry, Hubert Green, Gene Littler, Steve Jones, Willie Anderson
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Forging America: The History of Bethlehem Steel - Chapter 5
Marie Gawlik of Bethlehem, who cooked and did other work for Grace, remembers his 50th wedding anniversary party in 1952. Furniture was removed to make way for tables where guests could sit and listen to Gypsy music performed by strolling musicians from...Tags: Dwight David Eisenhower, Music Industry, Allentown, Fred Astaire, Iron and Steel
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LI Sports: A Chronology
1664: The first organized sport in America, horse racing, begins when the first English Governor of New York, Richard Nicolls, establishes the Newmarket Course at Hempstead Plains, close to the present site of Roosevelt Raceway. The purpose was to...Tags: Dwight David Eisenhower, Stanford White, Trotting, Larry Holmes, Jimmy Connors
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Skokie CC, 1922
Staff WriterGene Sarazen was born to immigrant Italians in 1902 in Harrison, N.Y., as Eugenio Saraceni. He was a small but powerful all-around athlete, though he didn't play golf until he came down with pleurisy and was advised to get a job outdoors. Through a...Tags: Glencoe, Jeff Williams, Skokie, Cook County, Clubs and Associations
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Building history and legend
Newsday Staff WriterBuilding History and Legend; Jones' career jump-started on courses throughout LI BYLINE: By Jeff Williams; STAFF WRITER SECTION: SPORTS, Pg. K07 LENGTH: 627 words During the past century of American golf, the greats of the game have been hewn from the...Tags: Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Jeff Williams, Clubs and Associations, Arnold Palmer
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The out of nowhere man
STAFF WRITERStrange, the things history can do. Once, everybody wanted to be the next Jack Fleck, an obscure club professional from Iowa who defeated Ben Hogan in an 18-hole playoff in the 1955 U.S. Open at San Francisco's Olympic Club. Now, Fleck is the name...Tags: Vacations, Hubert Green, Cook County, Gene Littler, Steve Jones
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