Understanding The Big Golf Tournaments
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Being knowledgeable about a sport does not necessarily mean you will be good at it, but not being knowledgeable certainly means that you won’t be! Take golf for instance, it is essential to know about the big tournaments if you want to improve you game. You will learn what clubs the pro players choose for certain shots, how they swing, even what they wear, all of this you can take and adapt into your game to see better results.
U.S. PGA Tournament - The PGA TOUR is a group of golf contests taking place over the duration of the year that have various prizes and competitors. The competitions are thrown at golf courses all across the U.S. from Hawaii to Florida. There are playoffs that take place near the last part of the year. To date, the competitor with the highest total amount of cash won from the PGA TOUR at the moment is Tiger Woods with $77,515,376.
With a prize pool of a cool $7,000,000 then the PGA Championship is one golfing event you definitely want to take part in. In 2007 Tiger Woods won $1.26 million from this event alone. It is one of the major four tournaments and plays in August time usually to finish the year off while the weather is still nice.
Don’t forget the other three major events! The US Open, the Open Championship (also known as the British Championship) and the Masters, all with a prize pool of around $7,000,000 each. They are all unique in their requirements, locations and the players who choose to play them. Let’s take a look at each:
One odd major championship is the Masters. All the others rotate their courses around, but the Masters vehemently refuses to and has been played on the same course (Augusta National Golf Club) since 1934! I guess if it isn’t broken don’t try and fix it.
If win the Masters then you become and honorary member of the club and get a distinctive green jacket. This jacket has been awarded since 1949 and is highly prized among golfers. They keep it for one year and then give it back to the club who hold it for them to wear whenever they visit. The winner from the year before is supposed to place the jacket on the latest winner.
The US Open is indeed very ‘open’, it allows experts and gifted amateurs to play and even male and female golfers together. If you have a USGA handicap of not more than 1.4 you can participate in the qualifying rounds. It is held on various courses around the US and has been played since 1895.
The Open Championship, a.k.a. the British Open, is a golf competition thrown at varied golf venues in the United Kingdom. It is usually organized the third week of July. The record for total triumphs at the Open Championship is six, held by Harry Vardon, whose final appearance was in 1914. The Open is the first of all the most well-known golf competitions.
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