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The Pinnacle Point Golf Course is something truly unique for the discerning golfer. This 18 hole championship golf course was designed by well-known South African golf course architect Peter Matkovich who opened the course together with top Irish Tour Golf Professional Darren Clarke in November 2006. Darren Clarke, who was also involved with many aspects of the Pinnacle Point course design, has said that Pinnacle Point is “... the best golf course on the planet.” Pinnacle Point was selected as…

Why Tom Fazio is a Big Deal at Amelia National If you’re on the hunt for an exemplary Florida golfing home, narrow your focus on the northeastern corner of the state. Lovely Nassau County is Florida’s Atlantic Coast gateway. It’s also the home of Amelia National Golf and Country Club, an exclusive, gated community only 10 minutes from salty, golden beaches. Even better? Amelia National’s 18-hole golf course was designed by one of the titans of course architecture — Tom Fazio. If you’re a…

Roy Emerson Imagine constantly training non-stop every day, soaked with sweat, this is what the greatest tennis players must do to succeed. Ladies and gentlemen, Roy Emerson deserves to have a statue constructed at Frew Park in Milton as he is a worthy tennis role model of Queensland. As the best tennis player, he has made major contributions to Australian tennis and setting amazing records. Known as a legend in tennis, he is a great Australian role model and is known world-wide. Roy Emerson…

A Brief History of Golf Golf has been a great sport ever since the reign of Julius Caesar’s time. And until now this sport has been an important one that is known around the globe. The sport golf was not the same as what it is now but most likely similar with how it was played. The players are striking a ball that is feather-stuffed with the club-shaped branches of tree. But then the golf game was then traced back as well to Song Dynasty during 960 to the year 1279. It was not exactly the same…

“Yes Sir!” the announcer proclaimed as “Jack Nicklaus [threatened] to make the 46th year of his life the most memorable to date - a year when this once young, strong, heroic golfer [made] middle age a time of even bigger heroics.” (The New York Times, May 24, 1986) Jack Nicklaus had just sunk a putt in the 1986 masters for eagle on the fifteenth hole, positioning only two back of the lead. It would be one of the greatest wins in golf’s history if he could pull it out, but there were only three…

Arnold Palmer is the King, and he has earned that name too, because he is the one of the greatest golfers of all time. He even has a tournament named after him, named the Arnold Palmer Invitational. From basically making the Senior PGA Golf, to when he started playing golf professionally, to how he made golf internationally more famous, this is how he has changed the golfing world. When the Senior PGA Golf Tour started in 1930 and from 1930 to 1979 it wasn’t very popular, the prize purse(prize…

I was born on December 20th, 1996, in Vienna, Virginia. My incredible parents, Kevin and Melissa, are black and white respectively. They both grew up without a lot, but worked tirelessly, just as their parents had done before them, to ensure that my brother and I had everything that we needed, and most of what we wanted. Although we were well above middle class on a national scale, at our predominantly white all-boys private school filled with multi-millionaire families, we were outliers. That…

Around the early nineties, golf was one of the remaining segregated sports in the United States. It was around the mid 1900s when this popular sport was took into consideration of allowing different races to play alongside each other in a championship golf tournament. The topic came into existence because of a man by the name of Charlie Sifford, who was a passionate golfer from North Carolina. Charlie began to make history with his work ethic, his love for the game, and his accomplishments.…

Payne Stewart American athlete Payne Stewart began golfing at the young age of four and was earned a spot on the PGA tour just two years after he graduated college. Stewart became famous on the tour and among fans for his singular style, he dressed in old fashion golf clothing. He had eleven tour victories and three major titles under his belt when he died at age 42 in a plane crash. For Payne Stewart to get into the PGA it took years of practice. Payne Stewart started when he was four, and…

During the 1996 Masters golf tournament at Augusta, one of the world’s finest golf courses, Greg Norman played one of the greatest eighteen hole games he had ever played. Norman shot an incredible score of 63, which still stand today as a course record. Norman went into the second day of gold with a fifteen stroke lead, only to choke under pressure scoring a 78 the day after shooting such an amazing game. Nick Faldo managed to come from behind and defeating Norman by a five stroke margin winning…