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John Player Trophy
The John Player Trophy was a golf tournament on the European Tour that was played in England. It was played twice. The first event in 1970 at Notts Golf Club in Nottinghamshire was the 36-hole qualifying event for the John Player Classic. In 1972, at Bognor Regis Golf Club in West Sussex West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ..., it was run as a separate tournament. Winners References External linksCoverage on the European Tour's official site {{Former European Tour Events Former European Tour events Golf tournaments in England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis (), sometimes simply known as Bognor (), is a town and seaside resort in West Sussex on the south coast of England, south-west of London, west of Brighton, south-east of Chichester and east of Portsmouth. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the south-west. The nearby villages of Felpham, and Aldwick are now suburbs of Bognor Regis, along with those of North and South Bersted. The population of the Bognor Regis built-up area, including Felpham and Aldwick, was 63,855 at the 2011 census. A seaside resort was developed by Sir Richard Hotham in the late 18th century on what was a sand and gravel, undeveloped coastline. It has been claimed that Hotham and his new resort are portrayed in Jane Austen's unfinished novel ''Sanditon''. The resort grew slowly in the first half of the 19th century but grew rapidly following the coming of the railway in 1864. In 1929 the area was chosen by advisors to King George V which led to its r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 European Tour
The 1972 European Tour was a series of golf tournaments that comprised the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) tournament circuit. It is officially recognised as the first season of the PGA European Tour. Historically, the PGA's Order of Merit only included tournaments in Great Britain and Ireland, but in 1970 events in continental Europe were included for the first time. The circuit and organisation evolved further over the following years, adopting the name ''PGA European Golf Tour'' in 1979. The season made up of 20 tournaments counting for the Order of Merit, and some non-counting tournaments that later became known as "Approved Special Events". The schedule included the major national opens around Europe, with other tournaments mostly held in England and Scotland. The Order of Merit was won by England's Peter Oosterhuis, who also led the standings in prize money and stroke average. Changes for 1972 There were several changes from the previous year's British PGA circuit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notts Golf Club
Notts Golf Club, more commonly referred to simply as Hollinwell, is an 18-hole members golf club in Nottinghamshire, England which has hosted a number of leading amateur and professional competitions. The course has widely been reviewed as one of the top 50 courses in England and the British Isles. Name The name Hollinwell reportedly relates to the presence of a holy well in trees close to the 8th fairway, and is the more-commonly used name for the golf course itself. However the members belong to the Notts Golf Club and Hollinwell is the name of the course on which the club plays. In concession to this, the two names are usually both used when formally referring to the club giving rise to the name Notts Golf Club (Hollinwell). History Notts Golf Club was initially founded as the Nottingham Golf Club in 1887 and started on a 5-hole course using a recreation ground under the permission of the local council. This was soon found to be inadequate and during the same year the club mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Large
William Large (2 July 1937 – 15 March 2006) was an English professional golfer. He was born in Liverpool, where his father, Bill Large, Sr., was professional at the Allerton Municipal course. His father had won the Northern Professional Championship in 1928. Large's first important win was in the Honda Foursomes Tournament in 1966 where he and his partner, Jimmy Hitchcock, beat the experienced pair of Peter Alliss and Christy O'Connor Snr in the final. He was joint winner of two individual tournaments, the 1966 Martini International and the 1968 Alcan International. Tournament wins *1965 Honda Foursomes Tournament (with Jimmy Hitchcock) *1966 Martini International (shared title with Peter Alliss) *1968 Alcan International (shared title with Christy O'Connor Snr Patrick Christopher "Christy" O'Connor (21 December 1924 – 14 May 2016) was an Irish professional golfer. He was one of the leading golfers on the British and Irish circuit from the mid-1950s. O'Connor won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Ingham (golfer)
Michael Robert Ingham MBE (born 24 September 1950 in Cheshire) is an English football commentator and broadcaster. Early life He grew up in Duffield and Quarndon and attended the Belper School (then The Herbert Strutt School) in Belper. He gained a Bachelor of Law degree. Career He began his career working for BBC Radio Derby in 1973, later joining the BBC in London in 1979. For some years he regularly hosted the Saturday afternoon sports programme ''Sport on Two'', and for five years he hosted BBC Radio's high-profile Saturday teatime ''Sports Report''. Around 1984 he also became a match commentator, working alongside Peter Jones and Bryon Butler. In 1991, he took over from Butler as the BBC's football correspondent. Five Live From 1990, Ingham worked alongside Alan Green as BBC Radio 5 Live's principal commentating pair, working on FA Cup Finals, World Cup finals, European Cup finals and virtually all the biggest matches in Britain and throughout the world, with man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Fidler
Roger Fidler (born January 21, 1943, in Mount Vernon, Washington) is an internationally recognized digital news media pioneer and journalist. He is best known for his prototypes of digital newspapers and mobile tablets, which he first described in a 1981 essay he wrote and illustrated for an Associated Press Managing Editors special report titled Newspapers in the Year 2000. In 1994, he produced a video at the Knight Ridder Information Design Laboratory, titled “The Tablet Newspaper: A Vision for the Future,” that demonstrated how tablets might be used for reading newspapers early in the twenty-first century. After Steve Jobs launched the Apple iPad in 2010, a digital copy of his video went viral on the web and embroiled Fidler in a global patent war between Apple and Samsung. Early life Fidler was the only child of Frank W Fidler and Marjorie Madeline McLaughlin. In 1945, they moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where his father was employed as a machinist with Harris-Seybold, a pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Clark (golfer)
Clive Anthony Clark (born 27 June 1945) is an English professional golfer and more recently a broadcaster and golf course architect. Early life and amateur career Clark started playing golf at the age of 12. He was a Junior Member at both Scarborough North Cliff and Ganton, both golf clubs being in Yorkshire, England. His dedication to the sport resulted in early success, being runner-up in The Boys' Championship and in successive years was Captain of the British Boys' Team against Europe, and later Captained The English Youth's Team vs Scotland. He progressed in his late teens to be successful in major Amateur Championships. Clive was a winner of The Brabazon Trophy (The English Amateur Strokeplay), the 72-hole Lytham Trophy, and The Golf Illustrated Gold Vase played at Sunningdale. In the same year, he was also runner-up to Michael Bonallack in both The British Amateur Championship and The English Amateur Championship. On turning 20, Clark played in The Walker Cup in Baltimore, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vince Hood
Vince is a given name, it is the anglicisation and shortened form of the name Vincent, as well as a surname. It may refer to: Given name People * Vince Agnew (born 1987), American football player * Vince Cable (born 1943), British politician * Vince Carter (born 1977), basketball player * Vince Catania (born 1977), Australian politician * Vince Clarke (born 1960), English musician with Erasure * Vince Clarke (cricketer) (born 1971), English cricketer * Vince Coleman (other), multiple people * Vince Courville (born 1959), American football player * Vince DiMaggio (1912–1986), American baseball player, older brother of Joe DiMaggio * Vince Dooley (born 1932), American football coach * Vince Gill (born 1957), American country music singer, songwriter and musician *Vince Gilligan (born 1967), American writer, producer, as well as creator and director of AMC's ''Breaking Bad'' & spin-off ''Better Call Saul'' * Vince Giordano (born 1952), American musician * Vince Guara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Butler (golfer)
Peter Joseph Butler (25 March 1932 – 13 October 2022) was an English professional golfer. He was one of the leading British golfers of the 1960s and early 1970s. He won a number of important tournaments including the 1963 PGA Close Championship and the 1968 French Open. He played in four Ryder Cup matches between 1965 and 1973 and three times in the World Cup. He played in the Open Championship 23 times, with two top-10 finishes, and seven successive times in the Masters from 1964 to 1970. Golf career Butler turned professional as a teenager in 1947, becoming an assistant to Bill Button at Harborne Golf Club, Birmingham. He played in the 1949 PGA Assistants' Championship, which was restarted that year, but finished a distant 38 strokes behind the winner. He had more success the following year, finishing in 6th place. The leading 16 players qualified for the Gor-Ray match-play tournament which had prize money of £580. Butler lost in the first round. Over the next few years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pound Sterling
Sterling (abbreviation: stg; Other spelling styles, such as STG and Stg, are also seen. ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories. The pound ( sign: £) is the main unit of sterling, and the word "pound" is also used to refer to the British currency generally, often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. Sterling is the world's oldest currency that is still in use and that has been in continuous use since its inception. It is currently the fourth most-traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after the United States dollar, the euro, and the Japanese yen. Together with those three currencies and Renminbi, it forms the basket of currencies which calculate the value of IMF special drawing rights. As of mid-2021, sterling is also the fourth most-held reserve currency in global reserves. The Bank of England is the central bank for sterling, issuing its own banknotes, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Sussex
West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an area of 1,991 square kilometres (769 sq mi), West Sussex borders Hampshire to the west, Surrey to the north, and East Sussex to the east. The county town and only city in West Sussex is Chichester, located in the south-west of the county. This was legally formalised with the establishment of West Sussex County Council in 1889 but within the ceremonial County of Sussex. After the reorganisation of local government in 1974, the ceremonial function of the historic county of Sussex was divided into two separate counties, West Sussex and East Sussex. The existing East and West Sussex councils took control respectively, with Mid Sussex and parts of Crawley being transferred to the West Sussex administration from East Sussex. In the 2011 censu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Player Classic
The John Player Classic was the richest golf tournament in Britain between 1970 and 1973. In 1972 and 1973 it was an event on the fledgling European Tour. The John Player Classic was first played in 1970 at Notts Golf Club (Hollinwell), when Ireland's Christy O'Connor Snr triumphed by one stroke over England's Tony Jacklin to collect the £25,000 first prize. Having not been held in 1971, the tournament returned as part of the new European Tour in 1972. It also had a change of venue, being moved to Turnberry on the west coast of Scotland. The tournament was played just once more, in 1973, when American Charles Coody took the title. The second round featured some of the worst conditions ever seen in a professional golf tournament, with a gale-force wind gusting up to 65 mph, and rain falling horizontally. Marquees and hoardings were destroyed, with several exhibitors tents being uprooted and flung onto the course. It was cancelled the following year because of a clash of da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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