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    The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is one of the oldest golf clubs in the world. It is a private members-only club based in St Andrews in Scotland...
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    Strathtyrum Golf Club, Jubilee Course Golf Club, St Regulus Ladies Golf Club, The St Rule Club, and The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. Former...
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    in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland and is held in trust by the St Andrews Links Trust under an act of Parliament. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews...
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    part because of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, founded in 1754, which until 2004 exercised legislative authority over the game worldwide...
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    Club of St Andrews play on St Andrews Links, the Royal Montrose Mercantile Golf Club play on Montrose Links, and the Royal Epping Forest Golf Club play...
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    be designer. The New Course opened for play in 1895. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews St Andrews Golf Club The New Golf Club Herrington, Ryan...
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    The modern game of golf is generally considered to be a Scottish invention. A spokesman for The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, one of the...
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    country. The game plays a key role in the national sporting consciousness. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, known as the R&A, was the world...
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    and organised the Championship from 1860 to 1870. By the time that Prestwick had reached agreement with the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews...
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    at the end of the nineteenth century, it was the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews that took on the role of the governing body in golf as the game...
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    Francis Ouimet (category Winners of men's major golf championships)
    of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974. Ouimet was born to Mary Ellen Burke and Arthur...
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    approval by The R&A (formerly part of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews) and the United States Golf Association, and those that do not conform with...
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  • administered by The R&A (spun off from The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in 2004) and the United States Golf Association (USGA). The R&A is the governing...
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  • specific clubs are favored in each role. The ruling authorities of golf, The R&A (formerly part of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews) and the United...
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  • Cecil Middleton (category English cricketers of 1919 to 1945)
    was an Oxford Blue and champion golfer, winning the St Andrews Foursomes Cup at The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in the early 1930s. Middleton...
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  • the U.S. Amateur, The Open Championship and the U.S. Open). The film was the first motion picture concerning The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews...
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    role within the game of golf. Historically, "the R&A" was a colloquial name for the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews; in 2004, the club spun off...
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  • is the first champion. The first codified Rules of Golf are published by the St. Andrews Golfers (later The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews)....
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    and is the last of the four major championships to be played each year. In addition, this championship is conducted by The Royal and Ancient Golf Club...
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  • 1872 Open Championship (category Golf tournaments in Scotland)
    The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers at Musselburgh to share in the running and hosting of the...
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  • Society of St Andrews Golfers, later The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, who hired local carpenter Hugh Philp to make golf clubs. Philp used...
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  • Joseph Dey (category Golf writers and broadcasters)
    period of extraordinary growth in the sport. Dey played a key role in meetings between the USGA and The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in the early...
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  • (USGA) and one time Captain of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. He was inducted to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1990. Campbell was born...
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  • Tommy's Honour (category Cultural depictions of golfers)
    Tommy loves Sam Neill as Alexander Boothby, the Captain of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews In 2010 producer Jim Kreutzer happened to read...
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    James Ogilvie Fairlie (category Golf administrators)
    Medal) in 1857 and 1862. Fairlie served as the captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews and was the principal organiser of the first Open...
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    and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in Scotland. On 13 March 1880 ten founding members, led by Edward Aitken (founder of Aitken Spence), met at the Colombo...
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    The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and the St Andrews Golf Club. The club was founded in 1902. The club does not own a golf course of its own...
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  • golf has been played since the 15th century The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, one of the oldest and most prestigious golf clubs in the world...
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    Stymie (category Rules of golf)
    1920 and 1941. Finally, in 1952, the stymie was eliminated when the USGA and Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (R&A) established a joint set of rules...
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    Allan Robertson (category Golfers from St Andrews)
    is displayed in the Royal and Ancient Golf Club's gallery. His grave is in the churchyard of St Andrews Cathedral, just west of the central bell-tower...
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