Golf

K. Bradley (USA) wins the PGA Grand Slam at Southampton, Bermuda

Golf Global Cup 2011: Oriental Tigers in pursuit of the Masters
That Golf is one of the world’s elite sports is confirmed by some of the facts of the 2011 Golf Global Cup.
Tiger Woods of the USA

Major Golfing Competitions

The GSN Global Cup and Annual Ranking feature the world’s top men and ladies tournaments for prestige and prize money: The British and the US Open Championships, the PGA a...

Colin Montgomerie of England

Golf Numbers
 You can trust GSN to dig up some interesting stats from the world of golfing competitions. Here’s a selection to whet the appetite:

Golf: the sport
Golf is a sport in which players using many types of clubs including woods, irons, and putters, attempt to hit a ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible nu...
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Golfing Equipment
Outside of the UK and USA, where well-kept municipal courses abound and green fees are accessible, golf is still something of an elite sport because of the high costs of equip...

Global Cup - Golf

2013

Top Positions Points % Chg
1 Australia 113 36.2
2 South Korea 68 21.6
3 Argentina 40 12.8
4 United States 37 11.8
5 Sweden 18 5.8
6 Norway 17 5.3
7 Denmark 13 4.0
8 Great Britain 5 1.5
9 Spain 2 0.5
10 Italy 2 0.5

2012

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Top Positions Points % Chg
1 United States 530 28.9
2 Great Britain 423 23.1
3 South Korea 225 12.3 1
4 South Africa 173 9.4 1
5 Australia 98 5.4 -2
6 Sweden 84 4.6 4
7 Japan 68 3.7 1
8 Thailand 65 3.5 5
9 China 42 2.3
10 India 25 1.4 2

2011

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Top Positions Points % Chg
1 United States 636 34.7
2 Great Britain 318 17.3
3 Australia 161 8.8 2
4 South Korea 139 7.6 -1
5 South Africa 100 5.5 -1
6 Taiwan 84 4.6 2
7 Denmark 65 3.5
8 Japan 63 3.5 3
9 Philippines 50 2.7
10 Sweden 49 2.6 -3

2010

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Top Positions Points % Chg
1 United States 552 30.1
2 Great Britain 329 17.9
3 South Korea 263 14.3
4 South Africa 140 7.6 2
5 Australia 122 6.7
6 Germany 106 5.8 5
7 Sweden 70 3.8 3
8 Taiwan 60 3.3
9 Norway 45 2.5
10 France 40 2.2

2009

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Top Positions Points % Chg
1 United States 525 58.6
2 Great Britain 145 16.2 2
3 South Korea 51 5.7 2
4 Argentina 50 5.6 15
5 Australia 32 3.5 7
6 South Africa 25 2.7 4
7 Japan 25 2.8 7
8 Denmark 19 2.1
9 Norway 11 1.2 8
10 Sweden 9 0.9 -8

Per Capita Cup - Golf

2013

Top Positions People Per Point Chg
1 Australia 189483
2 Norway 289818
3 Sweden 512431
4 South Korea 714430
5 United States 8321992
6 Great Britain 13111192
7 Spain 27637547
8 Italy 39746193

2012

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Top Positions People Per Point Chg
1 Sweden 109481 2
2 Great Britain 144676 2
3 South Korea 214567 4
4 Australia 218115 -2
5 Ireland 265325
6 Norway 277217
7 South Africa 277395 1
8 United States 575464 1
9 Thailand 969819 4
10 Taiwan 1277778 -5

2011

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Top Positions People Per Point Chg
1 Denmark 84446
2 Australia 132991 1
3 Sweden 190181 -1
4 Great Britain 192409 1
5 Taiwan 273810 2
6 Norway 318800 -5
7 South Korea 346312 -3
8 South Africa 478507 -2
9 United States 479969 -1
10 Spain 1630566

2010

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Top Positions People Per Point Chg
1 Norway 106267 2
2 Sweden 131768 3
3 Australia 175505 1
4 South Korea 183710 2
5 Great Britain 186117 -4
6 South Africa 341791 3
7 Taiwan 383333
8 United States 552790 -1
9 Germany 773562 2
10 France 1611829

2009

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Top Positions People Per Point Chg
1 Great Britain 6
2 Denmark
3 Norway 1
4 Australia 1 4
5 Sweden 1 -3
6 South Korea 1
7 United States 1 3
8 Argentina 1 7
9 South Africa 2 2
10 Japan 5 4

Golf Tournaments

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Masters 14 Apr 2013
Kraft Nabisco Championship 7 Apr 2013
PGA Tour 31 Dec 2012
European Tour 31 Dec 2012
Asian Tour 31 Dec 2012
Women's British Open 16 Sep 2012
PGA Championship 12 Aug 2012
British Open 22 Jul 2012
Golf : US Women's Open 8 Jul 2012
Golf: US Open 17 Jun 2012
LPGA Championship 10 Jun 2012
Masters 8 Apr 2012
Kraft Nabisco Championship 1 Apr 2012

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Asian Tour 18 Dec 2011
PGA Tour 12 Dec 2011
European Tour 12 Dec 2011
PGA Championship 14 Aug 2011
Women's British Open 31 Jul 2011
British Open 17 Jul 2011
Golf : US Women's Open 11 Jul 2011
LPGA Championship 26 Jun 2011
Golf: US Open 19 Jun 2011
Masters 10 Apr 2011
Kraft Nabisco Championship 3 Apr 2011
PGA Tour 31 Dec 2010
Asian Tour 31 Dec 2010
Annika Sorenstam of Sweden

Golf Champions
The field of winners in the four major men’s championships (the Masters, the US Open, the British Open, the PGA Championship) which constitute the elite in world golf is...
Jack Nicklaus swings

How to improve your game
Golf is one of those sports that consists of essentially unnatural body movements, requiring great balance and coordination.
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The History of Golf
When was the first game of golf played? Forget wild suggestions of Mongol warlords tossing about their vanquished enemies’ heads with sticks.
The 8th at Pebble Beach

Golfing locations
One of the greatest pleasures of golf is being out there on a course, lost in a sea of green fringed by trees and natural ondulations, trying to become one with club and ball...