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Golf: Media

Is golf a sport?

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The phenomenal Babe Didrikson
A 1956 newsreel on the death of golfer and gold-medal Olympian Babe Didrikson Zaharias,...
Video: National Archives, Washington, D.C.

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Golf
Is golf a sport?
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Chuiwan
Ming dynasty painting (circa 1425–35) depicting Emperor Xuande playing chuiwan,...
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Kolf
Portrait of a Boy with a Kolf Stick, painting by Wybrand de Geest, 1631.
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St. Andrews
A group of men playing golf in 1798 at the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews,...
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Tiger Woods
American golfer Tiger Woods competing at the British Open (Open Championship) at...
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Condoleezza Rice.
Former Secretary of State Rice was one of the first two women admitted to Augusta...
U.S. Department of State
Mark Twain.
Twain, an American humorist, famously called golf “a good walk spoiled.”
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