Originally studying law at a university in Portugal he got his first chance to tread the boards at the age of 26 in an amateur college play.
The teenager then claimed six amateur titles including the Irish Amateur Open Stroke Play title in 2002 before turning professional at 19 in the same year.
When embarking on the film, Meirelles opted to use a cast of unknown amateur actors to play the slum children of Rio, many of them having experienced the hardship of the streets themselves.
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Tiger Woods remained an amateur long enough to play golf for Stanford University, though he played in his first professional tournament, the Los Angeles Open, at the age of 16.
Every summer in the museum's basement performance space, local amateur actors put on a play from Schaffner's capacious oeuvre.
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Nevertheless, amateur reviews on sites like Yelp do play an important role in the restaurant industry, and there are plenty of well-intentioned people who actually provide decent feedback.
In the pro-am format, Montgomerie is playing with his brother Douglas and Ryder Cup hero Graeme McDowell, while Italian brothers Edoardo and Francesco Molinari play in the same fourball alongside amateur partner Gianfranco Zola, the former West Ham manager and Chelsea striker.
Yet the theremin appeals to amateur musicians who think it's easy to play.
From his first U.S. amateur title in 1994 to last weekend's Match Play win, the superlatives about Tiger Woods continue to mount and mount.
He knew the game from playing on the street, at rec centers and even on an Amateur Athletic Union travel team, but that was all about individual play.
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Play expects Amorphium to appeal to a wide range of users: amateur artists, graphics professionals who aren't experienced with 3D tools, and animators who'd like to add another tool to their arsenal.
But recently he got a phone call asking him to play in a Sevens tournament in Bulgaria with some old friends from the amateur era, and having caught the bug again, played in another one a couple of weeks later.
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The presentation party on the day included 16-year-old Italian Matteo Manassero, the 2009 British amateur champion, and American Michelle Wie, who said it would be a "dream" to play in the Olympics.
About 12 years ago she acted on her dream of learning to play the cello (she had been proficient on the piano) and now is a member of two amateur orchestras and a string quartet.
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