The British Open Championship in golf began in 1860, Association football championships in 1871, cricket championships in 1873.
He also coaches the high-goal team Zacara, winner of the British Open Championship in 2011, and tutors Guards members.
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However, Oosthuizen's stop-start career continued as he failed to play in a major after missing the cuts for the Masters, the British Open and the PGA Championship in 2009.
As the U.S. economy fattened on the strength of an illusory real-estate boom, Woods was ascendant on the golf course and seemingly off of it too a fourth Masters in 2005, wins at the PGA Championship and the British Open in 2006, a fourth PGA Championship in 2007 and a third U.S. Open in 2008, plus a beautiful wife and a baby girl.
The BMW International Open kicks off a series of lucrative events that includes the British Open, the PGA Championship and runs through the Ryder Cup 19-21 September.
The Swindon golfer lost play-offs for the British Masters and Irish Open before finishing fourth in the BMW Championship.
The task that awaited him at the 1970 US Open was a greater one - no British player had won the championship for half a century.
While Harrington may not necessarily be ready to unleash the eye-catching swing when he goes in search of his third consecutive British Open Championship title at Turnberry, Scotland next month, the technique may still have a place in the game.
He had been out of action for two months prior to the British Open, initially suffering the injuries at the Masters in April before withdrawing after nine holes of the Players Championship at Sawgrass in mid-May.
This year, she was second behind Annika Sorenstam in the LPGA Championship and tied for third in the Women's British Open.
The 2011 PGA Championship winner Keegan Bradley, his fellow American Jason Dufner and 2010 British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen are tied on level par.
He has won 32 times around the world, but has yet to capture a major championship (he was runner-up at both the Masters and British Open this year).
World number one Lorena Ochoa, who is seeking her third straight major title after winning the Kraft Nabisco Championship earlier this year and last year's women's British Open, posted a 69 to lie three shots off the lead.
He pulled out of the Honda Classic in March with pneumonia, but was ninth at the British Open and then claimed third place in this month's U.S. PGA Championship to move back up to 26th in the rankings.
The former world No. 1 had already announced that he will miss this week's British Open championship at Sandwich, England, because of injuries to his left leg.
The 2014 British Open will be played at Royal Liverpool (Hoylake), where Tiger won in 2006, and the 2014 PGA Championship will be played at Valhalla, where Tiger won in 2000.
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