Every Tuesday for the last three weeks the 40 pupils at Swell Primary School in Stow-on-the-Wold have walked to the Golden Ball Inn for a pub lunch.

BBC: Stow-on-the-Wold schoolchildren go to local pub for lunch

That wasn't just the golden age of golf-course design, it was also the golden age of golf-ball names.

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In the second round of the NCAA tournament, Davidson was leading Marquette by a point when it lost the ball out of bounds against the Golden Eagles press.

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Surrey elected to bat, but Jonathan Batty's golden duck to Tremlett from the fourth ball of the match meant Ramprakash was at the crease earlier than expected, and needed 18 balls to get off the mark.

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His first ride in the Derby came nine years ago when he finished seventh on Golden Ball.

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And the next ball was too much for Hoggard, bowled for a golden duck.

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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave Mr Obama a ball signed by the 2011 Toronto Raptors professional basketball team, as well as a "golden-framed 19th Century antique map of North America, surrounded by drawings of North American Indians, beavers".

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