The County Championship player of the year award went to Chris Rogers for the second season in succession after another prolific campaign which saw the Australian left-hander score 1243 runs at an average of 56.50.
Bothroyd was a surprise inclusion, but should he feature in a team where the emphasis appears to be firmly on youth he would become the first Championship player to receive a cap since David Nugent, then of Preston, scored in a 3-0 win over Andorra in Barcelona in March 2007.
The youngest to ever compete in the PGA Championship: Japanese player, Ryo Ishikawa, who played the 2 009 tournament.
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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.
Love entered the US PGA Tour record books as the only player in the history of the Players Championship to go from first to missing the cut.
It was initially expected that he would miss the first three games of the championship, but the Bath player has said there is a chance he could be fit again in time to face Italy at Twickenham on 12 February.
In the 2009 world championship, a young Norwegian player paved the way to victory at precisely the moment when defeat stared him in the face.
Even though the 2001 American League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award was the only major award that Pettitte had ever won, he did lead the American and National Leagues in select categories throughout his career.
Bradley's victory at the U.S. PGA Championship saw him join Ben Curtis and Francis Ouimet as only the third player in golf to have won on their major championship debut.
At the age of 17 years and two days, the Swansea seamer became the youngest player ever to take seven wickets in the County Championship.
Higginson is only the second unranked player, after Terry Griffiths in the 1979 World Championship, to appear in the final of a ranking event.
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And if she wins, as expected, she will join Mickey Wright as the only other player in LPGA history to win the Samsung World Championship five times.
Still, Rose is the only British player to advance to the 30-man Tour Championship, with Luke Donald and Ian Poulter eliminated, Donald by the smallest of margins.
Doherty is the only non-British player other than Cliff Thorburn to win the World Championship but lost in last year's qualifiers to end a 15-year run at Sheffield's famous snooker venue.
Robinson took it a step further and won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award as the Orioles won their first world championship in a four game sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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At age 13, Wie became the youngest player to make an LPGA cut at the 2003 Kraft Nabisco Championship, and went on to make the cut at the U.S. Women's Open later the same year.
The fourth-placed Championship club will have to pay half of the player's wages but the two clubs are not thought to have yet spoken about the intricate details of the deal.
The former Falcons academy player, 25, has been a key figure for the Championship side and the new Falcons coach Tait is delighted with his return to the North East.
Kampamba scored the second goal in Zambia's 2-1 win over Lesotho in the quarter-final of the annual southern African championship in June and was the only foreign-based player named in a 20-man squad by Brouwer earlier this week.
Despite standing down as manager in November 2004, with the Gills second from bottom of the Championship, he remained at the club as a player.
One of the transgressors just happened to be his star quarterback, the only player that was absolutely necessary to championship opportunities.
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James won the championship in 1994 as a player with Thames Valley but said winning the title as a coach is a better feeling.
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In four of the past five years, the player who won the second of the semifinals has finished on top in the championship match.
Davies' most memorable period as a Wales player was in the memorable 2004 European Championship qualifying campaign when he scored three goals in three successive games - including a strike in Wales' 2-1 win over Italy in 2002.
The last player to be penalized at a major was Gregory Bourdy in the 2010 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.
Feng, who became the first Chinese player to win an LPGA Tour event and a major when she captured the LPGA Championship last year, gave credit to Webb.
Petersburg defender Domenico Criscito would not be in Italy's European Championship squad after it emerged the player was being investigated.
This year the 23-year-old took the player of the tournament award as he led DR Congo to victory at the African Nations Championship.
But Prince is likely to feature in at least the first five Championship matches for Lancashire - possibly more - and cricket director Mike Watkinson hopes the player will have the same early impact as in 2009.
"I didn't want to go out of the Championship, " added the Northern Ireland player.
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