• The Harry Vardon Trophy is a golf award presented by the European Tour. Since 2009 it has been awarded to the winner of the Race to Dubai. Before then...
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    natural talent for the sport as a young caddie in his teens. Harry and his brother Tom Vardon, younger by two years and also interested in golf, were very...
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  • The Vardon Trophy was awarded by the PGA of America to the PGA Tour's leader in scoring average. When the award was first given in 1937, it was awarded...
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  • took over as the professional at South Herts Golf Club in 1946. Like Harry Vardon before him, he remained in the position until he died in 1983. Rees won...
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  • created the European Tour. As the tournament circuit grew, in 1937 the Harry Vardon Trophy was created to be awarded to the member of the PGA with the best...
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  • circuit from 1969 to 1974, winning 10 tournaments and taking the Harry Vardon Trophy for heading the Order of Merit for four consecutive seasons from...
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  • until 1972.) He finished 1969 as Order of merit winner earning the Harry Vardon Trophy. He accumulated ten wins on the European Tour between 1974 and 1984...
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    his position at the top of the rankings. It was also his fourth Harry Vardon Trophy win. McIlroy started off the year by winning the Hero Dubai Desert...
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  • the 1937 Harry Vardon Trophy standings together with Percy Alliss who had won the 1937 News of the World Matchplay. The Harry Vardon Trophy standings...
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  • professional, he had one exceptional year, 1967, when he won the Harry Vardon Trophy and played in the Ryder Cup, but had only limited success afterwards...
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  • the British PGA circuit in the pre-European Tour era and won the Harry Vardon Trophy for lowest stroke average in 1952 and 1956. He finished in the top-10...
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    playoff. That same year, he was also awarded the European Tour's Harry Vardon Trophy for winning the Race to Dubai. He also won the 2011 WGC-HSBC Champions...
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  • the formal start of the European Tour in 1972. In 1968 he won the Harry Vardon Trophy for leading the Order of Merit and he was in third place in 1969...
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    a row he won the belt outright, necessitating the need for a new trophy. Harry Vardon holds the record for the most Open Championship victories, winning...
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  • Edith Cummings Munson Golf Award Dinah Shore Trophy Award Jack Nicklaus Award - given to the best NCAA Division I golf player Claret Jug Wanamaker Trophy...
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    at their home in 2000, aged 80 and 40 respectively. Winner of the Harry Vardon Trophy in 1946, 1950, and 1954. In 1977, Locke was elected to the World...
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  • International and the Daks Tournament, both joint wins. Coles won the 1963 Harry Vardon Trophy ahead of Bernard Hunt, despite Hunt having a lower stroke average...
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  • make their way home proudly carrying the U.S. Open trophy. The epilogue explains that Harry Vardon went on to win his sixth British Open Championship...
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  • Thomas Lyte (category Sports trophies and awards)
    and silverware, sporting trophies and leather accessories. The company has designed, made or restored many well known trophies and medals, such as the...
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    in 1932 and 1937. He won 30 PGA Tour titles in all and the inaugural Vardon Trophy in 1937; his 30 titles were a record for PGA Tour players born outside...
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    again losing in the first round. In June 1923 Cotton won the Hutchings Trophy, the Championship of the Aquarius Club. Cotton left school in the summer...
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  • important British tournaments, third in another, finished second in the Harry Vardon Trophy standings (the Order of Merit) and won the Irish Professional Championship...
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  • restarted in 1949 and Alliss finished tied for 2nd place, five strokes behind Harry Weetman, 10 years his senior. From June 1949 to June 1951, Alliss served...
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  • finish, the tournament marked the final event for the first Harry Vardon Trophy. The trophy was decided by the average score in the 7 leading stroke play...
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  • 1978 (when he was 53), and was twice (1961 and 1962) recipient of the Vardon Trophy for leading the British Tour's Order of Merit. In the 1966 Carroll's...
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  • non-playing captain in 1949. In 1937 Whitcombe was the first winner of the Harry Vardon Trophy, which was presented to the player with the best average in the major...
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  • Cricket Australia commissioned the trophy, it asked Murali to clarify how his name should be spelled, and the trophy uses his preferred romanization. Lists...
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    Woodhall Spa Golf Club (category Golf clubs and courses designed by Harry Vardon)
    ‘The Hotchkin’, which opened in 1905 and was originally laid out by Harry Vardon before being redesigned by Stafford Vere Hotchkin in the 1920s, and ‘The...
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    has hosted over 40 IGF or EGA events starting with the 1962 St Andrews Trophy at Halmstad GC. Qualification event for the Junior Solheim Cup: Annika Invitational...
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  • International Cup (representing Australia): 1952, 1954 (winners) Slazenger Trophy (representing British Commonwealth and Empire): 1956 Vicars Shield (representing...
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