• The 1972 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship was the ninth World Match Play Championship. It was played from Thursday 12 to Saturday 14 October on...
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  • Volvo World Match Play Championship was an annual match play men's professional golf tournament which was staged from 1964 to 2014. The World Match Play Championship...
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  • The 1971 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship was the eighth World Match Play Championship. It was played from Thursday 7 to Saturday 9 October on...
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  • The 1973 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship was the tenth World Match Play Championship. It was played from Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 October on...
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  • the East course at Wentworth, just before the Piccadilly World Match Play Championship which was played on the West Course there. Carreras withdrew their...
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  • in the early part of his professional career including the Piccadilly PGA Close Championship in 1968. He represented Great Britain twice in the Ryder Cup...
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  • Tom Weiskopf (category Winners of men's major golf championships)
    rankings. This was to remain his only major championship victory but he was runner-up at The Masters in 1969, 1972, 1974, and 1975, and had a T2 finish at...
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  • the Piccadilly Fourball Match Play in 1968 and the Irish PGA Championship in 1970, the same year that he finished eighth in the Open Championship. He...
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  • Tournament and the Piccadilly Medal later in the season. He played Eric Brown in the final of the Piccadilly Medal, Brown conceding the match at the 34th hole...
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  • Association, and originally called the British PGA Championship. The BMW PGA Championship has usually been played each May, on the weekend of the UK's Spring...
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    Bob Charles (golfer) (category Winners of men's major golf championships)
    wins, Charles won 9 times in Europe, including the 1969 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship, and 25 times in domestic New Zealand tournaments. He also...
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  • Opens (1964, 1968, 1971, 1975, 1976 and 1978) and the Piccadilly World Match Play Championship in 1970. From 1963 to 1977, Nicklaus won the Tournament...
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    Lee Trevino (category Winners of men's major golf championships)
    1972 Open Championship. Trevino was also invited to play at the very prestigious (though unofficial) Piccadilly World Match Play Championship three times...
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    Joe Davis (category Winners of the professional snooker world championship)
    played in the World Snooker Championship but he participated in other tournaments and exhibition matches until 1964, winning four News of the World Snooker...
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    Gary Player (category Winners of men's major golf championships)
    Australian Open (7). He held the record for most victories in the World Match Play Championship, with five wins, from 1973 until 1991 when this feat was equalled...
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    1969 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship, where he lost 6&5 to Bob Charles. In 1971 Bembridge had his first important British stroke-play victory...
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    Tony Jacklin (category Winners of men's major golf championships)
    the PGA Championship, which was played the week after the Open. In October Jacklin made his debut in the Piccadilly World Match Play Championship, losing...
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  • singles matches he halved his match against Arnold Palmer and beat Gardner Dickinson. He played on the European Tour from 1972 to 1977 and was twice a runner-up...
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  • the World Match Play, losing 3&2 to Neil Coles. Coles and Butler received invitations to the inaugural Piccadilly World Match Play Championship. Butler...
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    Jack Nicklaus (category Winners of men's major golf championships)
    went on to capture the Piccadilly World Match Play Championship in 1970 with a 2 & 1 win over Lee Trevino in the championship match. In all for the year...
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  • only played in the Masters Tournament and The Open Championship.   Top 10   Did not play CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1970 and 1972 Open...
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    Hale Irwin (category Winners of men's major golf championships)
    Open, which he only told his wife about. Irwin won the Piccadilly World Match Play Championship at Wentworth Club in 1974 and 1975. He missed out on a...
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  • the Piccadilly Medal, was third three times and had a total of eleven top-ten finishes including being tied for 7th place in the Open Championship. Hunt...
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    James Hunt (category British Formula Three Championship drivers)
    1973 to 1979. Nicknamed "The Shunt", Hunt won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1976 with McLaren, and won 10 Grands Prix across seven seasons...
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  • Brian Huggett (category Winners of senior major golf championships)
    the World Match Play. He took Harry Vardon Trophy for leading the Order of Merit and played in the 1968 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship, losing...
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  • Tournament, Piccadilly Medal 1965 Silentnight Tournament (tie with Dave Thomas) 1968 Carroll's International 1969 Irish PGA Championship 1970 Turnberry-B...
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    Omar Sharif (category Short description matches Wikidata)
    In 1970, Sharif and the circus went to London's famous Piccadilly Hotel for an 80-rubber match against British experts Jeremy Flint and Jonathan Cansino...
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    Sam Torrance (category Short description matches Wikidata)
    (0–1) 1972 Lord Derby's Under-25 Match Play Championship, Radici Open (Italy) 1975 Scottish Uniroyal Tournament 1978 Scottish Professional Championship 1979...
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  • Rangers F.C. (category Short description matches Wikidata)
    were 5–1 up as the match entered the last few minutes, but with Celtic 4–0 up at Rugby Park and still playing, they knew the championship was not yet theirs...
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    made mandatory for use in the 2009 U.S. and World Monopoly Championship, as well as the 2015 World Championship. Parker Brothers and its licensees have also...
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