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An assortment of Golfing Lists that don't fit into any other category.

Olympic Games

Golf was first held at the 1900 Paris Olympics and again at St. Louis in 1904. It was scheduled for London 1908 but was cancelled on Saturday 30 May, just two days before the competition was due to start because the BOA had received just one official entry, that of the reigning champion George Lyon of Canada. Golf’s scheduled re-appearance at the 1920 Antwerp Games was also cancelled. It was not until 2009 that the IOC made the decision to re-instate golf into the official programme from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

The 2020 Olympics were held in 2021 because if the COVID pandemic

Leading Medal-Winning Nations

Medals	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze
12	USA	6	2	4
4	Great Britain	1	2	1
3	New Zealand	1	1	1
2	Japan	0	1	2
2	China	0	0	3

In addition to those shown above, the only other countries to have won gold medals are Canada (1904) and South Korea (2016)

The leading Individual medallists are:
Women: 3 - Lydia Ko (New Zealand) Gold 2024, Silver 2016, Bronze 2020.
Men:2 - Chandler Egan (USA) Gold 1904, Silver 1904
Egan won the team gold and individual silver. He also won the non-medal driving competition in 1904.

There were two non-medal events in 1900 - Individual Handicap, and a Professionl Individual event. There were nine non-medal events in 1904 including driving and putting contests.

All the Men's Medallists

Year	Gold (Country)	Score	Silver (Country)	Score	Bronze (Country)	Score
1900	Charles Sands (USA)	167	Walter Rutherford (GBR)	168	David Robertson (GBR)	175
1904	George Lyon (Canada)	3&2	Chandler Egan (USA)		Burt McKinnie (USA & Frank Newton (USA)
2016	Justin Rose (GBR)	268	Henrik Stenson (Sweden)	270	Matt Kuchar (USA)	271
2020	Xander Schauffele (USA)	266	Rory Sabbatini (Slovakia)	267	C. T. Pan * (Chinese Taipei)	269
2024	Scottie Scheffler (USA)	265	Tommy Fleetwood (GBR)	266	Hideki Matsuyama (Japan)	267

1904 played under match-play conditions | * won play-off for bronze medal

Ther was also an official Men’s Team Event in 1904. It consisted of three teams of 10 players (all from the USA), and each team member played two18-hole rounds with aggregate scores deciding the team winners.
Chandler Egan’s total of 165 was the lowest of the 30 competing golfers.Thee final positions were
Gold: Western Golf Association 1,749 points
Silver: Trans-Mississippi Golf Association 1,770 points
Bronze: United States Golf Association 1,839 points

All the Women's Medallists

Year	Gold (Country)	Score	Silver (Country)	Score	Bronze (Country)	Score
1900	Margaret Abbott (USA)	47	Polly Whittier (Switzerland)	49	Abbie Platt (France)	53
2016	Inbee Park (South Korea	268	Lydia Ko (New Zealand)	273	Shanshan Feng (China)	274
2020	Nelly Korda (USA)	267	Mone Inami (Japan) *	268	Lydia Ko (New Zealand)	268
2024	Lydia Ko (New Zealand)	278	Esther Henseleit (Germany)	280	Xiyu Lin (China)	281

† 1900 was played over just 9 holes | * won play-off for silver medal.

Lowest 18 Hole Totals

Men

Women

Score	Golfer (Country)	Year	Score	Golfer (Country)	Year
61	Rory Sabbatini (Slovakia)	2020	62	Maria Verchenova (Russia)	2016
62	Scottie Scheffler (USA)	2024	62	Nelly Korda (USA)	2020
62	Nicolai Højgaard (Denmark)	2024	63	Stacy Lewis (USA)	2016
			63	Emily Pedersen (Denmark)	2024

Royal Golf Courses

The world´s first golf club or society to be granted Royal patronage was the Perth Golfing Society by King William IV in 1833. The Perth Society had its patronage bestowed upon them a year before the more illustrious Royal and Ancient at St Andrews.

While the British Monarchy is responsible for bestowing the title on more than 75 golf clubs and societies, not all are in Britain or traditional Commonwealth countries, but have extended to other countries including the Czech Republic and Germany. The Homburger Golf Club at Bad Hamburg, Germany was the last club to receive the honour from HRH Queen Elizabeth II, in 2013.

Monarchs from other countries have created “Royal” golf clubs and societies within their own country, with Spain and Belgium being the most prevalent.

The first Courses to Received Roya Patrinage by the British Monarch

Year Bestowed	Course	Location
1833	Royal Perth	Perth, Scotland
1834	Royal and Ancient	St Andrews, Scotland
1845	Royal Montrose	Montrose, Scotland
1845	Royal Blackheath	Eltham, England
1867	Royal North Devon	Westward Ho! England
1871	Royal Liverpool	Hoylake, England
1876	Royal Musselburgh	Prestonpans, Scotland
1879	Royal Jersey	Grouville, Jersey
1882	Royal Wimbledon	Wimbledon, England
1882	Royal Isle of Wight	St. Helen’s, Isle of Wight

The first two on the above list were granted patronage by King William IV while the others were granted by Queen Victoria.

The first Royal Golf Cubs in other selected countries:
Austraia – Royal Melbourne, 1895
Canada – Royal Montréal, Île-Bizard, Montréal, 1884
Ireland – Royal Dublin, 1891
Northen Ireland – Royal Belfast, 1885
Wales – Royal St. David´s, Harlech, 1908

Of all the ten courses currently on the British Open rota, only Turnberry, Muirfield, and Carnoustie do not have Royal patronage.

World’s Oldest Current 18-Hole Golf Courses

Year	Course	Location
1857	St Andrews (Old Course) *	St Andrews, Ffe, Scotland
1863	Montrose North Links	Montrose, Angus, Scotland
1868	Leven Links and Lundin Links	Leven, Fife, Scotland
1869	Royston	Royston, Hertfordshire, England
1871	Wimbledon Common	Wimbledon, Greater London, England
1871	Hoylake	Merseyside, England
1871	Forfar	Forfar, Angus, Scotland
1872	Old Luffness	Aberlady Bay, East Lothian, Scotland
1873	Carnoustie	Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland
1874	Westward Ho!	Westward Ho! Devon, England

* St Andrews was a 10-hole course at the time and used holes No.2-9 twice, to make a total of 18 holes

World’s Oldest Known Golf Clubs *

Year Formed	Club	Location
1735	Royal Burgess Golfing Society	Edinburgh
1744	The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers (Muirfield)	Gullane, East Lothian
1754	Royal and Ancient	St Andrews
1761	Bruntsfield Links	Edinburgh
1766	Royal Blackheath	Eltham
1774	Royal Musselburgh	Prestonpans, East Lothian
1770	Fraserbugh	Aberdeenshire
1780	Royal Aberdeen	Aberdeen
1786	Crail Golfing Society	Fife
1787	Glasgow Golf Club	Dumbartonshire & Fife †

* with continuous existence | All the above except Royal Blackheath (England) are in Scotland.

† Like many Scottish golf clubs, the Glasgow club has two courses but uniquely one is at Bearsden, Dumbartonshire and the other at Irvine, Ayrshire. They are approximately nine and 35 km from Glasgow respectively.

Oldest Known Golf Clubs in Other Selected Countries

British Isles

Country	Club/Location	Year formed
Channel Islands	Royal Jersey, Grouville	1878
Ireland	Royal Curragh, Co. Kildare	1858
Northern Ireland	Royal Belfast, Belfast	1881
Wales	Pontnewydd, Cwmbran *	1875

* There is no documented evidence to back up the claim of Pontnewydd being the oldest golf club in Wales but there is evidence that the Tenby Golf Club was formed in 1888 althugh golf was played in the area in the 1870s.

Europe

Austria	Golf Club Wien, Vienna	1901
Belgium	Royal Antwerp Golf Club, Antwerp	1888
Denmark	Royal Copenhagen Golf Club, Dyrehaven, Copenhagen	1898
France	Pau Golf Club, Billère, Pau	1856
	The oldest golf club in Europe
Germany	Hamburger Golf-Club, Falkenstein, Hamburg	1906
Italy	Circolo del Golf Roma Acquasanta, Rome	1903
Netherlands	Royal Hague Golf & Country Club, Wassenaar, Den Haag	1893
Norway	Oso Golf Club, Oslo	1924
Portugal	Oporto Golf Club, Espinho	1890
Russia	Moscow Country Club Golf Club, Moscow	1993
Spain	Real Club de Golf de Las Palmas, Gran Canaria	1891
Sweden	Göteborgs Golf Klubb, Gothenburg	1902
Switzerland	Engadine Golf Club, Samedan	1893

Norh America

Country	Club	Year formed
Canada	Royal Montreal, Montreal	1873
USA	St Andrews, Yonkers, New York	1888
	St Andrews is the oldest golf club in the USA with continuous existence. However, there are claims there being older clubs, notably from Savannah Golf Club, Georgia (1794), and South Carolina Charleston (1794, or before).

Central American & The Caribbean

Mexico	Club de Golf Santa Gertrudis, Veracruz	1894
Jamaica	Manchester Golf Club, Mandeville	1865
Trinidad & Tobago	St.Andrews Golf Club, Maraval, Port of Spain	1891

South America

Argentina	San Andres Golf Club, San Martin, Buenos Aires	1892
Bolivia	La Paz Golf Club, La Paz	1912
	Believed to be the world’s highest golf club above sea level at 3,246 metres (10,650 feet)
Brazil	São Paulo Golf Club, São Paulo	1901
Chile	Granadilla Golf Club, Viña del Mar	1897
Uruguay	Club de Golf del Cerro, Montevideo	1905

Africa

Egypt	Gezira Sporting Club, Cairo	1882
Kenya	Royal Nairobi Golf Club, Nairobi	1906
Mauritius	Gymkhana Club, Macoas-Phoenix	1844
	The Mauritius Gymkhana Club is the oldest golf cub in the Southern Hemisphere
Morocco	Tangier Country Club, Tangier	1897
Nigeria	Kano Golf Club, Kano	1908
South Africa	Royal Cape Golf Club, Cape Town	1885
Tunisia	Carthage Golf Club, La Soukra, Tunis	1927
Zimbabwe	Bulawayo Golf Club, Bulawayo	1895

Asia

Hong Kong	Royal Hong Kong Golf Club, Fanling	1889
India	Royal Calcutta Golf Club, Kolkata	1829
	Royal Calcutta is the oldest golf club outside the British Isles
Indonesia	Jakarta Golf Club, Jakarta	1872
Japan	Kobe Golf Club, Kobe	1903
Pakistan	Karachi Golf Club, Karachi	1888
Singapore	Singapore Island Country Club (originally the Farrer Park GC)	1891
Sri Lanka	Royal Colombo Golf Club, Colombo	1880
Turkey	Istanbul Golf Club, Istanbul	1895

Australasia

Australia	The Australian Golf Club, Sydney	1882
New Zealand	Otago Golf Club, Otago	1871

Other

United Arab Emirates	Emirates Golf Club, Dubai	1988
	The Emirates GC was the first grass corse although there was a 9-hole sand course at the Dubai Country Club frrom 1971.

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