But I also liked the story because I like golf and, in particular, major championship golf.
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After McIlroy's amazing display, there have now been 24 rounds of 63 in major championship history.
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No doubt, it just gave me more belief that I am good enough to win a major championship.
With the 2013 Masters just weeks away, Mr. Woods is still chasing his first major championship since June 2008.
It was Spain's first major championship win since 1964, and it was unexpected.
It is golf's final major championship of the year and it'll be played at the Medinah Golf Club outside Chicago.
Poulter was named by Forbes as one of the best active golfers who has yet to win a major championship.
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With a one-stroke lead, he was trying to hit a scramble shot to save par and win his first major championship.
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Giggs had two close shots at major championship qualification - one of which was the Euro 2004 play-off defeat to Russia.
"It's a strange way to make up a field for a major championship - TV rights, " said the Scot, who failed to qualify.
"Spain are out-and-out favourites, " explained Motherwell boss Brown, who was in charge when Scotland last reached a major championship - the 1998 World Cup.
At 48, Hopkins is not only still fighting, he's trying to break his own record as the oldest boxer to win a major championship.
The world No.2 is seeking to complete a career slam with victory at Roland Garros -- the only major championship she is yet to win.
He has won 32 times around the world, but has yet to capture a major championship (he was runner-up at both the Masters and British Open this year).
"Steph is great at taking everything in her stride and she has already made a major championship (the 2008 Olympics) so things are looking very good, " added Pavey.
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.
Roddick, who captured the U.S. Open in 2003, is the last American to win a major championship, and the last American to be ranked number one on the ATP computer.
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"In recent years we have been the most lucrative major championship in dollar terms but with the shift in the exchange rate that may be difficult to sustain, " said Hill.
Giggs, who openly admits his desire to manage his country one day, has enjoyed a trophy-laden playing career but his one regret is not guiding Wales to a major championship finals.
For the last 13 years, Great Britain have never been out of the top five at a major Championship - an impressive record but without ever quite managing to win at world level.
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Golf's first major championship of the year gets underway today with Phil Mickelson defending the title he won a year ago, and most eyes on Tiger Woods, who won the last two majors of 2006.
McIlroy chalked it up to rustiness and said he hoped that intensive practice with his new clubs would ready him for an assault on the Masters at Augusta, the first major championship of the year.
With a par putt in sudden death play of the final round of the 2012 Masters Tournament, Watson not only won his first major championship, but opened up the floodgates for endorsers seeking to partner with him.
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Watson, who will defend his Masters title when the first major championship of 2013 gets underway in April, is on seven-under, four off the lead, but says Johnson is in top form going into the last day.
Turner Sports will provide extensive multiplatform coverage for all four rounds of the 92nd PGA Championship, live from Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wis. from Aug. 12-15, with television, online and mobile access to the year's final major championship.
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Whitaker, winner of 14 major championship medals, including Olympic silver at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, pulled both his entered horses, Ingliston Twister and VIking V, from Hickstead's Queen Elizabeth II Cup and the Speed Classic on Saturday.
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Yang Yong-eun became the first Asian man to win a U.S. major championship after he overhauled Tiger Woods to take the PGA Championship in 2009, but the men's game hasn't seen the same Korean surge as in women's golf.
Now at his 10th major championship, Malcolm's only individual major medal outdoors was a silver on his senior major championship debut at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur - just a month after his world junior sprint championship double.
Bidding to become the first man in tennis history to win eight titles at the same major championship, Nadal won 6-4 6-1 6-3 against 13th seed Kei Nishikori, the first Japanese man in the fourth round since Fumiteru Nakano in 1938.
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