Ko became the youngest player to win a professional tournament in January when still 14.
"For the last 17 years, I've been dreaming of watching her win a professional tournament, " he said.
Sixteen-year-old golf prodigy Michelle Wie is playing in her first professional tournament, the Samsung World Championship in Palm Desert, California.
McIlroy, 19, won his first professional tournament in Dubai on Sunday.
The 19-year-old McIlroy thrashed Tiger Woods' conqueror Tim Clark in his first professional tournament in the United States, but found 2006 champion Ogilvy a tougher test.
Ferguson, a 71-year-old Scotsman, won 38 trophies at United, earning 13 Premier League titles and twice triumphing in the UEFA Champions League, Europe's most glamorous professional tournament.
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Ryan Moore, in his first professional tournament, was tied for 51st place after ending his round with two birdies for a 72 that left him at six over.
Tiger Woods remained an amateur long enough to play golf for Stanford University, though he played in his first professional tournament, the Los Angeles Open, at the age of 16.
His 77th PGA Tour victory also marked his 99th professional tournament win as Woods, who has won the Masters on four occasions, prepares his bid to wear the famous green jacket for the first time since 2005.
McArthur also received two slots to play in Nationwide's Pro-Am golf tournament and 10 tickets to the Nationwide sponsored professional golf tournament.
He helped drive the team to win the 2011 Copa Libertadores, the foremost professional club tournament in South America.
At the time of his killing, the Mexican army, navy, and federal and state police were patrolling the area to beef up security for the Mexican Open professional tennis tournament.
They purchased the ATP Tour license from the Dutch Open and worked hard to gain government support for the country's first professional tennis tournament, which is run by Djokovic's uncle Goran.
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Allen made his professional debut in the tournament last year when he beat Steve Davis and John Higgins.
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The world's top 15 players would qualify automatically, and all major professional tours would alter tournament schedules to avoid a clash with the Olympics.
Burroughs has no affiliation with the NCAA tournament or professional basketball.
Fowler, who was the world's top amateur for 36 weeks, lost a playoff in his second tournament as a professional and has been runner-up three times on the main U.S. tour.
Compounding the difficulty of reaching the top level is that now there are scores of full-time, traveling, professional chair umpires who spend half the year hopping from tournament to tournament, though in his first year of professional umpiring, Kaufman says he was on the road for more than 40 weeks.
Tiger Woods' niece Cheyenne, who qualified for the tournament soon after turning professional, was tied for 55th on 75 in a group including Australia's former world No. 1 Karrie Webb -- a two-time winner of the tournament.
Despite the professional aura that surrounds the NCAA basketball tournament, sports fans prefer to maintain some semblance of amateurism, particularly when it comes to compensating the athletes that play big-time college sports.
Taylor, ranked number one in the Professional Darts Corporation, won his 21st tournament of 2009 and will now turn his attentions to claiming a 15th world title at the Alexandra Palace in December.
If he does play Down Under, he may have the chance to follow in the footsteps of New Zealand's Lydia Ko, who at the age of 14 this year became the youngest professional winner at a women's tournament in New South Wales.
But television changes sports, and the tournament did result in lasting changes to professional soccer.
Before becoming a billionaire, Lemann was a professional tennis player and even played in the prestigious Wimbledom tournament.
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All these sides suffered from too many star players injured or jaded by the ardors of the ever-lengthening European professional club season that ended barely two weeks before the tournament began.
In bridge, tournament prizes are nugatory even the best professional players typically earn a living by teaching, gambling, or by being sponsored to play with rich amateurs.
The Antrim professional will become the eighth Northern Irishman to play at the Crucible in Sheffield when the tournament begins on 21 April.
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For all the effort and sacrifice that went into the creation of at first five and then four professional teams, there has been nothing but disappointment in Europe's biggest cross-border tournament.
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