Going on a first aid course can equip you with the knowledge and confidence to deal with many emergency situations.
And the first Ryder Cup staged at a purpose-built course will unfortunately be remembered as the first to need a fourth day because of a sodden course.
He set up a number of challenges (three of which have since been claimed) each with a financial reward reflecting their difficulty: The first to fly a figure-eight course around two markers half a mile apart, the first to fly from England to France and a world speed challenge.
You may well have read about this, but there, among the machair grass and sand dunes, they are recreating a golf course first designed by the father of golf, Old Tom Morris.
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Beyond the opponents, surprises always come up south of the border for the U.S. This day it was a field with grass as long as the first cut on a golf course, which made hitting crisp passes across the ground difficult.
Unless they play the same course all the time, or take caddies, golfers are always disadvantaged by a lack of knowledge and distance, especially when playing a course for the first time.
It is an unenviable dilemma for a President who in his first term tended to steer a middle course on climate and energy issues, sometimes supporting the environmental argument sometimes supporting the economic rationale.
Each state has different requirements, but generally a first-time hunter must complete a safety education course in order to purchase a permit.
Garrett Riekhof, a Higginsville farmer and 2003 Missouri graduate who took the class a decade ago, said the course marked the first time he took a hard look at the business side of his family's operation.
But they are also rare: the completion rate for the first MOOC, a course on artificial intelligence offered by Stanford in 2011, was 13 percent.
Next fall, the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business will provide a required course to teach first-year students how to view business issues in a global context.
The first course, a lush soup of cumin-roasted mushrooms, red lentils and cilantro, set the stage for the entire meal of creative, richly flavoured cooking, with a subtle use of spice.
West Indies look on course for a first-innings lead after Sarwan and captain Chris Gayle went on to dominate, finishing the second day on 160 for one, a deficit of just 158.
It means that universities will be funded for an unlimited number of students with these grades, which is meant to make it easier for talented students to get a place on their first choice course.
In Qatar, the first course of a British-run staff college is due to begin this September and Kuwait has just chosen the UK to help run its own equivalent of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.
They indicate the minimum score on each of the four subject tests for a student who has a 75% chance of earning a grade of C or higher or a 50% chance of earning a B or higher in a typical first-year college course.
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There is a stamp club, and a minigolf course, where the obstacle on the first hole isn't a windmill but a blue mail collection box.
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Young Enoch won a free place to Trinity College, Cambridge, took prize after prize in classical studies and, of course, gained a first.
They shared the idea with two of their professors, Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria, and found that the ethos of management-as-profession had been a founding concept of the first MBA course at HBS in 1908.
But a first group of five courses on the Coursera platform, including a genetics course from Duke University and algebra at University of California, Irvine, have been recommended for accreditation.
President Obama seems to hope he can achieve a historic Middle East settlement within his first term and this ambitious goal puts him on a collision course with Mr Netanyahu's government, our correspondent says.
Of course, awareness is a first step.
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Rosie Jones is third in the 20-player field at 10-under 134, a stroke better than first-round leader Michele Redman, who matched the course record on Thursday with a 65.
In October, Rose again came close to a first US Tour victory at the Disney Classic in Florida - having opened with a course record, again he slid back to fourth.
Deciding who is and is not a dominant male is the first question, of course.
If found to be infected, they would be put immediately onto a course of what are known as first-line antiretroviral drugs (ARVs).
Ireland are not sending a long course team to Lausanne but the first two in this weekend's 12K event in Wicklow will earn selection for the World Cross Country.
We do have to make a couple of assumptions of course, the first being that the European Union has got its science right, the second that they have got their costs right.
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This is the first time SAS has supported a massive online course using SAS On Demand, its free offering, said Jerry Oglesby, senior director for global academic and certification programs at the company.
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Wilde is of course not the first to launch a conscious commerce fashion product.
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