On the European Tour, Sweden's Christian Nilsson shot a round of 65 to lead the Alstom Open de France after the first round at Le Golf National near Paris -- Ryder Cup host in 2018.
Only 19% of all golfers are women, according to the National Golf Foundation.
The rest of the games feature the Augusta National Golf Club and its iconic yellow flag.
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Since 2000, according to the National Golf Foundation, the number of players has barely risen.
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Woods ran into trouble at the 2009 Barclays at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, N.
It happened again Tuesday during Watson's news conference at Augusta National Golf Club.
Mr. Herbert was one of the founding members of the nearby Augusta National Golf Club, where the Masters Tournament is played.
Augusta National Golf Club learned of the violation by a television viewer.
"As an industry, we are getting stepped on unfairly here, " says Jeff Calderwood, chief executive of the National Golf Course Owners Association Canada.
With little fanfare, and on its own terms, Augusta National Golf Club admitted Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore as members on Monday.
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There's also a cooking school, the 1849 homestead of Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low and a jaunt to the Augusta National Golf Club.
Who can forget the look on Greg Norman's face as he walked off the 18th green at Augusta National Golf Club on Apr. 14, 1996?
Augusta National Golf Club in 2013 still clicks to yesterday's clock.
He also kept from his three buddies the news that his dog had eaten their perhaps once-in-a-lifetime chance to traverse the greens of Augusta National Golf Club.
Neither will you find Green Jacket, Amen Corner, Crow's Nest, Augusta National Golf Club or usually even Augusta, the public-domain city in Georgia where the tournament takes place.
"What Guan did at the Masters, in my view, was very, very dangerous, " said Henry Brunton, the former national golf coach of Canada and an expert on golf development.
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And though we haven't succeeded yet, we won't stop until females are treated equally in corporate-supported venues like Augusta National Golf Club, or until those companies are shamed into pulling support.
That same year, Fireman opened Liberty National Golf Course.
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Wyman , former chief executive officer of CBS TV, became the first member of the Augusta National Golf Club to resign in protest over the club's refusal to admit a woman member.
"When you play at the weekend with your friends in a fourball, no cards are required to be returned, " said Richard Muckart, chairman of the Council of National Golf Unions, or CONGU, which runs the program.
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As a first step, Romney and Santorum both expressed the same position as Obama when asked Thursday about whether women should be able to join the all-male Augusta National Golf Club, site of the Masters tournament.
The 37-year-old was two shots adrift of overnight leader Woods but kept his cool to card 70 to the American's 75 to win by three on the final green at the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota.
That chat, and the extra putting practice, should continue to pay dividends this week at the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club, where Woods is poised to resume his quest for a 15th major championship (18 will tie Jack Nicklaus's record).
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In the 10 years since that original protest, the council and our allies also continued to challenge exclusion of women not only at Augusta National Golf Club, but also everywhere women are left out when important business contacts and deals are made.
In a coincidental twist, just before our list came out Augusta National Golf Club announced earlier this week that it is admitting former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore to the club, thus ending its males-only policy.
Pak Se Ri's victory in the U.S. Women's Open in July made her a star on the professional golf circuit and a national heroine in Korea.
We have the World Cups from this year until 2014, alongside major UK sporting landmarks like the FA Cup, Wimbledon, the Grand National and Open Golf.
The big argument over female members at Augusta National was never about golf.
Augusta National is famous for running its golf tournament differently than any other tournament.
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