Add to that all the usual ingredients of a USGA-prepared course - tight fairways, thick rough and small, quick greens - and you have the ultimate test in professional golf.

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After racing on a tight, 2.36-mile street course, IndyCar's next race is on an oval at Texas Motor Speedway.

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With just one week to go in the 1992 general election, Labour was on course to win power in a tight race.

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Not surprisingly given its designer, Carton is a shot-maker's course with its fairways not overly tight but rewarding of well-shaped shots which demand accuracy.

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Of course the best feature of Siri is its tight integration with other applications such as the address book and calendar.

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He said employability programmes had to adopt the mindset of providing other support to enable young people to stay on a course, to in effect "broaden the tight rope" young people were on "to the size of a plank".

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Following the pair around the Quail Hollow course in Charlotte, it was obvious they share a tight bond.

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Grading on the course has begun, but much work remains and financing is tight.

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Given the testing conditions at the West Sussex course (several horses had already come a cropper around the famously tight right-hand bend), this was never going to be a procession on the scale of the 11-length drubbing Frankel handed out at Royal Ascot back in June.

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