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  Harry Cooper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Harry Cooper (born August 6, 1904 - died October 17, 2000) was a prominent PGA Tour professional golfer of the 1920s and 1930s.
A perennial U.S. Open contender (with seven top ten finishes and second place in 1927 and 1936), "Lighthorse Harry", as he was nicknamed, also placed second in the 1936 Masters as well as reaching the quarterfinals of the PGA Championship on several occasions.
Cooper won 32 PGA Tour titles in all and the inaugural Vardon Trophy in 1937.
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 Harry Cooper (golfer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harry Cooper (born August 6, 1904 - died October 17, 2000) was a prominent PGA Tour golfer of the 1920s and 1930s.
Cooper's family moved to Texas when Cooper was young, and his father took a job as a club professional in Dallas.
Subsequently was active as a senior golfer, placing sixth in the 1955 Senior PGA Championship.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Cooper_%28golfer%29   (232 words)

  
 HickokSports.com - Biography - Harry Cooper
Cooper won two of the few tournaments on the tour in 1926, and he appeared to be the winner of the U. Open.
Cooper also finished second in the 1936 Masters after Horton Smith birdied three of the last five holes to win.
Cooper's best year was 1937, when he was the tour's top money winner and also won the Vardon trophy for fewest strokes per round.
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 Harry Cooper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Harry Cooper (born August 6, 1904 - died October 17, 2000)was a prominent PGA Tour professional golfer of the 1920s and 1930s.
A perennial U.S. Open contender (with seven top ten finishes andsecond place in 1927 and 1936), "Lighthorse Harry", as he was nicknamed, also placed second in the 1936 Masters as well as reaching the quarterfinals of the PGA Championship on several occasions.
His greatest successes were across the border, as he won the Canadian Open in 1932 and 1937.Cooper won 32 PGA Tour titles in all and the inaugural Vardon Trophy in 1937.
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 Remembering a pioneer's legacy - PGATOUR.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Cooper was born in Leatherhead, England, in 1904, and came to North America in 1912, when his golf pro father, Sid, took a club job in Canada.
Harry had been playing golf since he was 3 but it was in Texas as a teenager that he became the standout he would be for the next 25 years.
Cooper offered many reasons for his near-misses in the majors, such as an opponent's lucky bounce off a spectator or Gene Sarazen clubbing fellow Italian, Manero, as he came down the stretch.
www.golfweb.com /u/ce/multi/0,1977,3073185,00.html   (1119 words)

  
 List of golfers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This list of golf players, known as golfers includes the most notable players of the sport, who are almost exclusively professionals.
Golfers are sorted by nationality in the golfers category.
There are links to several articles containing lists of golfers organised in other ways at the bottom of the page.
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 Harry Cooper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Harry Cooper, the Curator of Modern Art, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Harry Bryant Cooper 1873 – 1959, a noted American physician who practiced in Hawaii.
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 Golf pioneer Cooper dead at 96 - 10/19/00
   Cooper, who turned pro in 1923 and was the longest-serving member of the PGA of America, died Tuesday at a hospital in White Plains, N.Y. He was elected to the PGA Hall of Fame in 1959.
   "Harry was one of our association's best role models in golf as a player, teacher, and most importantly, a gentleman," said Will Mann, president of the PGA of America.
The Cooper family moved to the United States, settled in Texas, and shortly thereafter he followed his father into golf.
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 Cooper, Harry --  Encyclopædia Britannica
After his playing days, Cooper continued as an instructor until age 93, when he was believed to be the oldest active teaching professional.
After his playing days, Cooper continued as an instructor until age 93, when he was believed to be the oldest active teaching...
Cooper possibly was best known for his roles in such Westerns as High Noon (1952).
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 Metrolina Golf -- August 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Harry Cooper -- Won 31 PGA Tour events -- the most by any player not to win a major.
Only major titles have been the 1986 and 1993 British Opens, although he is the only golfer ever to lose all four majors in a playoff.
Only golfer to be named AP Male Athlete of the Year twice; retired at age 34 in 1946.
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 SLAM! SPORTS: 2000 IN REVIEW
Oct. 17 -- Harry Cooper, Hall of Fame golfer who won the first Vardon Trophy for the lowest average score and had 32 victories on the PGA Tour, died at age 96.
Cooper turned pro in 1923 and was the longest-serving member of the PGA of America.
Cooper got his first victory in the inaugural Los Angeles Open at age 22.
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 Alice Cooper 'Trashes the Internet' - Latest News.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
All the Cooper Classic Tracks are her including "I'm 18", "Elected", "Schools Out" and "No More Mr Nice Guy", and they all prove that in the history of rock 'n' roll there has never been anyone quite like Alice Cooper.
Once, during a 1969 Alice Cooper show in Toronto, a member of the audience threw a live hen on stage; Cooper, thinking it would be able to fly, threw it back.
Cooper has nothing to do with the business side but admits he gets a kick out of walking through the bar and chatting with his fans as they chow down on such dishes as “No More Mr Nice Guy” chicken pasta.
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 GolfDigest.com - What America gave golf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Harry Cooper's bag was said to contain more clubs than any other "name" competitor in the '20s and '30s.
Cooper was said to have 26 clubs in the bag when he won the 1934 Western Open.
They worried that a golfer would pause to have an overlong chat with his caddie on the subject of which "numbered club" to use in a troublesome situation.
www.golfdigest.com /features/index.ssf?/features/gd200508allamjenkins.html   (1855 words)

  
 A final birdie does it by Joseph Romanos | New Zealand Listener
He was the outstanding player in the American team when the Eisenhower Trophy, for the world's top amateur golfers, was held in Christchurch in 1990.
Mickelson is one of the finest golfers of his generation and to hear him being derided because he had not won a Major was absurd.
Never mind that Norman won two Majors, was the world's No 1 ranked golfer for four years and won nearly 60 tournaments worldwide.
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 World Almanac for Kids
On either side of the fairway is the rough, areas covered with long grass, bushes, or trees and sometimes containing sandy, rough, or marshy land that compel golfers to use additional skill and judgment in playing their shots.
Par is the term applied to the number of properly played strokes an expert golfer would be expected to use in completing a particular hole without mishap; the aggregate for all of the holes is par for the course.
The British golfer Joyce Wethered (1901–97), winner of four British amateur and five English amateur championships, is often considered the greatest female golfer in the history of the game.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/golf.html   (2328 words)

  
 Fred Larsen: THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The second shortest period of time known to man is the time it takes a golfer to go from being a positive thinker to a negative thinker.
He was a clone of his father, and was a very good golfer.
Harry Cooper was the 1937 leading money winner on the PGA.
www.fredlarsen.com /articles/000015.php   (1245 words)

  
 Harry Cooper (golfer) Definition / Harry Cooper (golfer) Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Harry Cooper (golfer) Definition / Harry Cooper (golfer) Research
Harry Cooper (born August 6August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining.
[click for more], 1904 - died October 17, 2000) was a prominent PGA Tour professional golfer of the 1920s Referred to as the Roaring 20's.
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 Episode 15 - Drive With a Dead Girl
Through COOPER'S POV several people are in the room moving about but we FOCUS on LELAND, holding a golf club in his hands, as he prances and dances around the room.
COOPER looks forward to see LELAND’S blue convertible come into view as it turns around a bend in the road and swerves from the left side of road, where he should be, to right side and directly ahead of TRUMAN’S police cruiser.
COOPER grabs his gun holster off the top of a dresser near the door and draws the revolver.
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 Golf Digest: Written off - golfer Ralph Guldahl
He was never the same Any time a champion golfer loses his form there are more questions than answers, particularly when the thud is as sudden and loud as it was for Ralph Guldahl nearly 60 years ago, when his skills disappeared like a car hurtling off a cliff.
He had won consecutive U.S. Open championships in 1937 and '38 and three straight Western Opens (a major in the minds of golfers of the era) from 1936 through '38.
At 6-foot-3 he was one of the first really good tall golfers, but with a stoop-shouldered posture that he'd had since he was a teenager, he forever looked like he was trying to duck through a submarine hatch.
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 Twin Peaks Episode #2.008
Cooper and Truman bolt out of Harry's office and exit the station.
Cooper sees the oncoming car in their lane before Harry.
Cooper, Truman and Jerry Horne are also in the room.
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 A 100 Year History -- Part Two: 1920-1939
The tournament's success (it remains as the nation's oldest civic-sponsored event) encouraged other tour stops, as well, although the concept of the tour as we know it today was barely in its infancy.
The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) brought its championship to Hillcrest CC in Los Angeles in 1929.
He is one of the finest golfers, a star at either match or medal play.
www.scga.org /fore/cent/second/ch3.htm   (840 words)

  
 Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Harvey Miller (Jerry Lewis) has all the tools to be a great professional golfer, but he has one rather big problem: he comes totally unglued in front of a gallery.
Knowing he'll never be able to play the tour himself, Harvey teaches everything he knows to the debonair Joe Anthony (Dean Martin), acting as his protege's caddy when he enters a big tournament.
At a tournament at Pebble Beach, the two engage in an argument over club selection that degenerates into chaos, after which they decide their talents are better suited to show business.
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 Bobby Jones The Golfer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Jones is a common family name which comes from the term 'Son ofJohn' or 'Son of Joan' but can also be attributed to the name 'Jonah' a name of Icelandic origins suggesting a Viking connection.
This list of golf players, known as golfers includes the most notableplayers of the sport, who are almost exclusively professionals in the sport.
Commonly appearing connections are : Bobby Jones The Golfer, Bobby Julich, Bobby Julich, Bobby Kahn, Bobby Kahn, Bobby Keel, Bobby Keel, Bobby Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy Assassination, Bobby Kennedy Assassination, Bobby Kent, Bobby Kent, Bobby Kent Murder, Bobby Kent Murder, Bobby Keyes, Bobby Keyes, Bobby Khan, Bobby Khan, Bobby Kielty
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 Kope's Short Shots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This is a good story about the color “green.” Harry Cooper, a great golfer who came close but never won the U.S. Open, was very superstitious.
The quality of the golfer is about the same as always, but the course is very dry and the ball rolls forever.
Only the dedicated golfers are getting their rounds in under these conditions.
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 Encyclopedia: Harry Cooper (golfer)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 Same old song: Lefty comes up short again - GolfWeb@PGATOUR.COM U.S. Open Coverage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Instead of knocking off Woods, Mickelson introduced himself to Harry "Lighthorse" Cooper, who had seven top-3 finishes in the majors without ever winning one.
Mickelson, a student of golf's long history, has been watching from the best seat in the house since Woods arrived on the PGA Tour in 1996.
Surely, he must be wondering if he's a victim of fate, a fine golfer who just happened to be born at the wrong time.
www.golfweb.com /u/ce/multi/0,1977,5438932,00.html   (974 words)

  
 Articles - PGA Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Since 1968, it has been completely separate from the Professional Golfers' Association of America (“PGA of America”), which is now primarily an association of club professionals.
A golfer who wins three events on that tour in a calendar year earns what is called a "battlefield promotion" which garners PGA Tour privileges for the remainder of the year, and the following year.
World Golf Championships: A set of events co-sanctioned by the PGA European Tour which attract the leading golfers from all over the world, including those who are not members of the PGA TOUR.
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 St Augustine: World Golf Village
Bio: Bradley, the first female golfer to win all four major championships, was a competitive skier before taking up golf.
Cooper won more than 30 tournaments between 1926 and 1942.
A superior match-play golfer, he lost only once, to Sam Snead, in Ryder Cup singles.
www.staugustine.com /wgv/spg_Hall_of_Fame.shtml   (1063 words)

  
 Seattle Times: Golf: Spotlight on Bill Mercer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1927, a member of the club where I worked drove me to Oakmont Golf Club outside Pittsburgh and I crawled under the fence and watched the fourth round of the U.S. Open.
"I was a scratch golfer for 4-5 years in the 30s.
I've lived in Bellevue for 20 years and my last handicap was 14 at Glendale Country Club in the early 1980s.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /sports/golf/html98/gmug_19990421.html   (195 words)

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