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Défi mini-putt

Serge Vleminckx went on to announce games for the short-lived Montreal Roadrunners roller hockey team.


2004 Pitch and Putt World Cup

The 2004 Pitch and Putt World Cup was held in Chia, Italy, being the first time for this championship promoted by the Federation of International Pitch and Putt Associations (FIPPA), with 8 national teams in competition.

2007 Pitch and putt European Championship

The 2007 Pitch and putt European Teams Championship held in Chia (Italy) was organized by the Federazione Italiana Pitch and Putt and promoted by the European Pitch and Putt Association (EPPA), with 10 teams in competition.

Ahmed Meshaima

He followed this in Beijing in the 2008 Summer Paralympics by competing in the shot putt and javelin but failed to match his 2004 achievement and went home without any medals.

Bill Glasson

Trailing seven strokes behind the leader Larry Mize with 14 holes to play, Glasson made a 45-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for a round of 66 to finish one stroke ahead of Mize and Corey Pavin.

Bob Heintz

Heintz had a very close call at the 2010 Reno-Tahoe Open where he missed a 3.5 foot (1.1 m) putt on the final hole to get into a playoff with Matt Bettencourt for an opportunity for his first PGA Tour victory.

Catalonia men's national pitch and putt team

Pitch and putt is played in Catalonia since the "eighties" when Martin Withelaw build a course in Solius (Girona).

Claddaghduff

Claddaghduff is known for its deep sea angling, lake fishing, boat trips to Inishturk and Inishbofin, pony trekking, pitch & putt, dive sites, beaches and historical tours.

Congressional Country Club

With the course playing as a par 70, 1970 champion Dave Stockton sank a par-saving putt on the 72nd hole to win his second PGA Championship by one stroke at 281 (+1).

Dewey Tomko

On NBC's Poker After Dark, Greg Raymer noted that pro golfer Rocco Mediate has said that if he had one person to putt for his life, it would be Tomko.

European Pitch and Putt Association

European Pitch and Putt Association stages the European Pitch and putt Championship, played biennially from 1999 to 2007 and every 4 years since 2011, ant the European Pitch and putt Strokeplay Championship, played since 2011.

Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare

After inquiries, the King wrote to Surrey that, as they had "noon evident testimonies" to convict the Earl, he thought it but just to "release hym out of warde, and putt hym under suretie not to departe this our realme without our special lisense."

Giancarlo Volpe

Graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 1997, Volpe began his career at Humongous Entertainment, animating on the children's computer games "Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't so Frightening" and Putt-Putt Enters the Race.

Gorley Putt

He was the son of Poole Putt and Ellen Blake Gorley of Brixham, Devon.

Heath Slocum

At the first playoff event, The Barclays at Liberty National Golf Club in New Jersey, he won the event by one stroke, holing a 21 foot putt for par on the last hole to deny Ernie Els, Pádraig Harrington, Steve Stricker, and Tiger Woods the chance of victory.

Henry Longhurst

He is best remembered by American audiences for his calls at the 16th hole of the US Masters Tournament including Jack Nicklaus' 40 foot birdie putt that led to victory in 1975.

Julie Piers

A sudden death playoff between Piers and Laura Davies was narrowly averted when Davies sank an eight-foot par putt on the last hole of the tournament.

Julius Hutka

Július Hutka (Humenné) is a paralympic athlete from Slovakia competing mainly in category F57 shot putt and javelin events.

Miniature golf

In 1961 Bob Taylor, Don Clayton of Putt-Putt, and Frank Abramoff of Arnold Palmer Miniature Golf organized the first miniature golf association known as NAPCOMS (or the "National Association of Putting Course Operators, Manufacturers, and Suppliers").

Nachman Wolf

Nachamn has competed at a total of five Paralympics for Israel, his first games in Stoke Mandeville/New York in 1984 were his most successful as he picked up gold in the discus and shot putt and silver in the javelin and pentathlon missing out on gold to Sweden's Raymond Clark in both events.

Professional Putters Association

The Professional Putters Association (PPA) was started in 1959, by the founder of Putt-Putt Golf, Don Clayton, in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Ryan Palmer

Palmer entered the final round leading by one stroke, but as the final round progressed in windy conditions he had to hole a birdie putt on the last to enter a playoff with Keegan Bradley.

Wales Open

In the same year, Phillip Archer posted a score of 60 in the first round, which would have been a 59 but for a missed birdie putt on the 18th green.


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