George Von Elm, the Glossary
George "Gix" Von Elm (March 20, 1901 – May 1, 1961) was an American professional golfer most noted for his amateur career.[1]
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82 relations: Alameda, Idaho, Amateur sports, Associated Press, Baltusrol Golf Club, Billy Burke (golfer), Blackfoot, Idaho, Bobby Jones (golfer), Caddie, California State Amateur Championship, California State Open, Chandler Egan, Chelsea, Michigan, Chicago Golf Club, Chick Evans, Cinema of the United States, Colorado, Doubleday (publisher), Eastern Idaho, Engineer, Francis Ouimet, French International Amateur Championship, Gale (publisher), Geoffrey Cornish, Golf Digest, Great Depression, High school football, Idaho, Internal Revenue Service, Inverness Club, Ketchum, Idaho, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Open, Masters Tournament, Merion Golf Club, Metropolitan Amateur, Michigan Open, Mississippi River, Mount Ogden, National Collegiate Athletic Association, New Jersey, Oakmont Country Club, Old Course at St Andrews, Pacific Northwest Amateur, Palm Springs, California, Pebble Beach Golf Links, PGA Championship, PGA Tour, Pocatello, Idaho, Professional golfer, Quarterback, ... Expand index (32 more) »
- Golfers from Idaho
- Golfers from Los Angeles
- Golfers from Utah
- West High School (Utah) alumni
Alameda, Idaho
Alameda was a city in the western United States, located in Bannock County, Idaho.
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Amateur sports
Amateur sports are sports in which participants engage largely or entirely without remuneration.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Baltusrol Golf Club
The Baltusrol Golf Club is a private 36-hole golf club in the eastern United States, located in Springfield, New Jersey, about west of New York City.
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Billy Burke (golfer)
William John Burke, Burkauskas (polonized Burkowski) (December 14, 1902 – April 19, 1972) was an American professional golfer during the early 20th century.
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Blackfoot is a city and county seat of Bingham County, Idaho, United States.
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Bobby Jones (golfer)
Robert Tyre Jones Jr. (March 17, 1902 – December 18, 1971) was an American amateur golfer who was one of the most influential figures in the history of the sport; he was also a lawyer by profession. George Von Elm and Bobby Jones (golfer) are golf course architects.
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Caddie
In golf or disc golf, a caddie (or caddy) is the person who assists a golfer on the course.
California State Amateur Championship
The California Amateur Championship or California Amateur is a golf championship held in California for the state's top amateur golfers.
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California State Open
The California State Open is the California state open golf tournament, open to both amateur and professional golfers.
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Chandler Egan
Henry Chandler Egan (August 21, 1884 – April 5, 1936) was an American amateur golfer and golf course architect of the early 20th century. George Von Elm and Chandler Egan are golf course architects.
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Chelsea, Michigan
Chelsea is a city in Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Chicago Golf Club
Chicago Golf Club is a private golf club in the central United States, located in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago.
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Chick Evans
Charles E. "Chick" Evans Jr. (July 18, 1890 – November 6, 1979) was a prominent American amateur golfer of the 1910s and 1920s.
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Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.
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Colorado
Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
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Doubleday (publisher)
Doubleday is an American publishing company.
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Eastern Idaho
Eastern Idaho is the area of Idaho lying east of the Magic Valley region.
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Engineer
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost.
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Francis Ouimet
Francis DeSales Ouimet (May 8, 1893 – September 2, 1967) was an American amateur golfer who is frequently referred to as the "father of amateur golf" in the United States.
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French International Amateur Championship
The French International Amateur Championship is an annual amateur golf tournament that is held in France and organised by the Fédération Française de Golf.
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Gale (publisher)
Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources.
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Geoffrey Cornish
Geoffrey St John Cornish (August 6, 1914 – February 10, 2012) was a golf course architect, author, and a fellow of the American Society of Golf Course Architects. George Von Elm and Geoffrey Cornish are golf course architects.
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Golf Digest
Golf Digest is a monthly golf magazine published by Warner Bros. Discovery through its TNT Sports unit.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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High school football (football au lycée), also known as prep football, is gridiron football played by high school teams in the United States and Canada.
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Idaho
Idaho is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Internal Revenue Service
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service for the United States federal government, which is responsible for collecting U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory tax law.
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Inverness Club
Inverness Club is a private golf club in Toledo, Ohio.
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Ketchum, Idaho
Ketchum is a city in Blaine County, Idaho, United States.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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Los Angeles Open
The Genesis Invitational is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour in southern California, first played in 1926 as the Los Angeles Open.
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Masters Tournament
The Masters Tournament (usually referred to as simply the Masters, or as the U.S. Masters outside North America) is one of the four men's major golf championships in professional golf.
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Merion Golf Club
Merion Golf Club is a private golf club which is located in Haverford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, a township bordering Philadelphia to the northwest along the historic Main Line.
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Metropolitan Amateur
The Metropolitan Amateur or Met Amateur is an amateur golf tournament organized by the Metropolitan Golf Association.
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Michigan Open
The Michigan Open is the Michigan state open golf tournament, open to both amateur and professional golfers.
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Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.
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Mount Ogden
Mount Ogden is a peak in Weber County, Utah, United States in the northern Wasatch Range.
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and one in Canada.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.
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Oakmont Country Club
Oakmont Country Club is a country club in the eastern United States, located mostly in Plum with only a very small portion of the property located in Oakmont, suburbs of Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania.
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Old Course at St Andrews
The Old Course at St Andrews, also known as the Old Lady or the Grand Old Lady, is considered the oldest golf course in the world.
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Pacific Northwest Amateur
The Pacific Northwest Amateur is an annual amateur golf tournament.
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Palm Springs, California
Palm Springs (Cahuilla: Séc-he) is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Colorado Desert's Coachella Valley.
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Pebble Beach Golf Links
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PGA Championship
The PGA Championship (often referred to as the US PGA Championship or USPGA outside the United States) is an annual golf tournament conducted by the Professional Golfers' Association of America.
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PGA Tour
The PGA Tour (stylized as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in North America.
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Pocatello, Idaho
Pocatello is the county seat and largest city of Bannock County, with a small portion on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in neighboring Power County, containing the city's airport.
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Professional golfer
A professional golfer is somebody who receives payments or financial rewards in the sport of golf that are directly related to their skill or reputation.
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Quarterback
The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football.
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Rancho Park Golf Course
Rancho Park Golf Course is a municipal golf course in the western United States, located in southern California in the city of Los Angeles.
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Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England, is one of the courses in the Open Championship rotation.
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Royal St George's Golf Club
The Royal St George's Golf Club located in Sandwich, Kent, England, is a golf club in the United Kingdom and one of the courses on The Open Championship rotation and is the only Open rota golf course to be located in South East England.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah.
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Sarasota, Florida
Sarasota is a city in and the county seat of Sarasota County, Florida, United States.
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Spalding (company)
Spalding is an American sports equipment manufacturing company.
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Stock market crash
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a major cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth.
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Sun Valley Golf Course
Sun Valley Golf Course is a resort golf complex in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, located in Sun Valley, Idaho.
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Sun Valley, Idaho
Sun Valley is a resort city in the western United States, in Blaine County, Idaho, adjacent to the city of Ketchum in the Wood River valley.
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The Amateur Championship
The Amateur Championship (sometimes referred to as the British Amateur or British Amateur Championship outside the UK) is a golf tournament which has been held annually in the United Kingdom since 1885 except during the two World Wars, and in 1949 and 2019 when Ireland hosted the championship.
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The Open Championship
The Open Championship, often referred to as The Open or the British Open, is the oldest golf tournament in the world, and one of the most prestigious.
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The Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake Tribune is a newspaper published in the city of Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Toledo, Ohio
Toledo is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States.
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Tommy Armour
Thomas Dickson Armour (24 September 1896 – 11 September 1968) was a Scottish-American professional golfer.
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Trans-Mississippi Amateur
The Trans-Mississippi Amateur or Trans-Miss Amateur is an annual amateur golf tournament.
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U.S. Amateur
The United States Amateur Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Amateur, is the leading annual golf tournament in the United States for amateur golfers.
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U.S. Open (golf)
The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open national championship of golf in the United States.
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Ulcer
An ulcer is a discontinuity or break in a bodily membrane that impedes normal function of the affected organ.
United States Golf Association
The United States Golf Association (USGA) is the United States national association of golf courses, clubs and facilities and the governing body of golf for the U.S. and Mexico.
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University of Utah
The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Walker Cup
The Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested in odd-numbered years by leading male amateur golfers in two teams: United States, and Great Britain and Ireland featuring players from the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Walter Hagen
Walter Charles Hagen (December 21, 1892 – October 6, 1969) was an American professional golfer and a major figure in golf in the first half of the 20th century.
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Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
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West High School (Utah)
West High School is the oldest public high school in the U.S. state of Utah.
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William P. Bell
William Park Bell (April 19, 1886 – June 21, 1953) was a noted golf course architect, active from the 1920s into the early 1950s. George Von Elm and William P. Bell are golf course architects.
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Willie Hunter (golfer)
William Irvine Hunter (January 29, 1892 – October 18, 1968) was a Scottish-American professional golfer. George Von Elm and Willie Hunter (golfer) are golfers from Los Angeles.
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1926 Open Championship
The 1926 Open Championship was the 61st Open Championship, held 23–25 June at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, England.
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1928 Walker Cup
The 1928 Walker Cup, the 5th Walker Cup Match, was played on August 30 and 31, 1928, at Chicago Golf Club, Wheaton, Illinois.
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1930 Walker Cup
The 1930 Walker Cup, the 6th Walker Cup Match, was played on 15 and 16 May 1930, at Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich, Kent, England.
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1931 U.S. Open (golf)
The 1931 U.S. Open was the 35th U.S. Open, held July 2–6 at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio.
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1951 Masters Tournament
The 1951 Masters Tournament was the 15th Masters Tournament, held April 5–8 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.
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See also
Golfers from Idaho
- Babe Hiskey
- Beverly Hanson
- Brinson Paolini
- Chris Williams (American golfer)
- Don Bies
- George Von Elm
- Graham DeLaet
- Robert Garrigus
- Ryan Hietala
- Shirley Englehorn
- Tracy Hanson
- Tyler Aldridge
Golfers from Los Angeles
- Alison Lee
- Amy Hung
- Andrea Lee (golfer)
- Angel Yin
- Anthony Kim
- Barry Jaeckel
- Bill Wright (golfer)
- Brad Kearns
- Brian Vranesh
- Charlie Chung
- Count Yogi
- David Berganio Jr.
- David Lipsky (golfer)
- David Oh (golfer)
- Demi Runas
- Duffy Waldorf
- Ellsworth Vines
- Eric Monti
- Frances Bondad
- Gabriella Then
- George Von Elm
- Greg Twiggs
- J. J. Spaun
- James Oh
- Jim Ferrier
- John Huh
- John Jacobs (American golfer)
- Ken Tanigawa
- Lee Elder
- Marty Bohen
- Tony Sills
- Troy Mullins
- Vic Wilk
- Willie Hunter (golfer)
Golfers from Utah
- Bill Johnston (golfer)
- Bruce Summerhays
- Dan Forsman
- Daniel Summerhays
- George Von Elm
- Jay Don Blake
- Keith Clearwater
- Lauren Howe (golfer)
- Mike Reid (golfer)
- Scott Pinckney
- Tony Finau
- Zac Blair
West High School (Utah) alumni
- Clayton Christensen
- D. Frank Wilkins
- Dick Nemelka
- Fred Sanford (baseball)
- George Von Elm
- Gordon Rhodes
- Harold Ross
- Helen Foster Snow
- Mark H. Willes
- Nathan Chen
- Shannon Hale
- Thomas S. Monson
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Von_Elm
, Rancho Park Golf Course, Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Royal St George's Golf Club, Salt Lake City, Sarasota, Florida, Spalding (company), Stock market crash, Sun Valley Golf Course, Sun Valley, Idaho, The Amateur Championship, The Open Championship, The Salt Lake Tribune, Toledo, Ohio, Tommy Armour, Trans-Mississippi Amateur, U.S. Amateur, U.S. Open (golf), Ulcer, United States Golf Association, University of Utah, Utah, Walker Cup, Walter Hagen, Warner Bros., West High School (Utah), William P. Bell, Willie Hunter (golfer), 1926 Open Championship, 1928 Walker Cup, 1930 Walker Cup, 1931 U.S. Open (golf), 1951 Masters Tournament.