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Medinah Country Club, the Glossary

Medinah Country Club is a private country club in Medinah, Illinois, with nearly 600 members and containing three golf courses, Lake Kadijah, swimming facilities, a golf learning center, golf shop, gun club, racket center and a mosque-evoking Byzantine-style, Moroccan domed clubhouse topped with minarets and classic Moorish architectural aspects.^[1]

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Golf clubs and courses designed by A. W. Tillinghast
Golf clubs and courses designed by Tom Bendelow
Golf clubs and courses in Illinois
Medina
Ryder Cup venues

Billy Casper

William Earl Casper Jr. (June 24, 1931 – February 7, 2015) was an American professional golfer.

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Byron Nelson

Jug McSpaden (left) and Nelson --> John Byron Nelson Jr. (February 4, 1912 – September 26, 2006) was an American professional golfer between 1935 and 1946, widely considered one of the greatest golfers of all time.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Cary Middlecoff

Emmett Cary Middlecoff (January 6, 1921 – September 1, 1998) was an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour from 1947 to 1961.

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Country club

A country club is a privately owned club, often with a membership quota and admittance by invitation or sponsorship, that generally offers both a variety of recreational sports and facilities for dining and entertaining.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Gary Player

Gary James Player (born 1 November 1935) is a South African retired professional golfer who is widely considered to be one of the greatest golfers of all time.

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Gene Sarazen

Gene Sarazen (born Eugenio Saraceni, February 27, 1902 – May 13, 1999) was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s, and the winner of seven major championships.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Golf course

A golf course is the grounds on which the sport of golf is played.

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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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Hale Irwin

Hale S. Irwin (born June 3, 1945) is an American professional golfer.

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Harry Cooper (golfer)

Henry Edward Cooper (August 4, 1904 – October 17, 2000) was an English-American PGA Tour golfer of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Hideki Matsuyama

is a Japanese professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Jason Kokrak

Jason Kenneth Kokrak (born May 22, 1985) is an American professional golfer who plays in the LIV Golf League.

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Justin Thomas

Justin Louis Thomas (born April 29, 1993) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and is a former world number one.

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Khadija bint Khuwaylid

Khadijah bint Khuwaylid (Khadīja bint Khuwaylid, 554 – November 619) was the first wife and the first follower of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Lou Graham

Louis Krebs Graham (born January 7, 1938) is an American professional golfer who won six PGA Tour tournaments including the 1975 U.S. Open.

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Medinah, Illinois

Medinah is an unincorporated community in the state of Illinois and is a northwest suburb of Chicago, located in DuPage County. Medinah Country Club and Medinah, Illinois are Medina.

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Men's major golf championships

The men's major golf championships, commonly known as the major championships, and often referred to simply as the majors, are the most prestigious tournaments in golf.

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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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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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Rees Jones

Rees Jones (born September 16, 1941) is an American golf course architect.

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Ryder Cup

The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between European and United States teams.

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Shriners

Shriners International, formally known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (AAONMS), is an American Masonic society.

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Swimming (sport)

Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water.

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Team Europe

Team Europe may refer to a number of sports team using the designate to represent a unified team of European countries in sporting competitions.

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Tiger Woods

Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer.

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Tom Bendelow

Tom Bendelow (1868–1936), nicknamed "The Johnny Appleseed of American Golf" and "The Dean of American Golf", was a Scottish American golf course architect during the first half of the twentieth century. Medinah Country Club and Tom Bendelow are golf clubs and courses designed by Tom Bendelow.

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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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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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U.S. Senior Open

The U.S. Senior Open is one of the five major championships in senior golf, introduced in 1980.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medinah_Country_Club

Medinah Country Club, the Glossary

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Golf clubs and courses designed by A. W. Tillinghast

Golf clubs and courses designed by Tom Bendelow

Golf clubs and courses in Illinois

Medina

Ryder Cup venues

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