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Private club in Augusta, Georgia; hosts the Masters Tournament annually — the sport’s most venue-identified major.

A.W. Tillinghast design in Bethpage State Park — a municipal heavyweight that has hosted U.S. Opens and the PGA Championship.

Donald Ross–designed anchor of Pinehurst Resort; long-standing U.S. Open and USGA championship venue.

Permanent home of THE PLAYERS Championship — the PGA TOUR’s flagship event on the Stadium Course since 1982 (venue history in the 2026 Media Guide).

Henry Fownes design (1903) — widely used as a U.S. Open benchmark venue; USGA championship material references Oakmont’s championship lineage.

Oakmont Country Club has hosted the U.S. Open a record number of times — including the 2025 championship listed on the USGA’s official U.S. Open site as Oakmont’s 10th U.S. Open.

Venue-level “most majors at one course” framing is exactly the kind of official, course-first fact this lab is meant to surface.

At TPC Sawgrass (THE PLAYERS Stadium Course), the tournament record low 72-hole score is 264 — Greg Norman (1994), per the 2026 Media Guide tournament records block.

The Media Guide lists the largest margin of victory at THE PLAYERS as 7 strokes — Steve Elkington (1997).

The 2026 Media Guide lists the low 18-hole score at THE PLAYERS as 62 — Tom Hoge (Round 3, 2023) and Justin Thomas (Round 2, 2025).

Championship setups lean on crowned/turtleback greens and sandy surrounds that punish imprecise approaches — the strategic test is approach-and-short-game, not raw length alone.

Wiregrass and native Sandhills framing, Donald Ross routing, and famously crowned greens that repel marginal approaches — the resort positions No. 2 as its championship centerpiece.

The 2026 Media Guide tournament records for the Masters list the low 72-hole score as 268 — Dustin Johnson (2020).

The Media Guide lists the low 18-hole score at the Masters as 63 — Nick Price (Round 3, 1986) and Greg Norman (Round 1, 1996).

The club and tournament are tightly fused: a single invitational major on one course, with a defined identity (Amen Corner, azaleas, limited broadcast aesthetics) — a clean venue-first story.

Brooks Koepka won the 2019 PGA Championship held at Bethpage Black (his second straight PGA Championship title that cycle).

Bethpage State Park’s Black course is a publicly accessible major-championship host — the “people’s” foil to private major venues, often cited in PGA Championship venue copy.

Fast, sloping greens, deep bunkers (including the Church Pews complex), and minimal recovery when out of position — the USGA’s Oakmont championship pages emphasize the course’s penal setup.

Adam Scott won THE PLAYERS Championship in 2004 at TPC Sawgrass (listed in the Media Guide’s PLAYERS winners list).

Tiger Woods has multiple Masters wins at Augusta National — including the record 12-stroke victory in 1997 and the 2019 Masters (listed in the Media Guide’s Masters winners list).

Rory McIlroy won the 2014 U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 (among notable performances at the venue).

Pinehurst No. 2 has hosted multiple U.S. Opens, including 1999 (Payne Stewart), 2005 (Michael Campbell), 2014 (Martin Kaymer), and 2024 (Bryson DeChambeau).

The Masters has been held annually at Augusta National since 1934. The 2026 Media Guide winner list includes 2025: Rory McIlroy; 2024: Scottie Scheffler; 2023: Jon Rahm (among prior champions listed in the guide).

Bethpage Black has hosted multiple majors, including the U.S. Open (2002, 2009) and the PGA Championship (2019), with the Ryder Cup among future events promoted on PGA Championship venue materials.

The 2026 Media Guide tournament header lists the 2025 winner as Rory McIlroy (THE PLAYERS at TPC Sawgrass).

Oakmont’s U.S. Open roll call includes many historic champions — e.g. Johnny Miller’s final-round 63 in 1973 and Dustin Johnson’s win in 2016, among others documented in USGA materials.

A golf-native reading is usually the live tournament field leaderboard (or the current event’s scores) — not season-long FedExCup points.

This prototype doesn’t ingest live scores; the point is to show that venue- and event-first routing matters for golf Q&A products.

Since the start of the 1983 season, the Media Guide lists Robert Allenby and Hal Sutton tied for the most career PGA TOUR holes-in-one with 10 each (tied atop the all-time table in the 2026 guide).

The Media Guide’s “The Last Time (Holes-in-One)” section lists Andrew Magee (2001 WM Phoenix Open, Round 1, No. 17) as the last to make a hole-in-one on a par 4.

Per the 2026 Media Guide, the tournament with the most holes-in-one since the start of the 1983 season is the 2009 RBC Canadian Open, with 8 in one edition.