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Alma mater
Alma mater (Latin: "nourishing/kind", "mother"; pl.) is an allegorical Latin phrase for a university or college.
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ANA Inspiration
The ANA Inspiration (formerly known most recently as the Kraft Nabisco Championship, and still sometimes referred to as the Dinah Shore) is one of the five major championships of professional women's golf.
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Bar
A bar (also known as a saloon or a tavern or sometimes a pub or club, referring to the actual establishment, as in pub bar or savage club etc.) is a retail business establishment that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks and often sell snack foods such as crisps (potato chips) or peanuts, for consumption on premises.
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Ben Hogan
William Ben Hogan (August 13, 1912 – July 25, 1997) was an American professional golfer who is generally considered to be one of the greatest players in the history of the game.
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Bernhard Langer
Bernhard Langer (born 27 August 1957) is a German professional golfer.
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Biarritz
Biarritz (Biarritz or Miarritze; Gascon Biàrritz) is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in Southwestern France.
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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.
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Bounce (golf)
In golf, bounce or bounce angle is the angle inscribed by the leading edge of a golfing iron (particularly a wedge), the sole of the club, and the ground.
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British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association
BIGGA, the British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association was officially formed on January 1, 1987.
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Caddie
In golf, a caddie (or caddy) is the person who carries a player's bag and clubs, and gives insightful advice and moral support.
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Calcutta auction
A Calcutta auction is an open auction held in conjunction with a golf tournament, horse race or similar contest with multiple entrants.
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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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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).
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Decimal Day
On 15 February 1971, known as Decimal Day, the United Kingdom and Ireland decimalised their currencies.
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Dotdash
Dotdash (formerly About.com) is an American Internet-based network of content that publishes articles and videos about various subjects on its "topic sites", of which there are nearly 1,000.
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Dune
In physical geography, a dune is a hill of loose sand built by aeolian processes (wind) or the flow of water.
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Fore (golf)
"Fore!", originally a Scots interjection, is used to warn anyone standing or moving in the flight of a golf ball.
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Four-ball golf
Fourball is a playing format in the sport of golf.
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Foursome (golf)
A foursome, also known as alternate shot, is a type of match in the sport of golf.
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Funnies (golf)
Funnies are terms used during a game of golf to describe various achievements, both positive and negative.
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Gary McCord
Gary Dennis McCord (born May 23, 1948) is an American professional golfer, commentator, author, and actor.
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Gene Sarazen
Gene Sarazen (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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Gimme
In golf, a gimme is a shot that the other players agree can count automatically without being played.
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Glossary of cricket terms
This is a general glossary of the terminology used in the sport of cricket.
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Glossary of golf
The following is a glossary of the terminology currently used in the sport of golf.
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Golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
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Golf ball
A golf ball is a special ball designed to be used in the game of golf.
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Golf club
A golf club is a club used to hit a golf ball in a game of golf.
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Golf course
A golf course is the grounds where the game of golf is played.
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Golf Course Superintendents Association of America
Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) was founded in 1926 when 60 superintendents met at the Sylvania Country Club in Toledo, Ohio to form the National Association of Greenkeepers of America (NAGA).
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Golf stroke mechanics
Golf stroke mechanics is the means by which golfers make decisions (selecting clubs, selecting shots) and execute them (making shots) in the sport of golf.
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Grand Slam (golf)
The Grand Slam in professional golf is winning all of golf's major championships in the same calendar year.
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Handicap (golf)
A golf handicap is a numerical measure of a golfer's potential ability.
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Harry Vardon
Henry William "Harry" Vardon (9 May 1870 – 20 March 1937) was a professional golfer from the Bailiwick of Jersey.
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Hazard (golf)
A hazard is an area of a golf course in the sport of golf which provides a difficult obstacle, which may be of two types: (1) water hazards such as lakes and rivers; and (2) man-made hazards such as bunkers.
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Hole in one
In golf, a hole in one or hole-in-one (also known as an ace, mostly in American English) occurs when a ball hit from a tee finishes in the cup.
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Hybrid (golf)
A hybrid is a type of club used in the sport of golf with a design borrowing from both irons and woods while differing from both.
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Iron (golf)
An iron is a type of club used in the sport of golf to propel the ball towards the hole.
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Legends Tour
The Legends Tour, formerly known as the Women's Senior Golf Tour before the 2006 season, is a professional golf tour for women aged 45 and older.
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Links (golf)
A links is the oldest style of golf course, first developed in Scotland.
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Lob wedge
A lob wedge, also known as a lofted wedge or a L-Wedge is a wedge used in the sport of golf, known for being one of the shortest-hitting clubs and providing the most loft on a shot.
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Loft
A bunk bed loft can be an upper storey or attic in a building, directly under the roof (US usage) or just a storage space under the roof usually accessed by a ladder (British usage).
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LPGA
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female professional golfers.
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Masters Tournament
The Masters Tournament (usually referred to as simply The Masters, or the U.S. Masters outside of North America) is one of the four major championships in professional golf.
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Match play
Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes.
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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 four most prestigious annual tournaments in professional golf.
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Mexico
Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.
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Monday qualifier
A Monday qualifier is a stroke play golf tournament held on the Monday before a professional golf tournament that awards top finishers entry into the professional tournament.
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Mulligan (games)
A mulligan is a second chance to perform an action, usually after the first chance went wrong through bad luck or a blunder.
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Nassau (bet)
The Nassau bet gets its name from the Nassau Country Club on Long Island, where the format was invented in the early 1900s by club captain John B. Coles Tappan.
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Nineteenth hole
In golf, the nineteenth hole is a slang term for a pub, bar, or restaurant on or near the golf course, very often the clubhouse itself.
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North Berwick West Links
One of two golf courses within North Berwick, the West Links is by far the more renowned.
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Obsolete golf clubs
Early golf clubs were all made of wood.
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Outline of golf
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to golf: Golf – precision club and ball sport, in which competing players (or golfers) use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest strokes.
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Par (score)
In golf, par is the predetermined number of strokes that a scratch (or 0 handicap) golfer should require to complete a hole, a round (the sum of the pars of the played holes), or a tournament (the sum of the pars of each round).
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Perfect round
In golf, a perfect round is a round of eighteen holes where all holes were played on average at one under par (average of birdie on every hole) resulting in a score of 55 on a par 73 course, 54 on a par 72 course, 53 on a par 71 course, and 52 on a par 70 course.
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Persimmon
The persimmon (sometimes spelled persimon) is the edible fruit of a number of species of trees in the genus Diospyros.
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PGA Championship
The PGA Championship (often referred to as the U.S. PGA Championship or U.S. PGA outside the United States) is an annual golf tournament conducted by the Professional Golfers' Association of America.
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PGA European Tour
The PGA European Tour is an organisation which operates the three leading men's professional golf tours in Europe: the elite European Tour, the European Senior Tour and the developmental Challenge Tour.
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PGA Tour
The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of the main professional golf tours played primarily by men in the United States and North America.
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PGA Tour Champions
PGA Tour Champions (formerly the Senior PGA Tour and the Champions Tour) is a men's professional senior golf tour, administered as a branch of the PGA Tour.
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Presidents Cup
The Presidents Cup is a series of men's golf matches between a team representing the United States and an International Team representing the rest of the world minus Europe (i.e. Asia, Africa, Central and South America, Oceania, Mexico and Canada).
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Prize indemnity insurance
Prize indemnity insurance is indemnification insurance for a promotion in which the participants are offered the chance to win prizes.
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Professional golf tours
Professional golf tours are the means by which otherwise unconnected professional golf tournaments are organised into a regular schedule.
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Professional Golfers Association
Professional Golfers' Association, (with or without the apostrophe), is the usual term for a professional association in men's golf.
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Professional Golfers' Association of America
The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA of America) is an American organization of golf professionals.
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Puritan Sabbatarianism
Puritan Sabbatarianism or Reformed Sabbatarianism, often just Sabbatarianism, is observance of Sabbath in Christianity that is typically characterised by devotion of the entire day to worship, and consequently the avoidance of recreational activities.
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Qualifying school
In professional golf the term qualifying school is used for the annual qualifying tournaments for leading golf tours such as the U.S.-based PGA and LPGA Tours and the European Tour.
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Rangefinder
A rangefinder is a device that measures distance from the observer to a target, in a process called ranging.
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Rules of golf
The rules of golf consist of a standard set of regulations and procedures by which the sport of golf should be played and prescribe penalties for rule infractions.
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Ryder Cup
The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States.
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Sam Snead
Samuel Jackson Snead (May 27, 1912 – May 23, 2002) was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of four decades.
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Scots language
Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots).
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Shilling
The shilling is a unit of currency formerly used in Austria, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, United States, and other British Commonwealth countries.
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Sixpence (British coin)
The sixpence (6d), sometimes known as a tanner or sixpenny bit, is a coin that was worth one-fortieth of a pound sterling, or six pence. It was first minted in the reign of Edward VI and circulated until 1980. Following decimalisation in 1971 it had a value of new pence. The coin was made from silver from its introduction in 1551 to 1947, and thereafter in cupronickel. Prior to Decimal Day in 1971 there were 240 pence in one pound sterling. Twelve pence made a shilling, and twenty shillings made a pound. Values less than a pound were usually written in shillings and pence, e.g. 42 old pence (p) would be three shillings and sixpence (3/6), often pronounced "three and six". Values of less than a shilling were simply written in terms of pence, e.g. eight pence would be 8d ('d' for denarius).
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Skins game
A skins game is a type of scoring for various sports.
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Sport
Sport (British English) or sports (American English) includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators.
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Sports governing body
A sports governing body is a sports organization that has a regulatory or sanctioning function.
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Stableford
Stableford is a scoring system used in the sport of golf.
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Stimpmeter
The Stimpmeter is a device used to measure the speed of a golf course putting green by applying a known force to a golf ball and measuring the distance traveled in feet.
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Stroke play
Stroke play, also known as medal play, is a scoring system in the sport of golf.
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Tee
A tee is a stand used to support a stationary ball so that the player can strike it, particularly in golf, tee ball, American football, and rugby.
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Teeing ground
The teeing ground is the area where play begins in a hole of golf.
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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 when Ireland hosted the championship.
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The Evian Championship
The Evian Championship is a women's professional golf tournament in France, played at the Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains each September.
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The Open Championship
The Open Championship, often referred to as The Open or the British Open, is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf.
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The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is the oldest and most prestigious golf club in the world.
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U.S. Mid-Amateur Golf Championship
The U.S. Mid-Amateur, often called the Mid-Am for short, is the leading annual golf tournament in the United States for post-college amateur golfers, organized by the USGA.
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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. Women's Mid-Amateur
The U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur is one of thirteen United States Golf Association national championships.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Amateur Championship (golf)
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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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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United States Senior Men's Amateur Golf Championship
The United States Senior Men's Amateur Golf Championship is a national tournament for amateur golf competitors at least 55 years of age.
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United States Women's Open Championship (golf)
The United States Women's Open Golf Championship, one of thirteen national championships conducted by the United States Golf Association (USGA), is the oldest of the LPGA Tour's five major championships, which includes the ANA Inspiration, Women's PGA Championship, Women's British Open, and The Evian Championship.
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Wedge (golf)
In the sport of golf, a wedge is a subset of the iron family of golf clubs designed for special use situations.
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Wire-to-wire
Wire-to-wire is a term used in competitive events and sports for a champion who maintained the lead during an entire competition.
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Women's British Open
The Women's British Open is a major championship in women's professional golf.
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Women's major golf championships
Women's golf has a set of major championships which parallels that in men's golf, with the women's system newer and less stable than the men's.
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Women's PGA Championship
The Women's PGA Championship is the second-longest running golf tournament in the history of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, surpassed only by the U.S. Women's Open.
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Wood (golf)
A wood is a type of club used in the sport of golf.
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Yips
The yips is the loss of fine motor skills in athletes.
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References
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