Arnold tied for second 3 times - 1964, 1968, and 1970 – but he never won the US PGA Championship. As he did win each of the other three majors, missing out on the PGA stopped him from winning a career Grand Slam.
According to an article published in GolfDigest in 2016, Royal County Down G.C. in Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland is the best or number one ranked golf course in the world.
Curtis Strange has won two major championships, the 1988 US Open at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts and the 1989 US Open at the East Course of Oak Hill Country Club in the Town of Pittsford near Rochester, New York.
Dave Stockton has won two major championships, the 1970 PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma and the 1976 PGA Championship at Congressional Country Club (Blue Course) in Bethesda, Maryland.
The dimples ensure the air follows a little more around the back of a ball in flight than it would if the ball had no dimples. This reduces the size of the 'wake' behind the ball and the ball goes further.
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