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The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has recognized the Octagon Earthworks in central Ohio as a cultural marvel.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/arts/design/octagon-earthworks-ohio-world-heritage-site.html

The golf world is looking toward the Ryder Cup later this month, but the field in this week’s BMW PGA Championship is packed with top contenders.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/sports/golf/players-bmw-pga-championship.html

Golf course design is now in an era of star architects, but professional golfers are still bringing their name and vast playing knowledge to projects.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/sports/golf/pro-golfers-course-architecture.html

The six-time major champion has retired after 16 years as a CBS analyst. It’s given him time to consider playing one last tournament.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/sports/golf/nick-faldo-bmw-pga-championship.html

A group of bull sharks ended up spending 17 years in a lake by a golf course’s 14th hole, suggesting that the predators can live in low-saltwater environments indefinitely.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/science/sharks-golf-course-australia.html

LIV Golf has embraced the former president. But much of golf’s establishment is keeping its distance, even as LIV and the PGA Tour seek a détente.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/sports/golf/trump-liv-golf-bedminster.html

With the addition of Woods, players will outnumber independent directors, giving them the final say in the tour’s plan to form a partnership with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/sports/golf/tiger-woods-pga-tour-golf.html

Any one of these talented women could win the golf tournament in France.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/sports/golf/players-evian-championship.html

Golfers say this major’s longtime course is unique, some say it’s quirky, but players still must go over it again and again to get ready.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/sports/preparing-for-the-evian-championship.html

It was her lone tournament win, and she remembers the relief of getting that first one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/sports/golf/natalie-gulbis-evian-championship.html

Golf has long had a tradition of fathers and sons, but when the British Open was last held at Royal Liverpool in 2014, Rory McIlroy put golf’s moms on equal footing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/sports/golf/british-open-mcilroy-fleetwood-woods.html

Harman, a 36-year-old American, came close to winning the 2017 U.S. Open, but his triumph on Sunday gave him his first major title.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/23/sports/golf/british-open-brian-harman.html

The Open is being played for the 151st time, this time at Royal Liverpool in England. It has never once been to Wales.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/23/sports/golf/british-open-wales.html

Jon Rahm’s 63 was a record for an Open at Royal Liverpool, but Brian Harman will enter Sunday with a five-shot lead.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/sports/golf/british-open-rahm-scheffler-mcilroy.html

Brian Harman has never won a major tournament but led the field at 10 under heading into the weekend, with Rory McIlroy nine back.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/sports/golf/british-open-mcilroy-harman-fleetwood.html

Conditions were calm at Royal Liverpool as the final men’s golf major of the year began. Don’t expect them to stay that way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/sports/golf/british-open-fleetwood-lamprecht-cink.html

No matter which seaside, windswept course hosts the British Open, the final major tournament of the year puts a golfer’s imagination to work, and captures ours.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/sports/golf/british-open-royal-liverpool-links.html

Shin, who won by nine strokes in 2012, walks The Times through five holes that will test the men at the 151st Open.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/sports/golf/british-open-royal-liverpool-guide.html

The Open is not looking for a title sponsor for one of the world’s most celebrated tournaments, but other options could be on the table.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/sports/golf/british-open-saudi-pga-tour.html

Many of the best players in the world have gathered at Royal Liverpool for the last major of the year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/sports/golf/players-to-watch-at-the-british-open.html