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Sweet we have our first member after around an hour. Welcome Doug Bell! I'm going to add some of the {{ Wikiproject Golf}} templates around the place for a while, and then see where we are. Grover 07:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
I've just started a new category Category:Wikiproject Golf articles to make it a bit easier. Every page that has the {{ Wikiproject Golf}} template on it will be in this category. Grover 05:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi all. I thought trying to get an article to featured article standards may enhance production here. The obvious article to try is Golf, but if there are any other suggestions, shoot away. Grover 09:00, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:03, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
What guidelines should be in place for a golf course to be notable? For starters, I think:
Time for a discussion! Grover 02:03, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
I agree with Grover's criteria. I think courses played in Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup competitions should be notable as well (like Robert Trent Jones Golf Club). Also, to expand your idea Grover, I think courses from Golf Magazine's Top 100 You Can Play and Golf Digest's 100 Greatest Public Courses should be notable.
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Heatfan55
21:33, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Mowsbury, I was simply adding two ideas about golf course notability. Interpreting my comments by saying "on this basis there are no notable courses outside North America apart from...(a few)" is absurd. I thought this section was for listing ideas about golf course notability. I can't list them all. Carl's points are very relevant to this discussion. This is a list of ideas about courses to be added (not deleted)!!!! - Heatfan55 18:26, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey guys, just quickly this golfing link is a fantastic idea and i am a huge supporter of what you guys are trying to do. i actually help run the largest amateur tournament in Australia the master of the amateurs. This is another tournament we can add in. is there anything articles i can help put in to help increase global attention to the golfing world? cheers
WP:GOLF now redirects here as a shortcut - • The Giant Puffin • 20:52, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
I have no desire to talk about the game of golf. I have been drawn to this page by the unwanted inference in the affairs of the sport of Park Golf. For too long Parkers have lived in the shadow of the more mainstream game. I hereby declare the independence of the sport of Park Golf, and announce my intention to unite with fellow Parkers in opposing any interference in our beloved sport. We should have the right to govern our own wikipedia page, away from the shadow of a taskforce that is simply the trojan horse of the game of non-Park Golf. Parkers the world over aspire to develop their sport in a way that they alone see fit. They demand independence. Vive la revolution! Vive la park golf!(PS. I am aware that the French refer to non-Park Golf as le golf, however the Park Golf Governing Council have instructed French Parkers to refer to their game as "la Parc Golf", in a move that is designed to demonstrate our new found freedom and independence). You know like Korea and Corea and that whole thing innit?!
Looks like Park Golf has it's own page afterall:
Park_golf
Please, someone check Golf shafts and rewrite if necessary. Thanks. Carlosguitar 17:10, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
If I might suggest: I've just been through the articles on the majors, and I've noticed that each one has a completely different board on for the list of winners, also displaying different information — in some cases, lacking clearly, such as the board of winners for The Masters, which doesn't lists the venues. I would suggest standardizing this, possibly by creating a standard template for winners' boards to be used on all articles on golf tournaments. Of course, that entails the task of researching some of the information missing, and standardizing the form of display of other relevant pieces of information (such as the winning score, which shows in different formats in 3 of the 4 articles I saw).
Right off the bat, I could suggest that we not use an entire column to display the winner's nationality: simply place the flagicon next to the winner's name, like it is done in other similar boards, for other sporting events — that would save valuable space that could be used for columns containing relevant information that really can't be otherwise displayed. Just my two cents.
Redux
20:45, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
I've been creating and/or updating all the LPGA Tour event pages and working on this since last season. You might check out the format for the winner's tables on some of these pages, for example the LPGA Championship or the Sybase Classic. I've been trying to standardize the winner's tables for all events, to include: year (linking to year in golf, not just linking the year straight), name, country, score, venue, purse, winner's share. There's plenty of room for all this info and I think having both the flag and the country name is informative.. The hover feature also does not work in all browsers or platforms. In most cases this info is available so it makes sense to include it all. I've been working on this since last season. I think it makes sense to standardize these results tables for all the tours, mens and womens, if possible. Crunch 21:37, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
I recently created an article on the Kobe Golf Club, the first golf course in Japan. I took the liberty of tagging it as a golf stub, and since I'm more familiar with Japan than golf, any help you could provide in expanding the article would be most appreciated. The same goes for Arthur Hasketh Groom, the founder of Kobe Golf Club. -- Exitmoose 01:14, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
The Jack Nicklaus article is on hold for GA status because it needs some referencing improvements. Details are on the talk page. Any help would be appreciated - • The Giant Puffin • 22:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
I've been looking around at some other wikiprojects lately for a few ideas that would be good for our WikiProject. I would love some feedback on these ideas.
Again, I would love some feedback, and new, innovative ideas we could add. Grover 07:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Maybe someoen will be interested in developing this article Saint George's Hill === Vernon White (talk) 23:09, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
I was surprised to see that we only had articles for the 2006, 2004 and 1999 Ryder Cups, so I spent some time in the past couple of days to create the rest. (see category:Ryder Cup) They all have complete results, using the same formatting style as the original three articles, but not much else. What they need is some interesting prose added to them - there are tons of great Ryder Cup stories that we need to get into Wikipedia. I have included three different references with each article, so hopefully that will make it easier to write something by paraphrasing and not incurring any copyright violations. Hope this helps your Wikiproject! Andrwsc 00:26, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I have made this template but it doesn't seem to work, if anyone can fix it and get it to work i would be extremely grateful. - Bones999 (talk) 18:36 , 26 March 2007 (UTC)
I have fixed the template now so please add it to all the relevant pages. Bones999 (talk) 18:51 , 28 March 2007 (UTC)
I have added an idea to this template's talk page about adding FedEx Cup point values to the infobox. I think it would improve the infobox and each PGA tournament page, and I welcome thoughts on if my idea is good or bad. Thanks. -- Mtjaws ( talk) 21:12, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
I think you should add a rating parameter to the templates like there are on other templates, i would add it myself but i feel it should be discussed first. (talk) 16:26 , 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Two things I need to bring up.
Grover 12:28, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I certainly agree to Alexander Phipps that there should be a section that should be included in this article, Rules of golf, outlining the very Basic Rules of Golf such as the 18-Holes, the Four-Player Limit, Teeing and Putting, Play the Golf Ball as it Lies, Ball Marking, the Flagstick, Obstructions, Loose Impediments, Playing the Wrong ball, and others. Furthermore, a section should also be included discussing the Scoring system of golf. Bu b0y2007 04:07, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I've just asked Snowolf if he could get his bot Snowbot to tag talk pages with the {{ Wikiproject Golf}}. All he now needs is verification that this is what we want to do. Is this ok for everyone? Grover 10:44, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Greetings, I'm not a member of your project, but I recently started an article on the above Golf Club (after I made a new infobox that I think works better than the Club box). But I am not a golfer, so I was wondering if someone could take a look and make sure everything looks OK before I move on to create other notable courses in Oregon. Thanks. Aboutmovies 07:17, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Ok this should be sorted out soon before more and more infoboxes are put in articles. There are currently two different types of golfer infoboxes used on articles. See Jack Nicklaus and Greg Norman. The one on the Greg Norman page is the standard one, and has been agreed on by another wikiproject, WikiProject Golfers. The other, on the Jack Nicklaus page, is not actually a template as yet. Although I believe that this template looks much better, and holds much more information, some have raised the concern that it is too big, as infoboxes should be a short summary of the player. I'm hopeful for some sort of concensus on this issue. Please, even if you are glancing through the talk page, take 2 minutes to look at the two articles and come to a decision, or make a comment here. Grover 10:48, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
There are 3 categories of golfers with respect to performance in Major Championships:
I feel the infoboxes will have to differ for each. Take Jack Nicklaus. Notice the heading of the section on his page simply states "Major Championship Wins (18)" because he has won them all. For the 5 players who have achieved the career grand slam, I would suggest that their headings be "Major Championship Wins (# of wins)". For those who have won at least 1 major, but not all, have a two-line heading, the first: "Best Results in Major Championships" and the second: Wins (#of wins). For the third category of golfers, there would be a one-line heading: "Best Results in Major Championships", and the result and the years would be below for all 4 majors. Your thoughts on this would be appreciated. Supertigerman 18:23, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I doubt if I'm allowed to do this or if I'm even going to get any support but I'm asking anyway. I've recently found a well-organized but deserted wiki that was attempting to create a directory of golf courses. I'm sure everyone here has no interest in helping with such a thing while focusing on this, but if anyone is, please leave a message here and I'll send you the site link. 72.79.34.176 20:27, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
Can someone tell me please-- Wayne Neptune 03:37, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
I would love to join this project because i have played golf all my life, but i don't know how or where to join. Would somebody please help me.
-- Metalasis 21:50, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
It seems there's no July newsletter. --( Review Me) R Parlate Contribs @ (Let's Go Yankees!) 23:28, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
New Wiki editor, so I'm not sure about this, but should the AT&T National still be listed as a "Future Sporting event" page, since it is now in progress? 18:49, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Also, for the "purse" bullet in the tournament infoboxes, would it not look better to insert a space between "US" and "$", before the purse amount? Just a thought. 18:52, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
I've made substantial edits to Pebble Beach Golf Links and would love it if someone would look it over. I borrowed the info box from the article on Pumpkin Ridge - I think that's a nice thing to have on all pages. I'd like to see a "signature holes" section and small recaps of significant tournaments on course pages, but I haven't read any of your discussions on these things (just discovered this WikiProject yesterday). I left the Scorecard section alone, but I have mixed feelings about that. One, the format of the table at, for example Pumpkin Ridge is much nicer, but two, scorecards change every year and I'm not sure how useful it is to have them on course pages here. (I imagine this is being debated?) I have a book on Oak Hill and may make that my next project, so feedback on what I did to Pebble Beach welcome. SJS1971 14:56, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Seems like there haven't been a lot of posts here lately. I've gotta think that a project about golf should be very active. Anyway, I'm new, and I'll add little bits here and there. Pages I've created/added to: 1982 U.S. Open Golf Championship, 1986 Masters Tournament, and Pebble Beach Golf Links. Yep, I'm cherry picking the big ones to start on, but I figure that's the way to keep my enthusiasm at the beginning. Next up: 2000 PGA Championship, of course. SJS1971 18:16, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Does this project cover or intend to cover disc golf? If not, please remove the project tag from talk pages of bios in Category:American disc golfers (may be renamed to Category:Flying disc players, since there is not justification for game- and country-specific subcats yet). — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ cont] ‹(-¿-)› 14:30, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Someone should start an article for golf course architect, golf course design and golf course designer. They are currently all redirects. -- evrik ( talk) 19:28, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
I have recently created two new templates relating to the European Tour. They are Template:European Tour Order of Merit winners and Template:Sir Henry Cotton Rookies of the Year. I was hoping that you guys could help me by adding these templates to the relevant golfers' articles. Thank you. Christophee 00:19, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Golf articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
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8 | 1 | 9 | ||||
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1 | 1 | |||||
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2 | 12 | 14 | ||||
B | 26 | 11 | 28 | 67 | 132 | ||
C | 28 | 16 | 74 | 251 | 369 | ||
Start | 2 | 69 | 457 | 6,512 | 1 | 7,041 | |
Stub | 90 | 4,513 | 4,603 | ||||
List | 2 | 18 | 19 | 161 | 200 | ||
Category | 6 | 2,650 | 2,656 | ||||
Disambig | 12 | 12 | |||||
File | 205 | 205 | |||||
Project | 32 | 32 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 1 | 83 | 261 | 346 | ||
Template | 2 | 453 | 455 | ||||
NA | 2 | 2 | |||||
Other | 21 | 21 | |||||
Assessed | 61 | 123 | 670 | 11,611 | 3,634 | 1 | 16,100 |
Total | 61 | 123 | 670 | 11,611 | 3,634 | 1 | 16,100 |
WikiWork factors ( ?) | ω = 64,640 | Ω = 5.32 |
Grovermj sent me this: "I thought that a way to further improve the golf articles on Wikipedia is for the whole project to work together towards a goal. An example of this could be a certain number of good articles in so many months, or to create the project's first ever featured article. If you are interested, come to the talk page and discuss it. And hopefully through this the project can continue to work towards several goals in the near future."
I agree with him, we should make an article like Jack Nicklaus featured or work on making articles better. Anyone have any thoughts? michfan2123 14:56, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I am currently tagging unassessed stub articles as stubs. If I am not sure of an article's status, I skip it, I am trying to bring down the unassessed number. michfan2123 15:25, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I think we should focus on Jack Nicklaus to become a featured article. We could maybe focus on different golfer every two or three months. Eddie6705 17:05, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Indeed, the Top importance golf articles should be the primary focus to become featured articles. Jack Nicklaus would be the most logical choice, since he is to date the greatest golfer of all time. I admit I get a little jealous of the other sports when I see that Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky, the greatest in their respective sports, are featured articles. Supertigerman 19:54, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I would be happy to both improve the Jack Nicklaus article to featured status and bring down the unassessed number, maybe to 60% by the end of the month. Hopefully we can get the first featured article for golf on Wikipedia! Grover 22:47, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I think so far that these are all good ideas. My personal focus in this project has to date been focused on articles that appeal to current or prospective players such as the main Golf article, golf course, rules articles and equipment articles. These are areas which, IMO, need very little to achieve GA status, and I would appreciate input from anyone with a similar focus. In equipment especially, the only additions generally required are external refs and a few images. There are some reorgs still going on in some pages, and I would greatly appreciate input or assistance on these. Liko81 18:31, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Ok so I guess that improving
Jack Nicklaus is a popular choice. Maybe the best way to improve it would be to use the
peer review and check off things that have been done/dont need to be done etc. I think it's also worthwhile to create an article for
T:DYK, and I have one in mind for this,
The Australian Golf Club. Finally, i've been working on the
Golf article for the last week or so, and it is very close to
WP:GA status, I think. But, one thing at a time :)
Grover
00:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
I'll go along with this. My focus so far has been creating and expanding articles on LPGA tournaments, current and historical, and secondarily on LPGA players, current and historical. This is a big need because in some cases the information is not available in any unified place anywhere else in print or online. Wikipedia can turn out to be the best source for this information. But I support working to get Jack Nicklaus to featured status. It probably has the best chance. -- Crunch ( talk) 23:23, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
I was updating the European Tour template and i saw that some of the tournaments dont have inboxes. Should they? if so i'm willing to make them. Eddie6705 ( talk) 21:01, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
What do you guys think? 2007 OMEGA Mission Hills World Cup michfan2123 ( talk) 16:15, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
The above-noted article has been nominated for deletion. Please offer your opinions at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toronto Golf Club. PKT ( talk) 12:58, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I've just created the article The Australian Golf Club, and put it up for T:DYK. Hopefully it gets through! Grover ( talk) 10:41, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
My personal new year resolutions for Wikipedia are:
What are everyones goals for the new year? Grover ( talk) 11:32, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
My personal goals are to start bio pages for every golfer who won at least one PGA Tour event in the 1950s and 1960s (1970-2007 is complete); and to start pages for former PGA Tour events held in the 1950s and 1960s (1970-2007 is complete).-- Hokeman ( talk) 17:09, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to get a page up for every LPGA event that ever took place. However, since the pages I'm creating here are better than the records the LPGA has, this is a daunting task. -- Crunch ( talk) 17:34, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
I am pleased to announce that every golfer who won a PGA Tour event since 1970 now has a page in Wikipedia; also every current and former PGA Tour event played since 1970 now has a page in Wikipedia.-- Hokeman ( talk) 14:37, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
I've started trying to convert the infobox, which is now on alot of pages, into an actual standardised template. I've started in userspace, any help would be appreciated, because i've never used the more technical, harder stuff before. Grover ( talk) 08:43, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Someone's nominated this after a few days work on it. Comments and help on improving the article would be appreciated. Grover ( talk) 07:48, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
YES!!! michfan2123 ( talk) 23:29, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
I've gotten a bot to tag every page in Category:Golf, so the unassessed number has gone from 0 to up above 1000 again :). Sorry to "revert" your hard work hehe, but it had to be done sometime. :) Grover ( talk) 09:24, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
After some work i've nominated Seve Ballesteros for good article status. I'm 99% sure that it's ready, as it is fully referenced (apart from one tag which i'll fix tomorrow) and is fairly complete. Since the WP:GAC process is extremely backlogged, there is alot of time to improve the article more. On that note, I think some of us should contribute to that backlog, it is pretty big, especially in the sports section, and it'll have the added advantage of getting Seve reviewed much quicker :) Grover ( talk) 11:41, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
For the section on tour leaders, is this just for the end of the season or can it be updated weekly to show the current leaders? Eddie6705 ( talk) 14:16, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
I assume you're referring to 2008 in golf. This article is intended to be a record of events that happened in golf in 2008, so the Tour leaders are the leaders as of the end of the season. -- Crunch ( talk) 17:31, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Yes i know but can i update it now, such as put Lee Westwood as leader of the European Tour? Eddie6705 ( talk) 18:28, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Well the idea is that it's a record of how things turned out at the end of the year. The concern about putting the current leaders is that it would have to be kept current with the current leaders for all of the tours as they continually change. I'm not sure there are people who can do this. You might have the leader of the Eueropean Tour or of the PGA but who wants to keep it current with the leader of the Futures Tour or of the Sunshine Tour? -- Crunch ( talk) 18:51, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Well i don't mind keeping them all up to date. The only one i can see a problem with is the LPGA tour of Japan. Eddie6705 ( talk) 23:40, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Seriously, Eddie, I don't think you're understanding what the article 2008 in golf is all about. It's an historical record of what happened in golf in 2008. Not a play-by-play. Putting in the current leaders as they change makes no more sense than putting in round-by-round leaders in a tournament and changing it each day of the tournament. Please do not change the purpose of the article. If you want to create another article "Current Professional Golf Tour Leaders" that might be great. In fact, maybe you could make a navigation template box out of it. I will add an introduction to all the "years in golf" articles to clarify their purpose because apparently it is not clear. Thank you for understanding. -- Crunch ( talk) 00:18, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to propose a GA "contest". It would run over 2-3 months, and the editors with the most good articles created by the end of the timespan would get an award. This would serve to increase the output of the project by introducing some friendly competition. What are your thoughts? (if anyone is listening :P) Grover mj 08:39, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I understand what good article means and what the process is. My question was not with Wikipedia's criter for a Good article but with this Project's criteria for what articles are deemed suitable for working on to elevate to that level. A lot of articles would be close to Good level, for example, simply with the addition of some references, an infobox, or properly-tagged images. I don't think we can ever get a group together to work on one article but it would be good to get a varied list of articles that are close to being at the Good level so members can choose the ones they want to work on. Make sense? -- Crunch ( talk) 12:14, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Good points. I've been focusing on documenting things here on Wikipedia that haven't been documented anywhere else. I think that's a good thing. For that reason I'm spending a lot of time creating articles on, for example, Futures Tour events or obscure golf courses that once upon a time hosted a PGA event. It's a lot of extra work to add the references etc. that would get these up to Good status. I don't expect that a lot of other people would care to devote that amount of time. -- Crunch ( talk) 12:36, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Ok, does anyone have any ideas?? Grover mj 00:18, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
In this article: [1] I noticed it doesn't even mention what sport is being written about. Even if it is obvious it should be stated at the beginning of the article. The word "golf" never appears in this article. It only shows up at the very bottom under "categories". The same holds true for the other years of the President's Cup, but the word "golf" only appears in the name of the "Golf Club" where the tournament was played and never states it is the sport of golf being written about. Just thought you might want to know this. Honestly I am not a golf fan and did not know what the President's Cup was and could not tell the subject was golf until I saw a few names I recognized like Jack Nicholas and Tiger Woods. Thanks for your attention in this matter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.203.52.46 ( talk) 00:25, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
I would like to add a section about the recent developments in golf equipment and their affect on the game of golf. Along with this, I would like to include information about the regulations that the USGA and the R&A have imposed on driver technology and the characteristics of golf balls. I am wondering if anyone has any sugguestions on what would be the best article to add this section to. I was thinking either the "golf equipment" article or the equipment development section of the "history of golf" article. Please feel free to give any other suggestions on what you think would make this section more useful. Techwriter32 ( talk) 02:23, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
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Hello,
there are currently 15 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)
I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 16:25, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
I was updating the article on the ballistic pendulum, and ran across a couple of references to its use in late 19th/early 20th century golf research. In particular, the 1911 Britannica mentioned that physicist C. V. Boys used one to measure the elasticity of golf balls. I suspect the following things:
I would appreciate it if anyone could provide me with some more information on Boys' research; either a link to an online source (I found other mentions, but no additional data, with a Google book search) or, if you have a hardcopy resource, either a quick summary or e-mail me some scans I can use as a source. scot ( talk) 01:57, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Is this "WikiProject Golf" run by the PGA tour? Because I find it humorous that the wikipedia page concerning the Casey Martin supreme court case, which was apparently sponsored or created by this WikiProject, reveals almost nothing about the case itself other than describing in great detail Justice Scalia's dissenting opinion which agreed with the PGA Tour. It even says, "The case is principally memorable for its dissent by Justice Antonin Scalia." Are you kidding me? This is a landmark Supreme Court case for persons with disabilites. That would be like saying, "Brown vs the Board of Education was memorable because one of the justices made a spelling mistake in his opinion." Someone please change that page to be more impartial and actually take a minute to explain the case and not just the PGA Tour's argument. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.68.229.247 ( talk) 01:18, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm a long-time contributor to Wikipedia (though I don't log in very often). With Rocco Mediate competing at the 2008 U.S. Open, I did some clean-up to his article a couple of hours ago (see contributions).
I came to your wikiproject page to find out how to use whatever infobox template was appropriate, with the idea of applying it to Mediate's article, which has a template-less, hand-crafted infobox. I saw that you have such a template listed (at Wikipedia:WikiProject Golf#Templates), but almost no one uses it, I assume because of the issues described here.
For now I'll just be bold and update the template section to note the template's current status. Please consider coming up with a {{ Infobox golfer}} that project members actively use so that the rest of us can help you with cleaning up the hand-crafted infobox mess the current golfer articles are in. Thanks. 66.167.138.139 ( talk) 02:31, 16 June 2008 (UTC).
In case you're not aware of it, one of the project's templates is up for deletion: Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2008_June_27#Template:America.27s_Top_10_Golf_Courses. Dreadstar † 17:32, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.
Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot ( Disable) 21:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Currently, 3490 articles are assigned to this project, of which 310, or 8.9%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place a template on your project page.
If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 16:24, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Was just checking the Australan golf categories and the template wouldnt respond to anything about class= - suggest that whoever made or modified the template for golf needs to check it to make sure it is working - cheers Satu Suro 11:11, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Could someone with access to the September 2006 issue of PGA Magazine please take a look at ALINE Systems and verify that the PGA Magazine citation in this article is relevant. Work toward better using the citation in the context of the article would be appreciated too, but verifying the reference would be quite useful in and of itself. Thanks. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me) 18:30, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
I just joined Wikipedia, and so I start by adding a category to some golf courses, only to discover that it's a nightmarish mess! Category:Golf clubs and courses in Delaware exists alongside Category:Golf clubs and courses in the United States, which exists alongside Category:Golf clubs and courses. Is the categorizing system really this crazy? Shouldn't, for example, the Delaware one AUTOMATICALLY place the article into the United States one and the non-specific one? Isn't there some tool or robot that could do that? First Fairway ( talk) 17:10, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
This concerns a number of golfers from the twenties. The USGA's official US Open site [2] lists a number of golfers including Jim Barnes and Tommy Armour with quotes such as "Jim Barnes, an Englishman representing the Pelham (N.Y.) Country Club" and "Tommy Armour, a Scot who had recently turned professional," but they are listed as Americans throughout Wikipedia. I would guess that the official US Open site is as good a source as you get but I think this might need a good discussion before any changes are made. Topcardi ( talk) 00:51, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
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List of The Open Championship champions is currently at FLC. I've made some comments but am currently undecided whether to support or not. I'm not hugely knowledgable about golf myself, and would feel in a better position to decide whether to support or oppose if at least one person from this wikiproject had at least looked at the list and left a comment at FLC. In particular do you think that prize money should be included or not? Thanks. -- Jameboy ( talk) 22:32, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Many tournament articles include the sponsors name in the title. As per WP:MOSNAME, and since sponsors come and go, these articles should have the generic name of the tournament, and a redirect page be created for the full name including sponsor. Thoughts?
e.g Quinn Insurance British Masters has been renamed from Quinn Direct British Masters for the 2008 edition, despite more often being referred to simply as the British Masters. To avoid endless renaming and the potential double redirects this causes, the tournament article should be titled British Masters, and any variants, Dunhill British Masters etc., should then redirect to it. -- bigissue ( talk) 13:36, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
The article on Srixon has been nominated for deletion. As this project wishes to keep individual pages for the major equipment manufacturers, please have your say here – Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Srixon. -- bigissue ( talk) 09:10, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Since the previous discussion on the golfer infobox seemed to stall before finalizing on a standard template, I have taken the liberty of creating a fairly generic one – Template:Infobox Golfer Biography – and applied it to Peter Jacobsen. Any comment/suggestions? -- bigissue ( talk) 22:00, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
I could see no real need for two seperate infoboxes for tournaments, so have reworked the Template:Infobox Golf Tournament to make most fields optional, and added the additional ones that effectively makes Template:Infobox Former Golf Tournament redundant. Veiws? bigissue ( talk) 14:26, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Could some kind soul please cast an eye over:
I feel that the hook could do with "tightening up" (perhaps a total re-write or "ALT" hook proposal?), and the article needs a lot of work with copy editing, refs, expansion etc etc. Pretty photographs or other good images would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Mais oui! ( talk) 14:28, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
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Sweet we have our first member after around an hour. Welcome Doug Bell! I'm going to add some of the {{ Wikiproject Golf}} templates around the place for a while, and then see where we are. Grover 07:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
I've just started a new category Category:Wikiproject Golf articles to make it a bit easier. Every page that has the {{ Wikiproject Golf}} template on it will be in this category. Grover 05:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi all. I thought trying to get an article to featured article standards may enhance production here. The obvious article to try is Golf, but if there are any other suggestions, shoot away. Grover 09:00, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:03, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
What guidelines should be in place for a golf course to be notable? For starters, I think:
Time for a discussion! Grover 02:03, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
I agree with Grover's criteria. I think courses played in Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup competitions should be notable as well (like Robert Trent Jones Golf Club). Also, to expand your idea Grover, I think courses from Golf Magazine's Top 100 You Can Play and Golf Digest's 100 Greatest Public Courses should be notable.
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Heatfan55
21:33, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Mowsbury, I was simply adding two ideas about golf course notability. Interpreting my comments by saying "on this basis there are no notable courses outside North America apart from...(a few)" is absurd. I thought this section was for listing ideas about golf course notability. I can't list them all. Carl's points are very relevant to this discussion. This is a list of ideas about courses to be added (not deleted)!!!! - Heatfan55 18:26, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey guys, just quickly this golfing link is a fantastic idea and i am a huge supporter of what you guys are trying to do. i actually help run the largest amateur tournament in Australia the master of the amateurs. This is another tournament we can add in. is there anything articles i can help put in to help increase global attention to the golfing world? cheers
WP:GOLF now redirects here as a shortcut - • The Giant Puffin • 20:52, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
I have no desire to talk about the game of golf. I have been drawn to this page by the unwanted inference in the affairs of the sport of Park Golf. For too long Parkers have lived in the shadow of the more mainstream game. I hereby declare the independence of the sport of Park Golf, and announce my intention to unite with fellow Parkers in opposing any interference in our beloved sport. We should have the right to govern our own wikipedia page, away from the shadow of a taskforce that is simply the trojan horse of the game of non-Park Golf. Parkers the world over aspire to develop their sport in a way that they alone see fit. They demand independence. Vive la revolution! Vive la park golf!(PS. I am aware that the French refer to non-Park Golf as le golf, however the Park Golf Governing Council have instructed French Parkers to refer to their game as "la Parc Golf", in a move that is designed to demonstrate our new found freedom and independence). You know like Korea and Corea and that whole thing innit?!
Looks like Park Golf has it's own page afterall:
Park_golf
Please, someone check Golf shafts and rewrite if necessary. Thanks. Carlosguitar 17:10, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
If I might suggest: I've just been through the articles on the majors, and I've noticed that each one has a completely different board on for the list of winners, also displaying different information — in some cases, lacking clearly, such as the board of winners for The Masters, which doesn't lists the venues. I would suggest standardizing this, possibly by creating a standard template for winners' boards to be used on all articles on golf tournaments. Of course, that entails the task of researching some of the information missing, and standardizing the form of display of other relevant pieces of information (such as the winning score, which shows in different formats in 3 of the 4 articles I saw).
Right off the bat, I could suggest that we not use an entire column to display the winner's nationality: simply place the flagicon next to the winner's name, like it is done in other similar boards, for other sporting events — that would save valuable space that could be used for columns containing relevant information that really can't be otherwise displayed. Just my two cents.
Redux
20:45, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
I've been creating and/or updating all the LPGA Tour event pages and working on this since last season. You might check out the format for the winner's tables on some of these pages, for example the LPGA Championship or the Sybase Classic. I've been trying to standardize the winner's tables for all events, to include: year (linking to year in golf, not just linking the year straight), name, country, score, venue, purse, winner's share. There's plenty of room for all this info and I think having both the flag and the country name is informative.. The hover feature also does not work in all browsers or platforms. In most cases this info is available so it makes sense to include it all. I've been working on this since last season. I think it makes sense to standardize these results tables for all the tours, mens and womens, if possible. Crunch 21:37, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
I recently created an article on the Kobe Golf Club, the first golf course in Japan. I took the liberty of tagging it as a golf stub, and since I'm more familiar with Japan than golf, any help you could provide in expanding the article would be most appreciated. The same goes for Arthur Hasketh Groom, the founder of Kobe Golf Club. -- Exitmoose 01:14, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
The Jack Nicklaus article is on hold for GA status because it needs some referencing improvements. Details are on the talk page. Any help would be appreciated - • The Giant Puffin • 22:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
I've been looking around at some other wikiprojects lately for a few ideas that would be good for our WikiProject. I would love some feedback on these ideas.
Again, I would love some feedback, and new, innovative ideas we could add. Grover 07:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Maybe someoen will be interested in developing this article Saint George's Hill === Vernon White (talk) 23:09, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
I was surprised to see that we only had articles for the 2006, 2004 and 1999 Ryder Cups, so I spent some time in the past couple of days to create the rest. (see category:Ryder Cup) They all have complete results, using the same formatting style as the original three articles, but not much else. What they need is some interesting prose added to them - there are tons of great Ryder Cup stories that we need to get into Wikipedia. I have included three different references with each article, so hopefully that will make it easier to write something by paraphrasing and not incurring any copyright violations. Hope this helps your Wikiproject! Andrwsc 00:26, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I have made this template but it doesn't seem to work, if anyone can fix it and get it to work i would be extremely grateful. - Bones999 (talk) 18:36 , 26 March 2007 (UTC)
I have fixed the template now so please add it to all the relevant pages. Bones999 (talk) 18:51 , 28 March 2007 (UTC)
I have added an idea to this template's talk page about adding FedEx Cup point values to the infobox. I think it would improve the infobox and each PGA tournament page, and I welcome thoughts on if my idea is good or bad. Thanks. -- Mtjaws ( talk) 21:12, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
I think you should add a rating parameter to the templates like there are on other templates, i would add it myself but i feel it should be discussed first. (talk) 16:26 , 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Two things I need to bring up.
Grover 12:28, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I certainly agree to Alexander Phipps that there should be a section that should be included in this article, Rules of golf, outlining the very Basic Rules of Golf such as the 18-Holes, the Four-Player Limit, Teeing and Putting, Play the Golf Ball as it Lies, Ball Marking, the Flagstick, Obstructions, Loose Impediments, Playing the Wrong ball, and others. Furthermore, a section should also be included discussing the Scoring system of golf. Bu b0y2007 04:07, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I've just asked Snowolf if he could get his bot Snowbot to tag talk pages with the {{ Wikiproject Golf}}. All he now needs is verification that this is what we want to do. Is this ok for everyone? Grover 10:44, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Greetings, I'm not a member of your project, but I recently started an article on the above Golf Club (after I made a new infobox that I think works better than the Club box). But I am not a golfer, so I was wondering if someone could take a look and make sure everything looks OK before I move on to create other notable courses in Oregon. Thanks. Aboutmovies 07:17, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Ok this should be sorted out soon before more and more infoboxes are put in articles. There are currently two different types of golfer infoboxes used on articles. See Jack Nicklaus and Greg Norman. The one on the Greg Norman page is the standard one, and has been agreed on by another wikiproject, WikiProject Golfers. The other, on the Jack Nicklaus page, is not actually a template as yet. Although I believe that this template looks much better, and holds much more information, some have raised the concern that it is too big, as infoboxes should be a short summary of the player. I'm hopeful for some sort of concensus on this issue. Please, even if you are glancing through the talk page, take 2 minutes to look at the two articles and come to a decision, or make a comment here. Grover 10:48, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
There are 3 categories of golfers with respect to performance in Major Championships:
I feel the infoboxes will have to differ for each. Take Jack Nicklaus. Notice the heading of the section on his page simply states "Major Championship Wins (18)" because he has won them all. For the 5 players who have achieved the career grand slam, I would suggest that their headings be "Major Championship Wins (# of wins)". For those who have won at least 1 major, but not all, have a two-line heading, the first: "Best Results in Major Championships" and the second: Wins (#of wins). For the third category of golfers, there would be a one-line heading: "Best Results in Major Championships", and the result and the years would be below for all 4 majors. Your thoughts on this would be appreciated. Supertigerman 18:23, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I doubt if I'm allowed to do this or if I'm even going to get any support but I'm asking anyway. I've recently found a well-organized but deserted wiki that was attempting to create a directory of golf courses. I'm sure everyone here has no interest in helping with such a thing while focusing on this, but if anyone is, please leave a message here and I'll send you the site link. 72.79.34.176 20:27, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
Can someone tell me please-- Wayne Neptune 03:37, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
I would love to join this project because i have played golf all my life, but i don't know how or where to join. Would somebody please help me.
-- Metalasis 21:50, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
It seems there's no July newsletter. --( Review Me) R Parlate Contribs @ (Let's Go Yankees!) 23:28, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
New Wiki editor, so I'm not sure about this, but should the AT&T National still be listed as a "Future Sporting event" page, since it is now in progress? 18:49, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Also, for the "purse" bullet in the tournament infoboxes, would it not look better to insert a space between "US" and "$", before the purse amount? Just a thought. 18:52, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
I've made substantial edits to Pebble Beach Golf Links and would love it if someone would look it over. I borrowed the info box from the article on Pumpkin Ridge - I think that's a nice thing to have on all pages. I'd like to see a "signature holes" section and small recaps of significant tournaments on course pages, but I haven't read any of your discussions on these things (just discovered this WikiProject yesterday). I left the Scorecard section alone, but I have mixed feelings about that. One, the format of the table at, for example Pumpkin Ridge is much nicer, but two, scorecards change every year and I'm not sure how useful it is to have them on course pages here. (I imagine this is being debated?) I have a book on Oak Hill and may make that my next project, so feedback on what I did to Pebble Beach welcome. SJS1971 14:56, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Seems like there haven't been a lot of posts here lately. I've gotta think that a project about golf should be very active. Anyway, I'm new, and I'll add little bits here and there. Pages I've created/added to: 1982 U.S. Open Golf Championship, 1986 Masters Tournament, and Pebble Beach Golf Links. Yep, I'm cherry picking the big ones to start on, but I figure that's the way to keep my enthusiasm at the beginning. Next up: 2000 PGA Championship, of course. SJS1971 18:16, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Does this project cover or intend to cover disc golf? If not, please remove the project tag from talk pages of bios in Category:American disc golfers (may be renamed to Category:Flying disc players, since there is not justification for game- and country-specific subcats yet). — SMcCandlish [ talk] [ cont] ‹(-¿-)› 14:30, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Someone should start an article for golf course architect, golf course design and golf course designer. They are currently all redirects. -- evrik ( talk) 19:28, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
I have recently created two new templates relating to the European Tour. They are Template:European Tour Order of Merit winners and Template:Sir Henry Cotton Rookies of the Year. I was hoping that you guys could help me by adding these templates to the relevant golfers' articles. Thank you. Christophee 00:19, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Golf articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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8 | 1 | 9 | ||||
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2 | 12 | 14 | ||||
B | 26 | 11 | 28 | 67 | 132 | ||
C | 28 | 16 | 74 | 251 | 369 | ||
Start | 2 | 69 | 457 | 6,512 | 1 | 7,041 | |
Stub | 90 | 4,513 | 4,603 | ||||
List | 2 | 18 | 19 | 161 | 200 | ||
Category | 6 | 2,650 | 2,656 | ||||
Disambig | 12 | 12 | |||||
File | 205 | 205 | |||||
Project | 32 | 32 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 1 | 83 | 261 | 346 | ||
Template | 2 | 453 | 455 | ||||
NA | 2 | 2 | |||||
Other | 21 | 21 | |||||
Assessed | 61 | 123 | 670 | 11,611 | 3,634 | 1 | 16,100 |
Total | 61 | 123 | 670 | 11,611 | 3,634 | 1 | 16,100 |
WikiWork factors ( ?) | ω = 64,640 | Ω = 5.32 |
Grovermj sent me this: "I thought that a way to further improve the golf articles on Wikipedia is for the whole project to work together towards a goal. An example of this could be a certain number of good articles in so many months, or to create the project's first ever featured article. If you are interested, come to the talk page and discuss it. And hopefully through this the project can continue to work towards several goals in the near future."
I agree with him, we should make an article like Jack Nicklaus featured or work on making articles better. Anyone have any thoughts? michfan2123 14:56, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I am currently tagging unassessed stub articles as stubs. If I am not sure of an article's status, I skip it, I am trying to bring down the unassessed number. michfan2123 15:25, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I think we should focus on Jack Nicklaus to become a featured article. We could maybe focus on different golfer every two or three months. Eddie6705 17:05, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Indeed, the Top importance golf articles should be the primary focus to become featured articles. Jack Nicklaus would be the most logical choice, since he is to date the greatest golfer of all time. I admit I get a little jealous of the other sports when I see that Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky, the greatest in their respective sports, are featured articles. Supertigerman 19:54, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I would be happy to both improve the Jack Nicklaus article to featured status and bring down the unassessed number, maybe to 60% by the end of the month. Hopefully we can get the first featured article for golf on Wikipedia! Grover 22:47, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I think so far that these are all good ideas. My personal focus in this project has to date been focused on articles that appeal to current or prospective players such as the main Golf article, golf course, rules articles and equipment articles. These are areas which, IMO, need very little to achieve GA status, and I would appreciate input from anyone with a similar focus. In equipment especially, the only additions generally required are external refs and a few images. There are some reorgs still going on in some pages, and I would greatly appreciate input or assistance on these. Liko81 18:31, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Ok so I guess that improving
Jack Nicklaus is a popular choice. Maybe the best way to improve it would be to use the
peer review and check off things that have been done/dont need to be done etc. I think it's also worthwhile to create an article for
T:DYK, and I have one in mind for this,
The Australian Golf Club. Finally, i've been working on the
Golf article for the last week or so, and it is very close to
WP:GA status, I think. But, one thing at a time :)
Grover
00:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
I'll go along with this. My focus so far has been creating and expanding articles on LPGA tournaments, current and historical, and secondarily on LPGA players, current and historical. This is a big need because in some cases the information is not available in any unified place anywhere else in print or online. Wikipedia can turn out to be the best source for this information. But I support working to get Jack Nicklaus to featured status. It probably has the best chance. -- Crunch ( talk) 23:23, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
I was updating the European Tour template and i saw that some of the tournaments dont have inboxes. Should they? if so i'm willing to make them. Eddie6705 ( talk) 21:01, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
What do you guys think? 2007 OMEGA Mission Hills World Cup michfan2123 ( talk) 16:15, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
The above-noted article has been nominated for deletion. Please offer your opinions at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toronto Golf Club. PKT ( talk) 12:58, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I've just created the article The Australian Golf Club, and put it up for T:DYK. Hopefully it gets through! Grover ( talk) 10:41, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
My personal new year resolutions for Wikipedia are:
What are everyones goals for the new year? Grover ( talk) 11:32, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
My personal goals are to start bio pages for every golfer who won at least one PGA Tour event in the 1950s and 1960s (1970-2007 is complete); and to start pages for former PGA Tour events held in the 1950s and 1960s (1970-2007 is complete).-- Hokeman ( talk) 17:09, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to get a page up for every LPGA event that ever took place. However, since the pages I'm creating here are better than the records the LPGA has, this is a daunting task. -- Crunch ( talk) 17:34, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
I am pleased to announce that every golfer who won a PGA Tour event since 1970 now has a page in Wikipedia; also every current and former PGA Tour event played since 1970 now has a page in Wikipedia.-- Hokeman ( talk) 14:37, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
I've started trying to convert the infobox, which is now on alot of pages, into an actual standardised template. I've started in userspace, any help would be appreciated, because i've never used the more technical, harder stuff before. Grover ( talk) 08:43, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Someone's nominated this after a few days work on it. Comments and help on improving the article would be appreciated. Grover ( talk) 07:48, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
YES!!! michfan2123 ( talk) 23:29, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
I've gotten a bot to tag every page in Category:Golf, so the unassessed number has gone from 0 to up above 1000 again :). Sorry to "revert" your hard work hehe, but it had to be done sometime. :) Grover ( talk) 09:24, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
After some work i've nominated Seve Ballesteros for good article status. I'm 99% sure that it's ready, as it is fully referenced (apart from one tag which i'll fix tomorrow) and is fairly complete. Since the WP:GAC process is extremely backlogged, there is alot of time to improve the article more. On that note, I think some of us should contribute to that backlog, it is pretty big, especially in the sports section, and it'll have the added advantage of getting Seve reviewed much quicker :) Grover ( talk) 11:41, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
For the section on tour leaders, is this just for the end of the season or can it be updated weekly to show the current leaders? Eddie6705 ( talk) 14:16, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
I assume you're referring to 2008 in golf. This article is intended to be a record of events that happened in golf in 2008, so the Tour leaders are the leaders as of the end of the season. -- Crunch ( talk) 17:31, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Yes i know but can i update it now, such as put Lee Westwood as leader of the European Tour? Eddie6705 ( talk) 18:28, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Well the idea is that it's a record of how things turned out at the end of the year. The concern about putting the current leaders is that it would have to be kept current with the current leaders for all of the tours as they continually change. I'm not sure there are people who can do this. You might have the leader of the Eueropean Tour or of the PGA but who wants to keep it current with the leader of the Futures Tour or of the Sunshine Tour? -- Crunch ( talk) 18:51, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Well i don't mind keeping them all up to date. The only one i can see a problem with is the LPGA tour of Japan. Eddie6705 ( talk) 23:40, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Seriously, Eddie, I don't think you're understanding what the article 2008 in golf is all about. It's an historical record of what happened in golf in 2008. Not a play-by-play. Putting in the current leaders as they change makes no more sense than putting in round-by-round leaders in a tournament and changing it each day of the tournament. Please do not change the purpose of the article. If you want to create another article "Current Professional Golf Tour Leaders" that might be great. In fact, maybe you could make a navigation template box out of it. I will add an introduction to all the "years in golf" articles to clarify their purpose because apparently it is not clear. Thank you for understanding. -- Crunch ( talk) 00:18, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to propose a GA "contest". It would run over 2-3 months, and the editors with the most good articles created by the end of the timespan would get an award. This would serve to increase the output of the project by introducing some friendly competition. What are your thoughts? (if anyone is listening :P) Grover mj 08:39, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I understand what good article means and what the process is. My question was not with Wikipedia's criter for a Good article but with this Project's criteria for what articles are deemed suitable for working on to elevate to that level. A lot of articles would be close to Good level, for example, simply with the addition of some references, an infobox, or properly-tagged images. I don't think we can ever get a group together to work on one article but it would be good to get a varied list of articles that are close to being at the Good level so members can choose the ones they want to work on. Make sense? -- Crunch ( talk) 12:14, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Good points. I've been focusing on documenting things here on Wikipedia that haven't been documented anywhere else. I think that's a good thing. For that reason I'm spending a lot of time creating articles on, for example, Futures Tour events or obscure golf courses that once upon a time hosted a PGA event. It's a lot of extra work to add the references etc. that would get these up to Good status. I don't expect that a lot of other people would care to devote that amount of time. -- Crunch ( talk) 12:36, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Ok, does anyone have any ideas?? Grover mj 00:18, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
In this article: [1] I noticed it doesn't even mention what sport is being written about. Even if it is obvious it should be stated at the beginning of the article. The word "golf" never appears in this article. It only shows up at the very bottom under "categories". The same holds true for the other years of the President's Cup, but the word "golf" only appears in the name of the "Golf Club" where the tournament was played and never states it is the sport of golf being written about. Just thought you might want to know this. Honestly I am not a golf fan and did not know what the President's Cup was and could not tell the subject was golf until I saw a few names I recognized like Jack Nicholas and Tiger Woods. Thanks for your attention in this matter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.203.52.46 ( talk) 00:25, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
I would like to add a section about the recent developments in golf equipment and their affect on the game of golf. Along with this, I would like to include information about the regulations that the USGA and the R&A have imposed on driver technology and the characteristics of golf balls. I am wondering if anyone has any sugguestions on what would be the best article to add this section to. I was thinking either the "golf equipment" article or the equipment development section of the "history of golf" article. Please feel free to give any other suggestions on what you think would make this section more useful. Techwriter32 ( talk) 02:23, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
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Hello,
there are currently 15 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)
I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 16:25, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
I was updating the article on the ballistic pendulum, and ran across a couple of references to its use in late 19th/early 20th century golf research. In particular, the 1911 Britannica mentioned that physicist C. V. Boys used one to measure the elasticity of golf balls. I suspect the following things:
I would appreciate it if anyone could provide me with some more information on Boys' research; either a link to an online source (I found other mentions, but no additional data, with a Google book search) or, if you have a hardcopy resource, either a quick summary or e-mail me some scans I can use as a source. scot ( talk) 01:57, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Is this "WikiProject Golf" run by the PGA tour? Because I find it humorous that the wikipedia page concerning the Casey Martin supreme court case, which was apparently sponsored or created by this WikiProject, reveals almost nothing about the case itself other than describing in great detail Justice Scalia's dissenting opinion which agreed with the PGA Tour. It even says, "The case is principally memorable for its dissent by Justice Antonin Scalia." Are you kidding me? This is a landmark Supreme Court case for persons with disabilites. That would be like saying, "Brown vs the Board of Education was memorable because one of the justices made a spelling mistake in his opinion." Someone please change that page to be more impartial and actually take a minute to explain the case and not just the PGA Tour's argument. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.68.229.247 ( talk) 01:18, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm a long-time contributor to Wikipedia (though I don't log in very often). With Rocco Mediate competing at the 2008 U.S. Open, I did some clean-up to his article a couple of hours ago (see contributions).
I came to your wikiproject page to find out how to use whatever infobox template was appropriate, with the idea of applying it to Mediate's article, which has a template-less, hand-crafted infobox. I saw that you have such a template listed (at Wikipedia:WikiProject Golf#Templates), but almost no one uses it, I assume because of the issues described here.
For now I'll just be bold and update the template section to note the template's current status. Please consider coming up with a {{ Infobox golfer}} that project members actively use so that the rest of us can help you with cleaning up the hand-crafted infobox mess the current golfer articles are in. Thanks. 66.167.138.139 ( talk) 02:31, 16 June 2008 (UTC).
In case you're not aware of it, one of the project's templates is up for deletion: Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2008_June_27#Template:America.27s_Top_10_Golf_Courses. Dreadstar † 17:32, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
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Currently, 3490 articles are assigned to this project, of which 310, or 8.9%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place a template on your project page.
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Was just checking the Australan golf categories and the template wouldnt respond to anything about class= - suggest that whoever made or modified the template for golf needs to check it to make sure it is working - cheers Satu Suro 11:11, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Could someone with access to the September 2006 issue of PGA Magazine please take a look at ALINE Systems and verify that the PGA Magazine citation in this article is relevant. Work toward better using the citation in the context of the article would be appreciated too, but verifying the reference would be quite useful in and of itself. Thanks. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me) 18:30, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
I just joined Wikipedia, and so I start by adding a category to some golf courses, only to discover that it's a nightmarish mess! Category:Golf clubs and courses in Delaware exists alongside Category:Golf clubs and courses in the United States, which exists alongside Category:Golf clubs and courses. Is the categorizing system really this crazy? Shouldn't, for example, the Delaware one AUTOMATICALLY place the article into the United States one and the non-specific one? Isn't there some tool or robot that could do that? First Fairway ( talk) 17:10, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
This concerns a number of golfers from the twenties. The USGA's official US Open site [2] lists a number of golfers including Jim Barnes and Tommy Armour with quotes such as "Jim Barnes, an Englishman representing the Pelham (N.Y.) Country Club" and "Tommy Armour, a Scot who had recently turned professional," but they are listed as Americans throughout Wikipedia. I would guess that the official US Open site is as good a source as you get but I think this might need a good discussion before any changes are made. Topcardi ( talk) 00:51, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
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List of The Open Championship champions is currently at FLC. I've made some comments but am currently undecided whether to support or not. I'm not hugely knowledgable about golf myself, and would feel in a better position to decide whether to support or oppose if at least one person from this wikiproject had at least looked at the list and left a comment at FLC. In particular do you think that prize money should be included or not? Thanks. -- Jameboy ( talk) 22:32, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Many tournament articles include the sponsors name in the title. As per WP:MOSNAME, and since sponsors come and go, these articles should have the generic name of the tournament, and a redirect page be created for the full name including sponsor. Thoughts?
e.g Quinn Insurance British Masters has been renamed from Quinn Direct British Masters for the 2008 edition, despite more often being referred to simply as the British Masters. To avoid endless renaming and the potential double redirects this causes, the tournament article should be titled British Masters, and any variants, Dunhill British Masters etc., should then redirect to it. -- bigissue ( talk) 13:36, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
The article on Srixon has been nominated for deletion. As this project wishes to keep individual pages for the major equipment manufacturers, please have your say here – Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Srixon. -- bigissue ( talk) 09:10, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Since the previous discussion on the golfer infobox seemed to stall before finalizing on a standard template, I have taken the liberty of creating a fairly generic one – Template:Infobox Golfer Biography – and applied it to Peter Jacobsen. Any comment/suggestions? -- bigissue ( talk) 22:00, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
I could see no real need for two seperate infoboxes for tournaments, so have reworked the Template:Infobox Golf Tournament to make most fields optional, and added the additional ones that effectively makes Template:Infobox Former Golf Tournament redundant. Veiws? bigissue ( talk) 14:26, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Could some kind soul please cast an eye over:
I feel that the hook could do with "tightening up" (perhaps a total re-write or "ALT" hook proposal?), and the article needs a lot of work with copy editing, refs, expansion etc etc. Pretty photographs or other good images would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Mais oui! ( talk) 14:28, 3 December 2008 (UTC)