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How do you become a pro golfer?

  • Published
    19 July 2012
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Joe gets some golfing tips

One of the world's biggest golf tournaments has got underway.

The Open is the longest running competition in the history of golf and the only major tournament outside America.

This year it's being held in Lytham and St Anne's in Lancashire.

Joe's been along to find out how some of the best players in the world got into golf.

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