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ACE: a familiar name for a hole in one.

ADJUSTABLE CLUBS: these are not allowed. If made to be easily and properly dismantled, for convenience of packing, etc., they are however permitted.

ALBRATROSS: the fanciful name for three under bogey score for a whole; three under par in U.S.A. and Canada.

AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP: that, in England, established in 1886, played over various courses and open to home and overseas amateur golfers of sufficiently high standard.

ANGLES OF LOFT: see Degrees of Loft.

A.O.C.: an abbreviation for American Open Championship (U.S.).

A.P.G.: see American Professional Golfers (and Tour).

APPLE TREE GANG: the name of the pioneer group, led by John Reid, who formed the first golf club in U.S.A. (1888).

ASSOCIATION EUROPÈENNE DE GOLF: the European Golf Association, founded in 1937.

ASSOCIATION OF GOLF WRITERS: an authoritative group of writers specializing in the journalism of golf, its news, history, information, etc. (U.K.).

AUGUSTA: the venue of a very fine American golf course in Georgia , U.S.A., associated with the Masters’ Tournament.