page_title: Sport in Europe
section_title: Golf
hierarchical_section_title: Sport in Europe / Individual sports / Golf
caption_attribution_description: English: Lee Westwood makes a bunker shot at the 2008 Open Camera: Canon EOS 350D Digital License on Flickr (2011-01-27): CC-BY-2.0 Flickr tags: Lee Westwood, Royal Birkdale, Open Championship, 2008, British Open, The Open
context_page_description: Sport in Europe tends to be highly organized with many sports having professional leagues.
  The origins of many of the world's most popular sports today lie in the codification of many traditional games, especially in Great Britain. However, a paradoxical feature of European sport is the remarkable extent to which local, regional and national variations continue to exist, and even in some instances to predominate.
context_section_description: The Open Championship, also known as the British Open, is one of the four major golf tournaments. Other notable golf tournaments in Europe include the BMW PGA Championship, Scottish Open, Irish Open, French Open and Italian Open, which are part of the European Tour.
  Europe competes as a single team in the Ryder Cup and Solheim Cup versus the United States, and the Royal Trophy and EurAsia Cup versus Asia. Also, the Seve Trophy was played between the Great Britain and Ireland and the Continental Europe team.
  Notable male golfers include Nick Faldo, Colin Montgomerie, Rory McIlroy, Pádraig Harrington, Ian Woosnam, Lee Westwood, Henrik Stenson, Bernhard Langer, Martin Kaymer, Seve Ballesteros, José María Olazábal and Miguel Ángel Jiménez. Notable female golfers include Annika Sörenstam, Laura Davies and Suzann Pettersen.
caption: British Open Championship
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