She played seven seasons on the LPGA Tour (1993-1999) and then returned to Europe where she was appointed chairman of the LET board in 2004. Grace Kim (pictured, far left) needed just one season on the Epson Tour to establish herself as a bona fide LPGA Tour player. Those two victories in the early part of 2016 put Day at nine career PGA Tour victories. Brilliant. Thompson would win The Open Championship five different times, including four times in five years from 1954-1958. At age 24, Lee has registered 51 LPGA top-10s and accumulated $US6.65 million in prizemoney. Hence, we make no apologies for the absence of many fine amateurs. Some may question the omission of Harry Williams, a four-time Victorian Amateur champion, two-time Australian Amateur winner and runner-up to the great Gene Sarazen at the 1936 Australian Open. Dean Dixon is a PGA Pro registered with the Professional Golfers Association of Australia. Universally regarded as one of the nicest people in golf, Bob Shearer won 20 tournaments in Australia and New Zealand and secured the Order of Merit four times (1974, 1977, 1981, 1982). Bold victories were punctuated by a near-fatal car crash, a penchant for sacking caddies, confrontations with fellow players and a bizarre alleged kidnapping in Hawaii in 2015. By the time Ferrier won the 1947 PGA Championship, he had taken up United States citizenship. Graham won five times on the Senior PGA Tour and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2015. Mark Latham, Ross Cameron and Rowan Dean, or "Trump's Aussie Mates", have teamed up for a new panel show on Sky News called Outsiders. Dean has years of teaching experience and can help you improve your game. In team play, he helped Australia to victory at the 1970 World Cup (with Bruce Devlin) and twice at the Dunhill Cup in St Andrews (1985, 1986). Marsh had four top-10s at the British Open and two more top-10s from just 13 appearances in US Majors. Margie Masters won five Victorian juniors and five straight womens Victorian Opens (1959-1963). The LIV Golf Tour touches down in Adelaide this week and the hype-o-meter reading is already dangerously high in the City of Churches. Travis immersed himself in the game and reached the semi-finals of the 1898 US Amateur. Gregory John Norman was born on February 10, 1955 in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. Tournament victories: 68Best Major result: 4th, British Open (1983)Highest ranking on OWGR: 29th (in the inaugural ranking in 1986). In 2022, the LIV Golf Series emerged as a rival to the U.S.-based PGA Tour, with several big names jumping the pond to join the startup golf league. He is committed to the 14-event LIV Golf schedule and - at this point - will be eligible to play in all four majors. Tournament victories: 48Best Major result: T-3rd, British Open (1948)Highest ranking on OWGR: N/A. Turned Pro. PGA TOUR, PGA TOUR Champions, and the Swinging Golfer design are registered trademarks. Capped a watershed year by becoming just the third Australian to receive the Vardon Trophy for the Tours leading scoring average. So we have defined Australias 50 Greatest Golfers by what they have achieved in open competition against professional and amateurs alike. Throughout his career Ben h. Dean Stanley Geyer is a singer, songwriter, martial artist, and actor belonging to South Africa. This is a list of golfers, ordered alphabetically by place of origin or residence. Historically, the Australian circuit provided plenty of opportunities for men, especially Opens and PGAs at state level. In the American college system, she was NCAA Player of the Year in 2003. He won 11 PGA titles, including the 2015 PGA Championship, 2016 Players Championship and two WGCMatch Play victories. The Australian golfer who earned the nickname the "Great White Shark" and suffered heartbreak along with an abundance of success throughout a Hall of Fame career knew that the best golf in the . PGA. Six Presidents Cup appearances for the Internationals are bettered only by Adam Scott, Ernie Els and Vijay Singh. He was a great competitor who refused to be intimidated by Greg Norman at his peak. We've ranked the best Australian golfers in order from 41 to 1. Her victory at the 2009 Australian Ladies Masters was the best of six ALPG tournament wins. Others named Dean Tonkin. The 2022 Asia-Pacific Amateur champion is exempt into both The Masters at Augusta National in April and The Open Championship at Hoylake in July at which point he will weigh up his options. Infamously led the 1999 British Open at Carnoustie after an opening 71 but followed with an 86 to miss the cut. Twice a runner-up in Majors, Jack Newton was a phenomenal talent and one of golfs great characters until a near-fatal aeroplane accident ended his career at the age of 33. By 1912 golf was no longer a priority after buying a farm near Pingelly south-east of Perth, however he did win the inaugural WA Open. In 1920 Whitton won the Helms Award as the most outstanding Australasian athlete. Tournament victories: 6Best Major result: N/AHighest ranking on OWGR: N/A. Tournament victories: 33Best Major result: 12th, British Open (1964)Highest ranking on OWGR: N/A. At the 1992 Open she was runner-up to Patty Sheehan. Normans exploits abroad are legendary. When Jason Day won the 2016 WGC Dell Match Play Championship, it was his second consecutive win on the PGA Tour. For instance, when comparing Adam Scott, whose father was a PGA professional, with that of Kel Nagle, who was largely self-taught. 7/27/1998 (24) Birthplace. Thomson preferred playing in Europe and the Far East and won 10 national championships, including the Australian Open three times and NZ Open nine times. For good measure, he added a fifth Open title in 1965, plus nine other Top 10 finishes in the tournament. Tournament victories: 10Best Major result: Won PGAChampionship (1990)Highest ranking on OWGR: 25th. Peter Thomson Born: 1929 Died: 2018 Tour Wins: 85 Majors: 5 Arguably the greatest Open Championship golfer ever, Thomson won that particular major five times and had 13 other top-10s in it. Dean Dixon Golf Professional and Golf Australia regional development officer at Golf Australia Bendigo, Victoria, Australia 74 followers 72 connections Join to view profile Golf. Graham won eight times on the USPGA, plus five times on the Champions Tour, and also had wins in Europe, Australia, South America, South Africa and Japan. Always a wonderful putter, Baddeleys progress was hindered by frequent tinkering with his swing. At his peak, Greg Norman was much more than a two-time British Open winner. Four golfers who get honorable mentions are: When you visit the site, Dotdash Meredith and its partners may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. A prolific winner in Australia post-WWII, Eric Cremin enjoyed some epic battles with Norman von Nida, Ossie Pickworth and Kel Nagle. (See also golf.) However, 29th at the Masters was his best result from 10 Major appearances in the US. His American breakthrough came at the 2008 WNB Golf Classic where his 11-shot victory tied the record for the largest winning margin on the now Korn Ferry Tour. At the 1965 Australian Open won by Player, Phillips tied for second with Jack Nicklaus despite seven three-putts in a first-round 71. Five British Open triumphs, three second places and 18 top-10 results. Applebys career success followed the tragic deaths of his first wife Renay and next-door neighbour Payne Stewart that would have broken a lesser man. Leading all four Majors through 54 holes in one season (Saturday Slam in 1986), Losing all four Majors in playoffs (1984 US Open, 1987 Masters, 1989 British Open, 1993 PGA Championship). An unassuming country lad from Warrnambool who is the only Australian to claim PGA Tour Rookie of the Year (2009). Along with victory at the 1970 World Cup (with David Graham), Devlin was prolific at home, winning 19 titles on the Australian circuit. In a stellar amateur career, Lee became the first Australian to win the US Girls Junior. Geoff Ogilvy plays during the 2013 Arnold Palmer Invitational. Lester was surrounded by horses from a young age. Whitton also won the Queensland Open plus 13 significant amateur titles: two Australian Amateurs (1922, 1923), five Victorian Amateurs (1919, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924), four Riversdale trophies, a Queensland Amateur and NSW Amateur. Winning the 2004 Players Championship authenticated him as a budding superstar of the sport. Follow along as we publish live pga news coverage of your favorite tour player and their performance each week. Crampton finished second in four majors during that periodthe 1972 Masters and U.S. Open, the 1973 PGA Championship and 1975 PGA Championship. Wielding a broomstick putter and wearing his trademark fedora, Peter Senior was a constant leaderboard presence in Australia where he won 26 tournaments across five decades. Popeye produced one of the most miraculous shots in PGA Tour history, holing out from the fairway to win the 2004 Ford Championship at Doral in a playoff. Tournament victories: 11Best Major result: 11th, US Open (2002)Highest ranking on OWGR: 23rd. Elkington was in another playoff at a major, but lost the 2002 British Open to Ernie Els (Stuart Appleby and Thomas Levet were also in the playoff). In no particular order, we start with Peter Thomson. THE COURSE An elite 48-man/12-team field will tee . Yet for all he achieved on course, his greatest contribution is through his charitable work with Challenge Cancer Support Network. Nagle lost an 18-hole playoff for the 1965 US Open to Gary Player. Jack Newton, who lost to Tom Watson in a 1975 British Open playoff and tied for second behind Seve Ballesteros at the 1980 . Lunn cruised to an eight-stroke Open victory at Woburn, one of two wins in 1993 when she topped the LET Order of Merit. An unfashionable short-hitter, Nick OHern transformed himself into the consummate professional who was a two-time Presidents Cup representative (2005, 2007). It was a win many felt was a long time coming but which now gives him the opportunity to play his way onto the DP World Tour in 2024. The transition to the pay-for-play ranks happens long before young golfers turn professional. Cremin was a seven-time runner-up at the Australian PGA in its matchplay format, including three losses to The Von. Three years later he earned his first victory as a professional at the 2022 WA PGA Championship at Kalgoorlie. All funds. So Nagle's best years were arguably already behind him. Majors: 0. Until the emergence of Gary Player, Ferrier was the most successful non-American in the history of the PGA Tour. However he didnt hit a golf ball until October 1896 three months before his 35th birthday. She achieved three LPGA victories in 1981, including her first Major at the Peter Jackson Classic. Harwood had 12 regular tour wins and 22 senior victories. Hailed for playing one of the finest rounds in Major championship history, hitting all 18 greens in a final-round 67 to win the US Open at Merion. He finished second to Braden Becker at the 2021 WA Open, was tied for second at TPS Murray River and in his second start as a professional was tied for 10th at the ISPS HANDA Australian Open. Yet Nagle was competitive throughout his 40s. It was a Cinderella story given he had taken 18 months to recover from the debilitating Ross River fever when his weight ballooned to 120 kilograms. His 14 PGA Tour victories ranks equal third behind Greg Norman and Jim Ferrier. The opportunity to ply his trade in the US has eluded Green up until this point but perhaps this time his timing is absolutely perfect. He is credited with helping to establish the Hong Kong Open in 1959 and subsequently the Far East Circuit. Shearer played nine seasons on the PGA Tour and achieved his sole victory at the 1982 Tallahassee Open. She carried that momentum into LPGA Q-Series where she finished tied for 16th to earn her 2022 LPGA Tour card where she finished 75th on the Race to CME Globe standings. According to a report by CNN affiliate, 9News Queensland, it was Brown's first ace . Greg Norman is probably so well-known for his lossesa combination of some chokes (such as the 1996 Masters) and some rotten luck (such as the 1987 Masters)that his successes are often overlooked. To put that in perspective, Adam Scott, Geoff Ogilvy, Stuart Appleby, Robert Allenby and Greg Norman won six titles collectively. His lone Australian Open triumph came in 1959, however he was a runner-up on six occasions. Passionate. All 10 of his PGA Tour victories (seventh best by Australians) came in the 1990s. He is a four-time Presidents Cup member. He twice won the season-opening Tournament of Champions in Hawaii (2009, 2010). Then he won the 2013 Masters. Australia's first winner of an LPGA tournament was a pioneer as an amateur and professional. Karrie Webb. 2023 Australian Golf Digest. It had been 20 years since Karrie Webb won majors in back-to-back years (2001-2002) and Lee is now well placed to join Webb and Peter Thomson as the only Aussies to win majors three years running. He starred in his rookie season on the PGA Tour in 2009, achieved the first of five PGA titles in 2012 and made the first of four Presidents Cup appearances in 2013. Australian Golf StrategyR&A Women in Golf CharterSafe, fair & inclusive sportDisability Inclusion Golf mindfulness experience Play Where to play Find a place to playHow to join a clubDifferent formats Scoring & handicap Smith will turn 30 a month after he defends his Open Championship title at Royal . Phillips won seven titles in Asia. . Watson won. Who are the best golfers to come from Down Under? Colin Montgomerie. In the eight years from 1951-58, Peter Thomson won the British Open four times, was runner-up twice and finished sixth the other time. One of those victories was the 2015 PGA Championship, which Day won with a final score of 20-under. To overcome a troubled youth and rise to world No.1 is one of the great Australian sporting stories. In 1923 Kirkwood departed for America and won nine tournaments in two years on what became the PGA Tour before joining Walter Hagen to play exhibition matches and give clinics. Australia's batting wunderkind of the 1980s and '90s had done nothing less than revolutionise limited overs cricket . After serving in the US Army during World War II, Ferrier won 18 times on the PGA Tour from 1944-1961 (second most by an Australian). Daly is known for his non-country club appearances and attitude, his driving distance off the tee as well as his rough-and-tumble personal life. A trailblazer not only for Australian golf but womens golf in general. Tournament victories: 28Best Major result: 16th, British Open (1951)Highest ranking on OWGR: N/A. Of course, its problematical to compare a current-day player on the lucrative PGA Tour (who has an entourage of service providers) with post-WWII golfers who traipsed the fairways of Britain. Want to recieve exclusive news, videos, tournament highlights, golf important tips and more ? Scott has eight other wins on the European Tour (outside of the Masters and now two WGC victories). Developing and growing golf in Australia while maintaining a commitment to the integrity of the game. Could play both right and left-handed and was a renowned trick-shot artist. PGA TOUR Stats, bio, video, photos, results, and career highlights A dominant force in the junior ranks both here and abroad, the gifted prodigy turns 19 in July and now has to assert himself in open amateur events. Get the latest golf, now. As an amateur he won 12 tournaments against professionals. Won his sixth WA Open at age 48 26 years after his first as an amateur. Vote up who you believe to be the top golfers from Australia, and even add any up and coming players to the list if they aren't already here. Henry Cotton. Also a philanthropist, Norman established the Greg Norman Golf Foundation, which provides guidance to students. The Australian golfer has also won the Emirates Australian Open twice, in 2015 and 2019. And as the only man to captain the Internationals to Presidents Cup glory (1998), Thomson is in a class of his own. ", New Zealands Top 50 Golf Courses 2019/20, Adelaides top adventures for sports lovers, Course review: The Heritage Golf & Country Club, Victoria, First Australian to be officially recognised as world No.1, spending 331 weeks on top, Winning 20 titles on the PGA Tour, the most by an Australian, Sharing the record for most Australian Opens titles by an Australian (five), Holding the record for most Australian Masters (six), Shooting 24-under par to win the 1994 Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, Winning the PGA Tours Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average three times (1989, 1990, 1994), Leading money winner on the PGA Tour three times (1986, 1990, 1995), Leading the PGA Tours total driving statistic three times (1988, 1989, 1993), Registering 129 top-10s from 330 appearances on the PGA Tour (39.1%). Another great golfer from Canada is Graham DeLaet. Born in Maldon, near Bendigo in central Victoria, Travis emigrated to America at the age of 24. Deane Lester was born at Dromana, and spent most of his childhood on stud farms on the Mornington Peninsula. Young Amelia might feature on this list for many years to come. But the tournaments he has won have mostly been marquee events. With a swing honed by hard work, it wasnt unusual for the Moss Vale native to hit 1,000 balls and play 18 holes in a day. Posted six top-three results in Majors, including a four-way playoff loss at the 2002 British Open and a share of second at the 2005 PGA. A superb wind player, Marc Leishman has adjusted to the step up in class at each stage of his development since turning pro in 2005. Surly. Career ended in shocking circumstances in 1983 but Newton showed enormous courage to reinvent himself as the doyen of golf commentators, a passionate advocate for junior golf and a significant charitable fundraiser. He moved to America to try the USPGA Tour in the 1940s, and he was winning tournaments there from 1944 through 196118 wins in all, including his one major. The Greg Norman Medal, awarded annually since 2015 to Australia's best male or female professional golfer on the international stage, was presented to Lee at Brisbane's City Hall, the occasion also serving as a launching pad for the Australian PGA and WPGA championships, which begin at Royal Queensland tomorrow. But he was born in Manly, New South Wales, and won 10 times on the Australasian Tour in the 1930s. Golfer Kel Nagle with the Claret Jug (and his wife) in 1960. From the senior ranks to major championships all the way down to world junior titles, the Australian flag flew prominently on golfs global leaderboards in 2022. Bruce Crampton was one of the best golfers in the world in the first half of the 1970s. By Martin Inglis 26 January, 2016. In 1921 he left for Europe and beat the great Harry Vardon in his first match and tied for sixth at the British Open. You will forgive Stephanie Kyriacou if the past three years have flashed by in something of a blur. He gave up on the U.S. Tour and moved home to the . Steve Rintoul, a product of the sleepy fishing village of Mollymook on the south coast of NSW, is these days a veteran amongst a band of full-time officials on . Graham had a reputation as a tough, big-tournament player. Adam Scott holds a special spot in the hearts of Australians as the man who ended 79 years of anguish at the Masters when he captured our first green jacket in 2013. Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti)American singer and actor (David) Dean Rusk54th U.S. Secretary of State Dean Gooderham Acheson51st U.S. Secretary of State Dean McDermottCanadian,American actor Dean George CainAmerican actor Dean Ambrose (born Jonathan Good)American professional wrestler Dean PotterAmerican rock climber and extreme athlete . Hetherington became a star on the LPGA Tour across 13 seasons (1997-2009) during which she won eight times and $US5.73 million in prizemoney. Bruce Devlin had shown his potential by leading Australia to victory at the 1958 Eisenhower Trophy and capturing the 1959 Australian Amateur. Nine News. Associated Press. Nevertheless he has won four PGA Tour titles. Pearce toured Britain and Ireland in 1911 and won a tournament in Peterhead. The Victorian left-hander made up for lost time in 2022 with two victories in Europe, back-to-back wins on the SParms PGA Legends Tour in Australia and medalist honours at Champions Tour Qualifying School in December. U.S. officials have charged the former chairman of Dean Foods with passing inside information to Las Vegas sports bettor Billy Walters, in a case that also involves professional golfer Phil. The career of Craig Parry deserves more credence for the manner in which he competed against taller power hitters with greater leverage. His 2010 triumph at the Greenbrier Classic included a final-round 59 that led to PGA Tour Comeback Player of the Year. Regarded by some of the best judges in Australian golf has one of the most exceptional talents to have emerged in recent years, the 14-year-old played her way into the Womens Australian Open via the Monday qualifier in December and went on to make the 36-hole cut. Baker-Finch shared second place at the 1992 Players Championship and notched three Major top-10s at Augusta National and two at St Andrews where he shared the 54-hole lead at the 1984 Open. Chronic back pain has threatened to end Days career and also curtailed his playing appearances in Australia where his lone victory came at the 2013 World Cup of Golf (both the individual title and the teams event, with Adam Scott). Rose to a career-high No.3 on the OWGR in 1997 after a second Players Championship victory. But he missed many playing opportunities in his prime (age 25-31) due to WWII. Marshs 15 Australasian titles include the Masters and PGA in 1982 when he won four times. Webb completed the Super Career Grand Slam when she won her second British Open in 2002. Marsh was also a member of Australias successful team at the inaugural Alfred Dunhill Cup in 1985. He also won once in Europe and the 1989 World Cup (with Peter Fowler). Ogilvy would validate his Major winner status with a bunch of top-shelf performances. Travis was the quintessential Renaissance Man as a golf writer, publisher, instructor and course architect, entering the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1979. And there is likely to be plenty to choose from. Besides, he was the runner-up in the Open Championship 2012. Graham Marsh, 20 wins in Japan, 15 on the Australasian Tour, 10 on the European Tour, six on the Champions Tour. BY Brentley Romine April 11, 2023 Two days after Brooks Koepka called he and Viktor Hovland out for playing "brutally slow" Sunday at the Masters, Patrick Cantlay got a chance to defend himself.. A week earlier, Day won the Arnold Palmer Invitational. His 14 PGA Tour victories (including two WGC wins) are the fourth most by an Australian. Coached by Gary Barter, predictions and expectations continue to build on how good Guan could be. And we rate them from one through 10 (plus toss in a few honorable mentions). We looked more favourably at players who achieved success abroad. But the Sydney-raised son of an insurance clerk was much more than that: elite amateur, golf writer, US Army staff sergeant, club designer and club professional. In 2007 at age 19, Day became the youngest winner of a PGA Tour-sanctioned event when he triumphed on the now Korn Ferry Tour. Masters won the 1967 Quality Chekd Classic and 1968 Yankee Ladies Team Championship (with Clifford Ann Creed). While Stephen Leaney fell three strokes shy of the American, he was four clear of third place in his only Major top-10. In an illustrious LPGA career, Webb was a two-time Player of the Year (1999, 2000), three-time leading money winner and three-time Vare Trophy winner for best scoring average. Tournament victories: 10Best Major result: 2nd, Womens Western Open (1966)Highest ranking on RWWGR: N/A. 0:00. He had also beaten Woods to win the 2002 NZ Open. Pearce signed up for the War just days after the initial landing in Gallipoli. Davis won the 1988 Bicentennial Classic at Royal Melbourne against arguably the strongest field ever assembled for an Australian strokeplay tournament. The blight on his playing record is that he won just once in America (1956 Texas International Open) and played just 13 US Majors (Thomson never competed at the PGA). He has married in 2009 and his wife was named Ellie . Born in Sydney, Joe Kirkwood left home at age 10 to work at a sheep station in the outback where the boss introduced him to golf. Leading the 2008 British Open with nine holes to play at the age of 53. Tournament victories: 7Best Major result: 2nd, Womens British Open (2010)Highest ranking on RWWGR: 19th. Jack Newton, an Australian golfer whose lone PGA Tour win came at the Buick-Goodwrench Open in the tournament's return to Warwick Hills in Grand Blanc in 1978, has died. Genius & Inventor My World, Inc. Apr 1942 - Present 81 years 1 . He won 11 European tournaments and partnered Peter Thomson to win the World Cup in 1954 and 1959. In 1990 Ogle tasted victory in Europe and captured the Australian PGA Championship. An eight-stroke winner of the Australian Ladies Classic at Bonville as an amateur in February 2020, Kyriacou (pictured, far left) turned pro almost immediately but had her Ladies European Tour debut season thwarted by COVID-19. Short in stature but a giant in terms of tenacity, Craig Parry slayed the games goliaths during two decades at the top of professional golf. Tournament victories: 102Best Major result: 5 wins British Open (1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1965)Highest ranking on OWGR: N/A. A renowned hard worker, Graham claimed his first Major at the 1979 PGA Championship when he beat Ben Crenshaw in a playoff. Ben has played golf for more than 20 years and has 5 years coaching experience. SEARCH SUBSCRIBE. But he probably has nightmares about Jack Nicklaus. With her fifth LPGA victory at the 2019 LA Open she rose to world No.2. His sole European victory was the rain-shortened Woodlawn International Invitational. Sagittarius Golfer #11. Tournament victories: 41Best Major result: T-13th, British Open (1979)Highest ranking on OWGR: N/A. It was a spectacular performance to upstage the likes of Greg Norman, Colin Montgomerie and Nick Faldo and become the first amateur in 39 years to lift the Stonehaven Cup. Peter Senior. Tournament victories: 17Best Major result: T-24th, PGA Championship (2009)Highest ranking on OWGR: 52nd. He was the PGA Tour's leading money winner three times, its scoring leader three times, and its Player of the Year in 1995. underwent successful back surgery and will miss the rest of the golf season. That a little girl from Ayr in Tropical North Queensland could rise to become the best woman golfer in the world is a fairytale. He first toured there in 1946 at the age of 32. The Australian golfer who earned the nickname the "Great White Shark" and suffered heartbreak along with an abundance of success throughout a Hall of Fame career knew that the best golf in the . After a successful 2018 campaign Lee received the Greg Norman Medal. His five Open triumphs spanned three decades (1912, 1913, 1926, 1929, 1931). She made amends in 2021 with a victory and eight further top 10s to wrap up Rookie of the Year honours. Ogle teased that he could rival Greg Norman, bursting onto the scene as Australasian Rookie of the Year in 1986 and winning a bunch of titles at home and in the South Pacific. He had six other Top 5 finishes in majors. Walter Travis has a unique place in the pantheon of Australian golfers as a three-time US Amateur champion and the first non-Brit to win the British Amateur. 26 Year Old Golfer #6. He destroyed a star-studded field to win the 2002 WGCNEC Invitational and thwart Tiger Woods quest for a four-peat. Passed away at age 51. 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