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Polish Open (golf)

golf tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ14668819 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Polish Open is the oldest and most prestigious professional golf tournament in Poland. First played in 1994, from 1996 to 1999 it was included on the Challenge Tour, and subsequently on the Pro Golf Tour (formerly known as the EPD Tour).

In its capacity as a national open golf championship, starting with 1994 champion Gary Marks the winner earned qualification to the Sarazen World Open, an unofficial money event on the PGA Tour 1994–1999 featuring national open winners.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Polish Open (golf)” is golf tournament. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Polish, golf and tournament, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 1996, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996. For this dossier, Polish, golf and tournament is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “golf tournament” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14668819. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994, 1996 and 1999.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Polish Open (golf) primary sources, Polish Open (golf) archive and Polish research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Polish Open (golf)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.