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Frank Nobilo

New Zealand professional golfer (born 1960)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
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Frank Ivan Joseph Nobilo is a New Zealand professional golfer. Nobilo had a successful playing career, winning 14 pro tournaments around the world. He was at his peak during the mid-1990s when he also produced strong finishes in all four major championships. Since his 2003 retirement, Nobilo has worked as a television announcer for golf events.

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“Frank Nobilo” enters the record as new Zealand professional golfer (born 1960). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Frank, Nobilo and Zealand can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Frank Nobilo” 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.