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Lin Keng-chi

professional golfer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ9292731 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lin Keng-chi (Chinese: 林根基, born 1 July 1966) is a Taiwanese professional golfer.

Career

Lin has won five tournaments on the Asian Tour and topped the Tour's money list in 1995. He has also played extensively on the Japan Golf Tour, where he had won three titles. In 2001 he reached the top 100 of the Official World Golf Rankings. He was a member of Asia's winning 2003 Dynasty Cup team.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lin Keng-chi” as professional golfer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966, 1995, 2001, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966-07-01. The account is most persuasive where Keng-chi, professional and golfer can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as professional golfer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Feb 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q9292731. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1966, 1995, 2001 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lin Keng-chi” 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.