Okay, so I wanted to get a list of all the winners of the Irish Golf Open. Sounds simple, right? Well, it turned out to be a bit more involved than I initially thought. Here’s how I went about it.
First, I fired up my trusty web browser. I figured a quick search would give me what I needed, so I typed in “Irish Golf Open winners”.
I scrolled through a bunch of search results. A few of them looked promising. I mostly use Wikipedia when i am unsure of a result
I noticed that the results page had a pretty comprehensive list. I could see a table with the year, winner, winner’s nationality, the score, and even the venue. Perfect!
I started copying the data, year by year, winner by winner. I decided to create a simple text file to store all this information. As I was copying, I made sure to double-check the names and years, just to avoid any silly mistakes.
- Open a simple text editor.
- Create headers: Year, Winner, Nationality, Score.
- Carefully paste the information for each winner, making sure the formatting is consistent.
- Save the file as something descriptive, like “*”.
It took a little while, because, you know, there’s a lot of history there! But I plowed through it. I just kept copying and pasting, making sure everything lined up nicely in my text file.
After I got all the data copied over, I gave it one last look-over. I checked for any typos or missing information. All good!
Finally, I save it. Job done!
