The 1983 U.S. Women's Open was the 38th time this major championship was played. But it was the first time the winner was an Australian go...| www.golfcompendium.com
Kathy Ahern was a teen prodigy in the 1960s who went on to LPGA success in the 1970s, including winning a major championship. Her career w...| www.golfcompendium.com
The 1974 Curtis Cup was the 18th time this tournament was played. Following Team USA's victory, the all-time standings were 14 wins for Team...| www.golfcompendium.com
The golf game known as 3 Balls/3 Points is a game for a group of three, and on each hole a maximum of three points is available to be won by...| www.golfcompendium.com
Two-Person Best Ball is the name of a golf competition format that can be used for tournaments, or can be played within a group of four golf...| www.golfcompendium.com
The format known as Two-Ball Low Net is for golf tournaments that use four-person teams. On each hole, the two lowest net scores among the f...| www.golfcompendium.com
Golf fans and media sometimes debate the "best golfer without a major" — those golfers who've won a lot but have not yet claimed a major cha...| www.golfcompendium.com
Fewer than 120 golfers in the history of the PGA Tour have won 10 or more tournaments, fewer than 70 have won at least 15. But Sam Snead and...| www.golfcompendium.com
One way of considering a golfer's peak is to look only at his single, best year. And we've done that in our list of golfers with the most PG...| www.golfcompendium.com
What's the most-famous year of any golfer in PGA Tour history? What's the best year any golfer has ever had on the PGA Tour? "Byron Nelson...| www.golfcompendium.com
The Greenbrier Classic was a PGA Tour golf tournament in the 2010s played at The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia. It took place on the re...| www.golfcompendium.com
The LIV Golf League was launched in 2022 with eight tournaments. In seasons since, its schedule has included 14 tournaments. So the golfers ...| www.golfcompendium.com
What are the lowest scores for a single, 18-hole round in the history of the PGA Tour? The current 18-hole scoring record is 58, and only ...| www.golfcompendium.com
How many golfers have scored 58 on one of the world's major golf tours? So far, there are seven such rounds in golf history, all of them s...| www.golfcompendium.com
What is the all-time best score posted for 18 holes during an LPGA Tour tournament? That record is 59. There are also a handful of LPGA go...| www.golfcompendium.com
Which golfers in the history of the Walker Cup won the most points for their team? Below is the list of all Walker Cup golfers with at least...| www.golfcompendium.com
The 2025 Walker Cup was the 50th time this competition, which dates to 1922, was played. The Walker Cup is played every two years between ...| www.golfcompendium.com
The oldest golfer ever to play in the Walker Cup was in his mid-50s, and the youngest-ever Walker Cup golfer wasn't yet 17 years old.| www.golfcompendium.com
The namesake of the Walker Cup is George Herbert Walker. And the Walker Cup is just the third-most-famous thing named after him: His grandso...| www.golfcompendium.com
The list of Walker Cup captains goes back to 1922, the first year this biennial tournament for amateur male golfers began. Every other year,...| www.golfcompendium.com
The Walker Cup is an international team golf tournament played every two years (in odd-numbered years). The event is played by amateur male ...| www.golfcompendium.com
Dorothy Germain Porter was a competitive tournament golfer from the 1930s into the 1990s, from her mid-teens into her 70s. She won the U.S. ...| www.golfcompendium.com
The United States Golf Association, or USGA, conducts many championship tournaments every year. Which golfers have won the most over their c...| www.golfcompendium.com
More than 30 holes-in-one have been made in the history of the U.S. Women's Open, the biggest tournament in women's golf and one that date...| www.golfcompendium.com
Fairways Minus Putts is the name of a game for individual golfers who are playing normal stroke play. This game rewards hitting the fairway ...| www.golfcompendium.com
Lone Ranger is the name of a golf tournament format for four-person teams. On each hole, one member of the team is designated as the Lone Ra...| www.golfcompendium.com
"Fairways and Greens" is the name of a golf game that can be played by an group of golfers (foursome, threesome, twosome), but it is best pl...| www.golfcompendium.com
Does Tiger Woods fart a lot? Hey, there's no way to ask that question politely, or delicately. But ask it we must, because "Tiger Woods fart" is a phrase that gets searched a lot on the Web. And if people are looking for information about El Tigre and his butt trumpet, well, we're willing to step into that fray (but not into his exhaust plume). (Related: That time a PGA Tour golfer was fined for| Golf Compendium
The 1970 U.S. Women's Open was the 25th time this major championship tournament was played. For the second consecutive year, Donna Caponi emerged as the champion. Winner: Donna Caponi, 287 Where it was played: Muskogee Country Club in Muskogee, Oklahoma Tournament dates: July 2-5, 1970 Leaders after first round: Donna Caponi, Carol Mann, 69 Leader after second round: Donna Caponi, Carol Mann| Golf Compendium
The PGA Tour's award for leading the tour in season-long scoring average is called the Byron Nelson Award. It has been awarded since 1990. Below is the list of all the award's multiple winners, plus we'll also look at the most-frequent winners of the now-defunct PGA of America award for low scoring average. The Byron Nelson Award was created by the PGA Tour in 1990 with a requirement of 50 or| Golf Compendium
Garbage is a golf betting game that involves assigning values to a long list of achievements (sometimes including negative points for mistakes) and awarding points to golfers as they record those achievements throughout a round. Basically, Garbage is a game that combines lots of other side bets into on larger, catch-all game. You probably know the game of Garbage even if you don't know it by| Golf Compendium
The 1971 U.S. Women's Open was the 26th time this major championship was played. JoAnne Carner raced to her first win in a major by seven strokes. Winner: JoAnne Carner, 288 Where it was played: Kahkwa Club in Erie, Pennsylvania Tournament dates: June 24-27, 1971 Leaders after first round: JoAnne Carner, Donna Caponi, 70 Leader after second round: JoAnne Carner, 73 Leader after third round:| Golf Compendium
The 2029 Ryder Cup will be the 47th time this competition is played. The Ryder Cup is an every-other-year match-play spectacle contested by two teams of male professional golfers, Team Europe and Team United States. 2029 Ryder Cup dates: TBA, but Ryder Cups are typically played in the range of mid-September to early October. A late-September date is most likely. Golf course: Hazeltine National| Golf Compendium
Fourball is one of the three formats (in addition to foursomes and singles) played at the Ryder Cup. Below is the list of golfers who won the most fourball matches in Ryder Cup play. The record-holder is Ian Woosnam, and with 10 fourball victories over his Ryder Cup career, Woosnam is the only golfer so far to reach double-digit match victories in this format. (Fourball was added to the Ryder| Golf Compendium
Which golfers in Ryder Cup history have the most wins in foursomes matches? The four biggest winners in foursomes were all Team Europe players, and a Spanish golfer is the one on top. That Spanish golfer is Sergio Garcia. Garcia was part of the winning side in 12 foursomes matches over his Ryder Cup career, the only golfer so far to reach 12 wins. As a reminder, foursomes is the format that is| Golf Compendium
When a Ryder Cup team takes a lead into the final day — especially a lead of more than one point — it usually goes on to victory. But not every time! A handful of times, the Ryder Cup team that trailed by multiple points going into the final-day singles session wound up winning. And in two of those instances, the trailing team overcame a 4-point deficit to win. Those two instances share the| Golf Compendium
The Kanto Pro Championship was a men's professional golf tournament in Japan that existed for decades before the Japan Tour (JGTO) was founded in 1973. The tournament was played around the Kanto region (which includes Tokyo) in the eastern part of Japan. First played: 1931 Last played: 1990 Jumbo Ozaki's very first win on the Japan Tour happened in this tournament in 1973, year of the tour's| Golf Compendium
Koichi Ono was a Japanese golfer who won tournaments in Japan from the late 1940s into the 1960s. He was one of the first Japanese golfers to become known internationally, and was part of the winning team in an event that spurred the explosion of golf in Japan. Birth name: Son Shi-Kin Date of birth: May 19, 1919 Place of birth: Dalian, Manchuria Date of death: November 6, 2000 His| Golf Compendium
Has any father-and-son duo of golfers both played in the Ryder Cup? Yes, there have been a very small number of father-and-son Ryder Cuppers...| www.golfcompendium.com
The U.S. Women's Open was played for the 50th time in 1995, and it was won for the first time by Annika Sorenstam. But Sorenstam, who had ...| www.golfcompendium.com
Murle (Lindstrom) Breer was a U.S. Women's Open champion in the early 1960s. Her LPGA Tour career was interrupted by family concerns, but sh...| www.golfcompendium.com
Kathy Cornelius was an LPGA Tour golfer from the 1950s into the 1980s. She recorded multiple wins, but the biggest of them was a victory i...| www.golfcompendium.com
Barbara McIntire was an American amateur golf star of the 1950s and 1960s. She won three major championships of amateur golf, and came close...| www.golfcompendium.com
The U.S. Women's Open is the biggest tournament in women's professional golf, and in its history two golfers younger than 20 have won it. Am...| www.golfcompendium.com
Ruth Jessen was a professional golfer who won tournaments on the LPGA Tour from the late 1950s into the early 1970s. Her win total reached d...| www.golfcompendium.com
The U.S. Women's Open is the biggest tournament in women's golf and on the LPGA Tour every year. Which golfers have gone low? Let's take a...| www.golfcompendium.com
Which golfers have won the most major championships in women's golf ? Annika Sorenstam, Kathy Whitworth and Nancy Lopez are all on the list ...| www.golfcompendium.com
The Chevron Championship is one of the five majors of women's professional golf, played early in every LPGA Tour season. It has been one of ...| www.golfcompendium.com
The Evian Championship is one of the five majors of women's professional golf. It is played annually in France at the Evian Resort Golf Cl...| www.golfcompendium.com
The KPMG Women's PGA Championship is the second-oldest of the tournaments that make up the five majors of women's golf. But it has only be...| www.golfcompendium.com
The Women's Western Open is another former LPGA Tour tournament whose origins actually pre-dated the formation of the tour.| www.golfcompendium.com
The Women's British Open is one of the five major championships of women's golf. It is currently co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour...| www.golfcompendium.com
The U.S. Women's Open is the national championship of women's golf in the United States and one of the five majors of women's golf. It is ...| www.golfcompendium.com
The Titleholders Championship originated long before the LPGA Tour existed, but is retroactively considered a major championship by the LPGA...| www.golfcompendium.com
The 1985 U.S. Women's Open was the 40th time this major championship took place. The champ was a first-time winner as a pro.| www.golfcompendium.com
The 1986 U.S. Open was the 86th time the tournament was played. The winner was a major champion in his 40s, and his victory here establish...| www.golfcompendium.com
The 1978 U.S. Women's Open was the 33rd time this major championship was played. The champion, Hollis Stacy, won it for the second year ru...| www.golfcompendium.com
A "wire-to-wire winner" is a golfer who wins a tournament by holding the lead following each round of play. Winning a tournament wire-to-wir...| www.golfcompendium.com
The U.S. Women's Open is the biggest tournament in women's golf, so earning low amateur honors there is a big achievement. A true open, many...| www.golfcompendium.com
Gloria Ehret had a 15-year-career on the LPGA Tour that started in the mid-1960s. It included a couple victories, one of which was in a majo...| www.golfcompendium.com
How many times has a golfer won two consecutive U.S. Women's Opens? Back-to-back victories in this, the biggest of the women's majors , aren...| www.golfcompendium.com
What is the tournament record at the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament for most wins? That record is four, and it is shared by two of the bi...| www.golfcompendium.com
Susie Maxwell Berning was an LPGA Tour golfer whose best years were from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. After coming out of Oklahoma and fi...| www.golfcompendium.com
Shelley Hamlin won several tournaments in her LPGA career, which stretched from the 1970s into the 1990s. And twice she won tournaments sh...| www.golfcompendium.com
How many pairs (or sets, even) of brothers have both played in the Ryder Cup? Not many, which is not surprising. Being good enough to earn a Ryder Cup berth is uncommon, after all, in the golf world. Having two (or more) golfers in the same family who are that good is much rarer. But, in fact, five families so far have sent two or more brothers into the Ryder Cup. The Ryder Cup is played every| Golf Compendium
The Ryder Cup is the trophy — the "cup" in the event's title refers to the trophy itself. And the Ryder Cup trophy is one of the most-famous in golf. How big is it? What is made of? Who created it? Who is the figure of a golfer that tops the cup? Let's dive into the cup. We'll start with its backstory. The creation of the Ryder Cup trophy began in 1926 when the competition's namesake put up| Golf Compendium
Ed Fiori won several tournaments on the PGA Tour in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But he is best-remembered for being the journeyman pro who tracked down and beat a young, first-year pro named Tiger Woods in 1996, well after Fiori had last been a threat to win. Full name: Edward Ray Fiori Date of birth: April 21, 1953 Place of birth: Lynwood, California Date and place of death: July 6,| Golf Compendium
A mulligan in golf is a "do-over." Don't like the shot you just hit? Declare a "mulligan" and do it over. But do you know what the golf game named Mulligans is? Many groups of recreational golfers or groups of friends who play together regularly allow the use of mulligans during their rounds. There are usually strict limitations, though. For example, a group might allow mulligans but only one| Golf Compendium
Finishing atop the money list — the cumulative total of golfers' tournament winnings during a tour season — at the end of the year is a major feather in a golfer's cap. It means you had one of the best, perhaps the best, seasons on tour. Which golfer has won the money title the most often? The answer probably won't surprise you. Many golfers in PGA Tour history have topped the season-ending| Golf Compendium
The 1972 U.S. Women's Open was the 27th time this major championship was played. Susie Maxwell Berning won it for the second time, making a late birdie for a one-stroke victory. Winner: Susie Maxwell Berning, 299 Where it was played: Winged Foot Golf Club (East Course) in Mamaroneck, New York Tournament dates: June 29-July 2, 1972 Leader after first round: Shirley Englehorn, 72 Leader| Golf Compendium
2-Man No Scotch is the name of a golf format for two-person teams. It combines elements of a couple other formats, but its name (for reasons we'll explain below) lets you know that alternate shot is not part of this game. 2-Man No Scotch works like this: Both partners on a team play their drives, then they switch balls — each plays the other's drive on the second strokes. They select the one| Golf Compendium
The J&B Scotch Pro-Am was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from the late 1970s into the mid-1980s, played in Las Vegas, Nevada. Its champions were all future Hall of Fame members. First played: 1979 Last played: 1985 Also known as: Sahara National Pro-Am (1979), LPGA National Pro-Am (1980), LPGA Desert Inn Pro-Am (1981). The J&B Scotch Pro-Am name was used over the tournament's final four| Golf Compendium
The 1973 U.S. Women's Open was the 28th time this major championship tournament was played. And for the champion, it was her third victory...| www.golfcompendium.com
Snake is the name of a golf bet/side game whose objective is to avoid three-putting. More specifically, you do not want to be the last person in your group to have a three-putt in Snake, because that is the person who has to pay off the wager. These are the basics of Snake: When a golfer in your group three-putts, he "has the snake" or "holds the snake." When the next 3-putt happens, the Snake| Golf Compendium
Rory McIlroy made a huge splash when he burst onto the PGA Tour around 2010, barely out of his teens. Two of his first four wins on the tour were major championships, and in both of them his winning margin was a whopping eight strokes. Those two, 8-shot, major-championship victories in the early 2010s top the following list of McIlroy's largest margins of victory on the PGA Tour. So far in his| Golf Compendium
The 2027 Ryder Cup will be the 46th time this biennial event is played, and the 100th anniversary of the 1927 Ryder Cup that inaugurated this competition. The Ryder Cup is contested by two teams of male professional golfers, one team representing Europe, the other representing the United States. 2027 Ryder Cup dates: September 17-19, 2027 Golf course: The Golf Course at Adare Manor in County| Golf Compendium
Being named the Player of the Year on the PGA Tour is a capper to what must have been a terrific season of golf. Anyone who wins that award was almost certainly be among the tour's leaders in wins, money and scoring average, and usually a major championship winner during the year. Being named Player of the Year multiple times over one's PGA Tour career is not really rare, but some great names| Golf Compendium
The 1974 U.S. Women's Open was the 29th time this major championship tournament was played. Sandra Haynie birdied the final two holes to win...| www.golfcompendium.com
The Moroccan Open was a professional golf tournament on the European Tour that was played from the late 1980s into the early 2000s. It was t...| www.golfcompendium.com
"One on One" is the name of a points game that is usually played by two golfers who are competing, well, one vs. one. This game awards point...| www.golfcompendium.com
The 1975 U.S. Women's Open was the 30th time this major championship was played. Sandra Palmer pulled away in the final round to win by four...| www.golfcompendium.com
The U.S. Senior Women's Open is open to golfers aged 50 and older. But among its 50-and-older champs so far, who was the oldest? A 57-year...| www.golfcompendium.com
The PGA Tour traces its origins to 1916. In that long history, what is the longest streak any golfer has had of consecutive years winning fi...| www.golfcompendium.com
The Heather Farr Perseverance Award is given annually by the LPGA Tour to one of its golfers who represents the fighting spirit of the late ...| www.golfcompendium.com
The women's college golf championship today is awarded at the Division I NCAA Women's Golf Championship tournament. That event takes place i...| www.golfcompendium.com
Below are the yearly leaders in scoring average on the LPGA Tour, dating to 1953 when the tour first recognized a leader in this statistic...| www.golfcompendium.com
The Welch's/Fry's Championship was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from the early 1980s until the mid-2000-aughts. It was played in Tucso...| www.golfcompendium.com
The LIV Golf League is a men's professional golf tour that launched in 2022. And although the tour has been around only a short time, it ...| www.golfcompendium.com
The 2026 Walker Cup will be the 51st time this competition is played. Dating to 1922, the Walker Cup is a team, Ryder Cup-style match play...| www.golfcompendium.com
The 1976 U.S. Women's Open was the 31st time this major championship was played. JoAnne Carner won it, beating defending champion Sandra P...| www.golfcompendium.com
Which golfer holds the record for winning the U.S. Amateur Championship most often? That's Bobby Jones, with five victories. Another golfer ...| www.golfcompendium.com
Ron Cerrudo was a PGA Tour pro from the 1960s into the 1970s. Before that, he was an accomplished amateur golfer who played in the Walker ...| www.golfcompendium.com
There are many golf games that include, or are all about, winning points for hitting the fairway. And in the Aim Game, you earn points for h...| www.golfcompendium.com
The 1977 U.S. Women's Open was the 32nd time this major championship was played. The first-time winner was Hollis Stacy, who recorded a wire...| www.golfcompendium.com
What is the largest comeback after 54 holes to win the U.S. Women's Open? In the major championship's history, there are multiple golfers wh...| www.golfcompendium.com
