LPGA Golfer and Major Champion Shirley Englehorn
Shirley Englehorn's brief but productive LPGA Tour career was marked by one comeback from physical trauma, then more physical trauma from wh...| www.golfcompendium.com
"24-Second Clock" is the name of a game that, several times in a round, gives a golfer who hits a poor shot the opportunity to replay that s...| www.golfcompendium.com
You know those golfers who misplay a stroke and then immediately come up with an excuse for why it happend? "Oh, my foot slipped." "My shoul...| www.golfcompendium.com
"Play It Again Sam" is the name shared by two different golf formats — two formats that are close to being the opposite of one another. In o...| www.golfcompendium.com
Criers and Whiners is the name of a golf format that can be used as a betting game by a group of buddies, or as a tournament format. The gis...| www.golfcompendium.com
Mulligan and Recall is a golf game for a group of four golfers who pair off into two teams. So it's two-vs.-two. You can play it as match pl...| www.golfcompendium.com
What is the PGA Tour record for consecutive years leading the season-ending money list? That record is four years in a row finishing as the ...| www.golfcompendium.com
Shirley Englehorn's brief but productive LPGA Tour career was marked by one comeback from physical trauma, then more physical trauma from wh...| www.golfcompendium.com
What are the biggest winning margins Scottie Scheffler has posted so far on the PGA Tour? His largest margin of victory yet is eight strok...| www.golfcompendium.com
The largest margin of victory by Jack Nicklaus on the PGA Tour was nine strokes, a winning margin Nicklaus achieved twice. Below are all the...| www.golfcompendium.com
The U.S. Open is the second-oldest major championship in men's golf, and the oldest of the three United States-based majors. It was first pl...| www.golfcompendium.com
The PGA Championship is the second-oldest of the USA-based major championships of men's professional golf, first played in 1916. Below you'l...| www.golfcompendium.com
What is the most strokes by which Tiger Woods ever won a pro golf tournament? Woods' largest margin of victory is 15 strokes, and his two la...| www.golfcompendium.com
The 2012 PGA Championship marked the 94th time the tournament was played. Rory McIlroy won his second major championship here, doing it wi...| www.golfcompendium.com
The 2011 U.S. Open was the 111th time this major championship was played, and Rory McIlroy won it in a runaway.| www.golfcompendium.com
Below is the list of Rookie of the Year Award winners on the PGA Tour. The tour has given the award only since 1990, when Robert Gamez was...| www.golfcompendium.com
The Player of the Year award for golfers on the PGA Tour is today handed out by the PGA Tour, based on a vote by PGA Tour players. Makes sen...| www.golfcompendium.com
Below are the annual leaders in scoring average on the PGA Tour. The list goes back to 1980, which is the year the tour started keeping th...| www.golfcompendium.com
The PGA Tour money list goes back to 1934. Below are the PGA Tour money leaders, organized by decade.| www.golfcompendium.com
Tee Box Shuffle is the name of a golf game for a group of golfers, or a format for a tournament, that has the golfers using different tee boxes throughout the round. And which teeing ground you use is determined by your score on the previous hole. In Tee Box Shuffle (sometimes called a Red, White and Blue tournament or format, although that name can also refer to different games) makes use of| Golf Compendium
The 1968 U.S. Women's Open was the 23rd time this major championship, run by the USGA, was played. The first-time champion went on to win this title twice more, too. Winner: Susie Maxwell Berning, 289 Where it was played: Moselem Springs Golf Club in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania Tournament dates: July 4-7, 1968 Leader after first round: Susie Maxwell Berning, 69 Leader after second round: Susie| Golf Compendium
Gilbert Nicholls is largely unknown today, but in his time (the early 1900s) he was an important pro on the fledgling American golf scene. He won tournaments, twice was runner-up in early U.S. Opens (and once held that tournament's 18-hole scoring record), and helped steer the policies of the early PGA of America. Full name: Gilbert Ernest Nicholls Date of birth: July 23, 1878 Place of birth:| Golf Compendium
"Oozies" is the name of a side game in which golfers are rewarded for being closest to the pin. It's a simple game, and the only real question for your group to consider is just how simple to make it. First, note that Oozies is very similar (but not identical) to other games based around closest-to-the-pin such as KP Duty. Another way to think of Oozies is that it is Oozles and Foozles minus the| Golf Compendium
The 1969 U.S. Women's Open was the 24th edition of this major championship tournament. The winner was not just a first-time major champion, but also a first-time winner on the LPGA Tour. Winner: Donna Caponi, 294 Where it was played: Scenic Hills Country Club in Pensacola, Florida Tournament dates: June 26-29, 1969 Leader after first round: Peggy Wilson, 71 Leader after second round: Jo| Golf Compendium
The Epson Tour is the LPGA's developmental circuit, the second-level tour for pro women golfers in the United States. It is a steppingstone to the LPGA Tour, and as you'll see on the following list of the Epson Tour's Players of the Year many of those award winners went on to successful LPGA Tour careers. The Epson Tour Player of the Year Award has been given since 1984, before the tour was even| Golf Compendium
Who won the 1942 U.S. Open golf tournament? Trick question: The tournament wasn't played. But a different tournament run just like a U.S. Open was played, and some golf historians refer to that event as the substitute U.S. Open of 1942. Why the 1942 U.S. Open wasn't played: World War II. American Naval forces at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii were attacked in December of 1941, spurring the United States| Golf Compendium
"Junk" is the name of a golf game that combines many side games into a larger, overall wager. Junk is also a term that can be used to refer to all those familiar side games. What sides games are we talking about? Well, "junk" can refer to such games as barkies, greenies, sandies, nasties, Arnies, Seves, Nicklauses, fishies and so. One golfer in a group might ask the others on the first tee, "| Golf Compendium
The Air New Zealand Shell Open was a men's professional golf tournament that for much of its history was part of the PGA Tour of Australasia schedule. It was played from the mid-1970s into the mid-1990s. First played: 1975 Last played: 1994 The tournament's 72-hole scoring record of 261 was set by D.A. Weibring in 1985. Its largest margin of victory was nine strokes by Bob Shearer, who| Golf Compendium
The FedEx Cup is the season-long points competition on the PGA Tour that culminates in a three-tournament "playoff," ending at the Tour Cham...| www.golfcompendium.com
Golf is full of side games and competition formats, hundreds of possibilities for a group of buddies or a field of tournament players. What ...| www.golfcompendium.com
Canadian Foursomes is the name of golf competition format for 2-person teams. It boils down to this: Canadian Foursomes is a scramble off th...| www.golfcompendium.com
Fensomes, or Fensome, is the name of golf competition format that is a variation on alternate shot. Fensomes is for 2-person teams and can b...| www.golfcompendium.com
In the Blind Nine golf tournament format, sometimes called Blind Hole (or Blind 9), only nine of the 18 holes count for each team's final sc...| www.golfcompendium.com
The reason this format/betting game is called the 4-Point Game is straightforward: because on each hole, four points are at stake. At the en...| www.golfcompendium.com
Golfers sometimes refer to making a "natural birdie" on a hole, or a "natural par." But just what are those scores? In this usage, "natural"...| www.golfcompendium.com
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
