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.

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.

"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.

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.

The FedEx Cup is the season-long points competition on the PGA Tour that culminates in a three-tournament "playoff," ending at the Tour Championship. Which golfers have earned the title of FedEx Cup champions? The full list is below.

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).

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.

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.

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.