Golf Compendium

The Chevron Championship is one of the five golf tournaments that make up the LPGA majors . Which golfers hold the records as the tournament's youngest winner, and its oldest? The youngest wasn't yet 19 years old, and the oldest was in her early 40s.

Andy Bean was a big golfer with a big personality who, from the late 1970s into the mid-late-1980s was one of the PGA Tour's top contenders. Bean recorded double-digit wins during that time, had multiple high money-list finishes, and was runner-up in three majors. And have you heard about the time he wrestled an alligator on a golf course?

A "golf lawyer" is something you don't want to be, even though the underlying knowledge required to be one (a strong understanding of the rules) is a good thing.

Being the low amateur in the U.S. Open is a great achievement in itself. Winning the U.S. Open is one of the greatest achievements in golf. But how many golfers have earned low amateur honors and also won the tournament at some point?

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 four team members are combined for the team's score.

The 2028 Masters Tournament will be the 92nd time this major championship is played. First staged in 1934, The Masters is one of the four majors of men's professional golf. The format is four rounds, 72 holes of stroke play.

What is the "career grand slam" in golf? In men's golf, it refers to winning each of the four professional major championships over the course of one's career: The Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA Championship. If a golfer wins each of those tournaments at least once, then he has achieved the career grand slam. And it is a rare feat.

The Sumrie Better-Ball tournament, also known as the Sumrie-Bournemouth Better-Ball, was a team golf tournament played in England and Scotland from the late 1960s into the late 1970s. It was an independent tournament, not a tour event, although it attracted most of the big names who played the European Tour at the time.

Picture a person who does not play golf, but whose spouse loves golf and plays a lot. That person would wind up spending lots of time on their own, waiting for that golf-loving spouse to get back from the course. What would you call such a person? One thing you can call them is this: golf widow.