Golf Compendium

Frank Walsh was never a big winner in pro tournaments, but he did win on the PGA Tour and was in contention quite a bit in the 1920s and 1930s. His career highlights included reaching the championship match in the match-play era of the PGA Championship, and setting a long-standing Masters Tournament record (but one he'd rather not have).

The Las Vegas Senior Classic was a professional golf tournament in Nevada that was played from the 1980s into the early 2000s. It was part of the Champions Tour, then called the Senior PGA Tour.

What is the worst score on a single hole in the history of The Masters Tournament? The tournament record for single-hole high score is 13, a tally recorded by three golfers so far.

"Let the big dog eat" is one of the more colorful golf slang expressions. Do you know what it means? And how long golfers have been using this phrase?

Would you guess that a golf game named Birdies is one that pays off when a golfer ... makes a birdie? This side bet is one of the simplest, and it is also one of the most popular among golfers.

Jimmy Clark was a professional golfer on the PGA Tour whose tournament appearances mostly came in the 1950s. He is best-known for two things: First, as an amateur, he once set a 36-hole scoring record for all USGA competitions ... and then broke his own record the next time the same tournament was played. Second, as a pro Clark won only twice on the PGA Tour, but they happened in the same year (1952) and the same golfer was runner-up both times.

The Fort Wayne Open was a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana, seven times during the 1950s.

From 1972 through 2022, Mission Hills Country Club in California's Coachella Valley was the site of a big LPGA Tour event, a tournament that for most of its history was one of the LPGA's major championships . And every year during the broadcast of that tournament, television viewers heard repeated references to "the Indio effect."

No, an amateur golfer has never won The Masters Tournament. A few have come close, including three who finished runner-up. But it has been a very long time since any amateur even finished in the Top 5 at this major championship.