Golf Compendium

Patsome, or Patsomes, is the name of a game for 2-player teams in which the golfers rotate formats every six holes. Fourball (better ball), greensomes and foursomes (alternate shot) are the three formats used, each played for six holes.

The Henredon Classic was a professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour, played annually for 10 years beginning in the early 1980s. It was played in North Carolina, and for its last three years used a Stableford scoring format. In its later years, the tournament's name was changed to Planters Pat Bradley International.

Eduardo Romero was a professional golfer from Argentina whose run of tournament victories stretched from the early 1980s into the 2000s. Never a winner on the PGA Tour, Romero wons dozens of times on other tours, including wins in three decades on the European Tour. Later, he won two senior majors on the Champions Tour.

In the golf betting game called the 6-Point Game, a certain number of points are up for grabs on each hole. Big surprise: It's six. The 6-Point Game is for a group of three golfers, and on each hole they are competing against one another for those six points.

Which golfers on the PGA Tour are most successful at one-putting greens? The tour has a stat for that. It's called One-Putt Percentage, and the list below shows which golfers have led the tour going back to the early 1990s.

In the golf game known as 5-3-1, those numbers in the name tell you how many points are at stake on each hole: Nine. This is a game for a group of three golfers and, if you wish, you can assign a monetary value to each point earned.

Total Driving is the name of an old-school statistic tracked by the PGA Tour since the 1980s. It is a combined measure of both a golfer's driving distance and driving accuracy. Below is the list of golfers who have led the PGA Tour in Total Driving each year since 1987, the year the tour began officially tracking it.

Embed from Getty Images Paul Runyan was a professional golfer and golf instructor who won two PGA Championship trophies in the 1930s. He won nearly 30 PGA Tour tournaments overall, and was the first golfer to claim nine such tourneys in a single year. Runyan was a short hitter with a standout short game who later became renowned for teaching the short game.

30 Balls is the name of a golf tournament format for teams of three golfers. In an 18-hole round, a team of three golfers, each of whom is playing his own ball into the hole, will record 54 total scores (18 holes multiplied by 3 golfers). How many of those scores are used in 30 Balls? Thirty of them.