Golf Compendium

The 1961 U.S. Women's Open was the 16th time this major championship was played. For Mickey Wright, it was her third victory, and this one was by six strokes.

Clarence Clark was a professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the late 1920s through the mid-1940s. His tour career began with back-to-back multi-win seasons. All of his tour victories — there were seven total — happened between 1931 and 1936.

Graphite is one of the two common materials (along with steel) used to make golf shafts. Have you ever wondered just how golf designers and manufacturers turn graphite into golf shafts? We have.

There are two primary ways to manufacture steel golf shafts. One is called "seemless" construction; the other is "welded tube" construction.

The 1962 U.S. Women's Open was the 17th time this major championship was played. The winner trailed by multiple strokes following each of the first three rounds, and came back from five behind in the final round.

A 36-Hole Eclectic is a competition format that can be played by two or more golfers or used for a tournament. You can probably guess that it is played over two, 18-hole rounds, played on the same golf course. The gist of this format (or an eclectic of any length) is that each golfer compares his scores in the two rounds and selects the lower score on each hole played.

The Vintage Invitational (also remembered as the Vintage Chrysler Invitational) was a golf tournament on the Champions Tour, the U.S.-based senior golf circuit. The tournament was played in Indian Wells, California, typically early in the senior tour's schedule.

The 1963 U.S. Women's Open was the 18th time this major championship was played. The winner was a 23-year-old who earned the first of her three career victories in majors.

Betty Burfeindt was a professional golfer on the LPGA Tour from the late 1960s into the early 1980s. She won multiple tournaments, including one major championship.