Golf Compendium

Some charity golf tournaments will include a "circle hole." What is that? The gist of it is this: On the one, designated hole, golfers will have a chance to buy extra strokes to try to get their ball within a circle drawn on the green around the flagstick.

The WGC Match Play Championship was a professional golf tournament played on the PGA Tour from the late 1990s into the early 2020s. It was the only match-play tournament on the PGA Tour during those years. This tournament was part of the World Golf Championships (WGC) series of limited-field events, and went by many different names over its lifespan. Those included:

If you are the chairman of the golf hole, and you win that hole, you also win points from each of the other three players in your group. But before you can win those points, you first have to win the right to sit "in the chair."

The Scrambling statistic in professional golf, also known as Scrambling Percentage, tells us how good golfers are at chipping it close and sinking the following putt. And the golfers on the following list are the ones who led the Champions Tour in Scrambling at the end of each season.

Bingle Bangle Bungle is the name of a popular golf game within a group of golfers, best for groups of four but playable by twosomes or groups of three, as well. On each hole, three points are at stake: the bingle point, bangle point and bungle point. So let's explain what those are and how to play the game.

Posting Top 10 finishes throughout the year on any golf tour is a sign of a golfer who is playing consistently well. And it's a great way to fill up a bank account. Below is the list of senior (50-and-over) golfers who have led the Champions Tour in Top 10 finishes each year since that tour's founding in 1980.

Cesar Sanudo was a professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour from the late 1960s into the 1980s. His competitive career was nondescript except for one big distinction: Sanudo was the first golfer from Mexico to win on the PGA Tour.

The BellSouth Senior Classic was a golf tournament on the Champions Tour (Senior Tour) played from the mid-1990s into the mid-2000s. It was played in Nashville, Tennessee.

A golf tournament's "cut" is the reduction in the number of players after (typically) two rounds of play. In other words, the golfers scoring worst after two rounds are cut from the tournament, with only the better-scorers to that point continuing to the tournament's finish.