Golf Compendium

The 1958 U.S. Women's Open was the 13th time this championship was played. For Mickey Wright, it was her first USWO title, but far from her last. And she achieved several tournament firsts this year.

Who was the No. 1 player in women's golf at the end of 2025? Which golfers finished the year ranked the highest in the Rolex Rankings, the official world rankings of women's golf? Below is the year-end list of 2025's top-ranked golfers.

Which golfers finished the year 2025 in the Top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking? And who ended the year as the No. 1-ranked player? Following is the list of the highest-ranked golfers of 2025 in the men's world rankings.

The 1959 U.S. Women's Open was the 14th playing of this major championship. And for the first time, the tournament had a back-to-back winner — Mickey Wright.

Photo credit: Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA , CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Mike Hill was a PGA Tour player in the 1960s and 1970s, and Senior Tour star in the 1990s. He was the younger brother of a more-famous older brother on the PGA Tour, but once he joined the Senior Tour Mike became the Hill family's bigger star.

Pinehurst System is the name of a golf competition format for 2-person teams. It starts on each hole with the partners each playing two strokes, then switches to alternate shot, with a switch of balls also included following the drives. This format is designed to allow teams comprised of two golfers whose abilities, or at least strengths, widely differ to compete fairly against other such teams, while allowing (requiring, really) the higher-handicap partner to contribute to the team's success.

There is an old golf term — "fog" — that golfers might still encounter (or even use) today. It's a term found in old books, and, in modern lingo, most likely to be heard in Scotland. But this fog has nothing to do with the weather. It's a term that refers to rough.

Do you know what it means to gobble a putt? There probably aren't a lot of golfers familiar with this bit of slang today, because "gobble" is one of the terms from earlier times. When a golfer hits a putt that rolls hard and fast to the hole but does drop in, he gobbled it.

The Miller Open, also called during its short run the Miller High Life Open and Milwaukee Open Invitational, was a PGA Tour tournament in Wisconsin in the 1950s and 1960s. All but one of its winners was also (or would become) a major championship winner.