Golf Compendium

Rives McBee was a professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s. He made a big splash in golf before reaching the tour, and he had multiple second-place finishes on tour. But McBee didn't actually win until he reached the Champions Tour, then he won multiple times.

The PGA Championship is one of the four majors of men's professional golf. And The Players Championship is the most-important non-major on the PGA Tour, so important it is sometimes referred to as " the fifth major ." Has any golfer won both these big titles in the same year? Yes — but it has only happened once.

The 1993 U.S. Senior Open was the 14th time this major championship of men's senior (ages 50 and over) golf was played. And for the second time, the winner was Jack Nicklaus.

The PGA Championship was first played in 1916, and since then many of golf's greatest have won this major championship. But not all of them. Here are our picks for greatest golfers who never won the PGA.

Once described by the New York Times as "a pro who looks like a professor," Henry Williams Jr. was actually a club professional who played the PGA mostly on the side in the 1950s and into the 1960s. He won once on tour, but came close to winning a major — he made it into the championship match in the PGA Championship during that tournament's match-play era.

What is the largest margin of victory on the European Tour (currently known as the DP World Tour)? The overall record is 15 strokes by a very famous golfer in a very famous tournament — a major championship. The biggest winning margin in any non -major, official tournament on the European Tour is 14 strokes.

The United States Golf Association stages many national championship tournaments throughout each year for each stage of golfer: juniors, amateurs, professionals and seniors. And Jack Nicklaus won a few of those big events during his career. But how many? Let's run down the list of USGA championships won by Nicklaus.

It doesn't matter how you win the PGA Championship, just that you win it. And the golfers on the two lists below all won this major, but they did take slightly different routes to their victories. Some went low in the final round of their wins, others scored higher but held on. First we'll list the lowest final-round scores by golfers who won the PGA Championship, and then the highest final-round scores by winners.

The 1981 U.S. Senior Open was the second time this major championship of men's senior professional golf was played. Arnold Palmer emerged as the champion after a three-man, 18-hole playoff.