Golf Compendium

What is the biggest lead any golfer has held after three rounds in The Masters tournament? That largest 54-hole lead is nine strokes, a record that was set by Tiger Woods in 1997.

What is the largest lead any golfer has held following two rounds of The Masters? The answer is six strokes. A 6-shot lead is the biggest 36-hole lead in Masters history.

A Monkey Foursome tournament is an old-timey golf format — it goes back at least to the 1920s — most commonly seen as a sort of meet-and-greet lark for golf association playdays. It involves teams of four golfers, with the catch being each golfer gets to use only one club — and the four team members each have a different club.

The 1946 U.S. Women's Open was the very first time this major championship was played. For the only time in its history, the USWO used a match-play format. And the USGA wasn't even in charge of it yet. But Patty Berg was definitely in charge as the tournament's first champion.

Every Masters Tournament includes a handful of amateur golfers, and sometimes those amateur golfers make a splash. But what are the best scores posted by amateurs in The Masters? Below you'll find the tournament records for amateurs for nine holes, 18 holes, 36 holes and 72 holes.

Winning a Green Jacket is one of the biggest achievements in golf, but we can imagine it feeling even sweeter to a golfer who has played the tournament many times — waiting many years — to get his (first) Masters Tournament victory. That's what we are looking at here: Those golfers who won The Masters but only after playing it many years.

What is the largest lead any golfer has taken into the final round of The Masters without converting it into a victory? Six strokes, and that golfer's collapse is one of the most-infamous in our sport's history.

There was an ace in the very first Masters Tournament played, and they've been scoring holes-in-one in The Masters ever since. Just not a ton of them — it's still true that the majority of Masters played pass without any aces made. But below we show you all the aces that have been scored at Augusta National during the tournament, first arranged by hole, and then listed year-by-year.

George McLean played tournaments in the earliest years of the PGA Tour and continuing into the 1930s. He had multiple strong showings in the PGA Championship, and was a member of Team USA in a competition that was part of the Ryder Cup's origins.