Golf Compendium

The 1954 U.S. Women's Open was the ninth time this major championship was played. The winner was Babe Didrikson Zaharias by a whopping 12 strokes. It was her final appearance as a player in this championship.

If you play a round of golf in which you suffer any combination of lip-outs , rolling the ball right over the edges of the cup, or running the ball right up to the lip of the hole without it falling in, then you have a case of liprosy.

Do you know what golfers are referring to when they talk about "the lip"? "Lip" is very commonly used by golfers the world over, although it can refer to one of two different parts of a golf course: the holes on the green, or some or all of the bunkers on the course. In both cases, "lip" is a reference to the rim or edge of the hole or bunker.

The Transamerica Senior Championship was a professional golf tournament on the Champions Tour, played from the late 1980s into the early 2000s. It was played in California wine country in the latter part of the senior circuit's schedule, typically October.

A "crowned green" is a putting green whose highest point is in its interior, as opposed to being along one of the edges. Many putting greens generally slope from one side to the other — for example, from back to front, in which case the high point of the green will be on that back edge. But on a crowned green, the high point is somewhere inside the edges, often near the middle.

In the golf tournament format known as Designated Round, golfers play multiple rounds over the course of an extended period (for example, over a month's time), but only one of those rounds counts for this game. The catch is that the "designated round" is the one you announce before teeing off as the round you are going to use.

The 1955 U.S. Women's Open was the 10th time this major championship was played. The winner was the tournament's first international champion, and she led wire-to-wire for the victory.

Orville Moody played the PGA Tour from the 1960s into the 1980s, recording just one official tour win — but it was the U.S. Open. He was always an excellent ball striker, but was also always plagued by putting woes. Until, that is, until he became one of the earliest converts to the long putter as he joined the Senior PGA Tour. His senior career included two wins in majors, one of which was the U.S. Senior Open.

There is an old scoring term in golf, a type of score called a "double buzzard." Even if you don't know what it means (yet), you can probably guess from the name that it's a score no golfer wants to make.