Golf Compendium

Wally Ulrich was a pro golfer beginning in the late 1940s, but before that, as an amateur, he won the national collegiate championship. As a pro, he played on the PGA Tour full-time during a roughly 10-year stretch, his one tour victory happening in 1954.

The basics of the golf game named Irons Only are right there in the name of the game. This game requires the golfers playing to only use their irons to play shots from anywhere other than the putting green.

The Kansas City Open was a men's professional golf tournament played on the PGA Tour from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. It was a 72-hole, stroke-play tournament. It took place in the Greater Kansas City, Missouri, area, although several times on the Kansas side of the border.

Hollywood is the name of a game in which four golfers pair off into two sides (2-vs.-2), and then change partners after every six holes. That way, each golfer partners each other golfer for six holes over an 18-hole round: one round, three partners.

William (Bill) Hyndman III was a lifelong amateur golfer from Pennsylvania who once beat Jack Nicklaus in U.S. Amateur match play, but never actually won the U.S. or British Amateur titles. He did win dozens of other important amateur tournaments, represented the United States numerous times in international team events, and once hit what Bobby Jones said was "the greatest clutch shot" he ever saw. And when he finally did win a USGA championship, Hyndman set a record as oldest USGA champion.

The largest margin of victory in any foursomes match played in the Solheim Cup is 6-and-5. And that score has been registered five times so far.

The largest winning margin in any fourball match at the Solheim Cup is 7-and-5. That score has been recorded twice. And it means that the winning side ended the match after just 13 holes.

What are the biggest margins of victory in singles matches at the Solheim Cup? The largest winning margin in a Solheim Cup singles match is 8-and-7.

"Gritty par" can be either a slang expression for a specific type of golf score, or it can refer to a type of side game (side bet) played by golfers. In either case, though, it is really just a synonym of sandie/sandy.

The 2026 Presidents Cup will be the 16th time this tournament is played. Played on an every-other-year basis, it was first contested in 1994. Today, it takes place in even-numbered years. The Presidents Cup is a team, match-play tournament, between two squads:

Helen Holm was one of the top British golfers of her era, winning the British Women's Amateur twice in the 1930s. But she also reached the championship match of the Scottish Women's Amateur 10 times, winning half of them. Today, a major U.K. women's amateur tournament is named in her honor.