Golf Compendium

The first golfer in PGA Tour history to score 58 in tournament play was Jim Furyk, and the side game known as 58 (Fifty-Eight) is named after him. That's why it is also called Furyk or the Furyk Game. And it's a very simple game that revolves around when in your round you and your golf buddies hit 58 strokes played.

Who is the youngest golfer ever to win on the European Tour? And how old was he? The answer to the second question is 17 years old. Twice in European Tour history, a golfer younger than 18 has won. And both times, it was the same golfer.

Embed from Getty Images Phil Rodgers was a brash, fun-loving young pro on the PGA Tour in the early 1960s, when he established a lifelong connection to Jack Nicklaus. Rodgers was an early rival to Nicklaus, although not for very long: All of his wins happened prior to 1967. But he did win multiple times on the PGA Tour. Later he established a reputation as a sought-after teacher of the game. And Nicklaus was one of those who benefited from Rodgers' help.

The European Tour (also known, for its title sponsor, as the DP World Tour) has existed since 1972. Since that inaugural year, there are only two golfers in the tour's history who are credited with winning an official tournament past the age of 50. Those two golfers are Phil Mickelson and Miguel Angel Jimenez.

Patsome, or Patsomes, is the name of a game for 2-player teams in which the golfers rotate formats every six holes. Fourball (better ball), greensomes and foursomes (alternate shot) are the three formats used, each played for six holes.

The Henredon Classic was a professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour, played annually for 10 years beginning in the early 1980s. It was played in North Carolina, and for its last three years used a Stableford scoring format. In its later years, the tournament's name was changed to Planters Pat Bradley International.

Eduardo Romero was a professional golfer from Argentina whose run of tournament victories stretched from the early 1980s into the 2000s. Never a winner on the PGA Tour, Romero wons dozens of times on other tours, including wins in three decades on the European Tour. Later, he won two senior majors on the Champions Tour.

In the golf betting game called the 6-Point Game, a certain number of points are up for grabs on each hole. Big surprise: It's six. The 6-Point Game is for a group of three golfers, and on each hole they are competing against one another for those six points.

Which golfers on the PGA Tour are most successful at one-putting greens? The tour has a stat for that. It's called One-Putt Percentage, and the list below shows which golfers have led the tour going back to the early 1990s.

In the golf game known as 5-3-1, those numbers in the name tell you how many points are at stake on each hole: Nine. This is a game for a group of three golfers and, if you wish, you can assign a monetary value to each point earned.

Total Driving is the name of an old-school statistic tracked by the PGA Tour since the 1980s. It is a combined measure of both a golfer's driving distance and driving accuracy. Below is the list of golfers who have led the PGA Tour in Total Driving each year since 1987, the year the tour began officially tracking it.

Embed from Getty Images Paul Runyan was a professional golfer and golf instructor who won two PGA Championship trophies in the 1930s. He won nearly 30 PGA Tour tournaments overall, and was the first golfer to claim nine such tourneys in a single year. Runyan was a short hitter with a standout short game who later became renowned for teaching the short game.

30 Balls is the name of a golf tournament format for teams of three golfers. In an 18-hole round, a team of three golfers, each of whom is playing his own ball into the hole, will record 54 total scores (18 holes multiplied by 3 golfers). How many of those scores are used in 30 Balls? Thirty of them.

The PGA Tour's "Ball Striking" statistical category is a ranking of golfers based on their ability to follow up a good drive by hitting the green in regulation. And below is the list of golfers who have led the PGA Tour in this stat since the tour added it in 1987.

The 3-Point Game is a golf format for groups of four golfers who pair off into two teams for a 2-vs.-2 competition. On each hole, three points are awarded, one point each for three different accomplishments. And in this game, partners rotate every six holes so that each golfer partners every other member of the group.

The Ladies European Tour (LET) crowns an Order of Merit (OOM) winner at the end of each season. Below is the list of Order of Merit winners going back to 1979, when the OOM was first recognized.

The "2-By-4" game is a format for golf competitions involving 4-person teams. The numbers in the format's name refer to the number of scores used on each hole: on most holes, two players' scores are combined for the team score. But on four holes, four players' scores are combined for the team score.