Golf Compendium

In the golf game called Bus Driver, the bus driver is the one you don't want to be. In this game, the "bus driver" is the golfer who tees off last on the ninth and 18th holes, and that is also the one who has to pay the other players in the group.

Jo Ann Prentice was a winner on the LPGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s. One of her victories was in a tournament that later became a major championship. She was also involved in the longest sudden-death playoff in LPGA history.

Being selected as the site of a USGA championship tournament is a major feather in the cap for any golf course. And the USGA has its favorites, certain clubs and courses to which the organization has returned many times. That's what this article is about: those golf courses that have hosted the most USGA championships.

In the name of a "Box Tournament," also known as "Man In the Box," the box in question is the tee box. On every hole, one member of the four-person team is required to step up and provide one of the two scores on that hole that are combined for the team's score.

George Sargent was an English golfer whose greatest successes happened in America: He won the U.S. Open in 1909, and through the 1940s was the head pro at a succession of major American clubs. He also was an innovator in golf instruction who played a big part in popularizing the use of film to analyze golf swings.

Battle Golf is the name of a game in which the golfer who wins a hole gets to make it even harder for his opponent to come back in the match. That's because when you lose a hole in Battle Golf, you also lose a club.

The Sea Island Open (called the Sea Island Women's Invitational its final two years) was a professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from the mid-1950s into the 1960s. Five times it was won by Mickey Wright. It was played in Georgia.

Designated Hitter, also known as 4-Player Baseball, is a golf tournament format for four-person teams. On each hole, the scores of two of those team members are combined for the team score. And one of those scores must come from the team's "designated hitter."

Do you know what the numbers on a golf ball mean? Do you know whether they even mean anything at all? The numbers that are most commonly stamped by manufacturers onto golf balls do not really having a meaning , but they certainly do have a purpose . We'll explain that, plus what other numbers golfers might see on a ball, and what those numbers mean.