Golf Compendium

The Dominion Energy Charity Classic was a golf tournament on the Champions Tour, the PGA Tour-owned circuit for golfers ages 50-and-over. The tournament was played from the mid-2010s to the mid-2020s, and in most years was one of the Champions Tour's playoff tournaments.

Do you know what the tee sheet is at a golf course? At most golf courses, your name will need to be on it if you want to make sure you are teeing off your round at the desired time.

Have you ever seen, or heard of, a golf club called the 10-iron? You have, actually, even if you don't realize it. That's because 10-iron is just another name for a pitching wedge.

The 1967 U.S. Women's Open was the 22nd time this major championship was played. The winner was an amateur golfer from France who had not yet even won one of the major amateur titles.

Jack Newton was an Australia pro golfer who won tournaments around the world in the 1970s and into the early 1980s. He was also runner-up in two majors, including a playoff loss at the British Open to Tom Watson. His career was cut short by a horrific accident involving an airplane propeller, but he recovered to forge a second career in golf.

The Caltex Tournament was a prominent golf tournament played in New Zealand from the mid-1950s into the early 1970s. Its biggest winners were the biggest names in ANZAC golf at the time: Australians Peter Thomson and Kel Nagle, and New Zealander Bob Charles.

Tee Box Shuffle is the name of a golf game for a group of golfers, or a format for a tournament, that has the golfers using different tee boxes throughout the round. And which teeing ground you use is determined by your score on the previous hole.

The 1968 U.S. Women's Open was the 23rd time this major championship, run by the USGA, was played. The first-time champion went on to win this title twice more, too.

Gilbert Nicholls is largely unknown today, but in his time (the early 1900s) he was an important pro on the fledgling American golf scene. He won tournaments, twice was runner-up in early U.S. Opens (and once held that tournament's 18-hole scoring record), and helped steer the policies of the early PGA of America.