Golf Compendium

The PGA Tour Sony Open (also known as the Hawaiian Open and Sony Open in Hawaii) was a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour from the mid-1960s until the mid-2020s.

The PGA Tour traces its origins to 1916. Over that long span of time, what is the tour record for lowest final-round score by a tournament winner? Which golfers have gone the lowest in the final round to win a tournament?

What does it mean to "make par the hard way"? Broadly, it means that a golfer has scored par on a hole while overcoming a mis-hit, mistake, penalty or other potential calamity.

Winning on any pro golf tour is an achievement. Winning multiple times in the same year is huge. And even bigger? Winning two or more tournaments multiple years in a row. That's what we are looking at here: LPGA Tour golfers with the longest streaks of consecutive, multi-win seasons.

The 1984 U.S. Senior Open was the fifth time this major championship of senior (50-and-over) men's golf was played. Miller Barber became the tournament's first two-time champion — in small part because Arnold Palmer whiffed a putt.

A "Nutshell Championship" is a golf tournament that includes a stroke-play qualifier and match-play bracket, yet takes only 36 holes — and usually just one day — to play.

What is the longest streak of tournaments on the European Tour (DP World Tour) that any golfer has gone without missing a cut? That record is 82 tournaments in a row without a missed cut, and Ernie Els is the golfer who holds it.

In the golf game format known as String, golfers get to use a length of string (or yarn or anything similar) to improve the position of the golf ball. But each time they do, they lose part of the string, until eventually none is left.

The 2018 U.S. Senior Open was the 39th time this major championship of senior (50-and-over) men's golf was played. A couple of key late putts helped David Toms to the victory.