Golf Compendium

The 1980 U.S. Senior Open was the very first time this tournament was played. Roberto De Vicenzo was the inaugural champion.

Finishing second in the U.S. Women's Open is an achievement — just not the one (winning) that every golfer wants. Still, as you'll see in the list below, finishing runner-up most-often in this major championship is a very good indication that the golfer is an LPGA legend.

Quite a few golfers have won both the U.S. Women's Open and Women's PGA Championship at some point in their careers. But how many won both of these women's major championships in the same year? That number is still pretty small.

The 2025 U.S. Senior Open was the 45th time this major championship of men's senior golf was played. For the second time, Padraig Harrington was the victor.

There are several formats in golf in which a golfer gets to replay a limited number of strokes per round, formats with names such as Mulligans , Play It Again Sam , and Criers and Whiners . Some of those formats are also known as Replay. But that's not the Replay format we are talking about here. In this Replay, your opponent gets to make you replay strokes.

Rives McBee was a professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s. He made a big splash in golf before reaching the tour, and he had multiple second-place finishes on tour. But McBee didn't actually win until he reached the Champions Tour, then he won multiple times.

The PGA Championship is one of the four majors of men's professional golf. And The Players Championship is the most-important non-major on the PGA Tour, so important it is sometimes referred to as " the fifth major ." Has any golfer won both these big titles in the same year? Yes — but it has only happened once.

The 1993 U.S. Senior Open was the 14th time this major championship of men's senior (ages 50 and over) golf was played. And for the second time, the winner was Jack Nicklaus.

The PGA Championship was first played in 1916, and since then many of golf's greatest have won this major championship. But not all of them. Here are our picks for greatest golfers who never won the PGA.