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.
The golfer who holds the record for making the most cuts in a row on the LPGA Tour doesn't just hold the LPGA Tour record. She made more consecutive cuts than any other player in pro tour history, and by a long shot. Her consecutive cut streak was more than twice as long as Tiger Woods' record-long PGA Tour cut streak .
The Aspeboda Ladies Open was a pro golf tournament that launched as one of the original events in the first year of the Swedish Golf Tour's existence. It was also briefly part of the Ladies European Tour. Several future LPGA Tour players got early wins here.
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson share the Presidents Cup record for most wins in foursomes matches, with 12 victories each. But they never partnered one another in the Presidents Cup.
Fourball is one of the match-play formats used during the Presidents Cup, the every-other-year competition between two teams — Team USA and Team International — of male pro golfers. And in the history of the Presidents Cup, no golfer was on the winning side of more fourball matches than Phil Mickelson.
The USGA Women's State Team Championship was created by the United States Golf Association in 1995, capping off the organization's centennial celebration. It ran for 22 years, last taking place in 2017. What follows is a look back at this former USGA national championship, its format, its winners, its golf courses.
The 2019 U.S. Senior Open was the 40th time this major championship of senior (50-and-over) men's golf was played. Steve Stricker took the title with a record scoring performance.