Golf Compendium

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.

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.