Golf Compendium

"Crenshaws" is the name of a golf game that rewards players who one-putt. Hole your first putt once your ball is on the green, or, depending on the version you are playing, make a 1-putt par, and you earn a Crenshaw point.

A hole-in-one on a par-4 is called ... a hole-in-one. Or an ace. It can be called by a couple other terms. And we'll tell you what those other terms are. But we'll also explain why no golfers actually use those other terms.

The Drop Out Game is a golf format, or rather formats: the name is used for a couple different games. We'll explain them all below, and also tell you the other common names by which the Drop Out Game is known.

R.H. Sikes was a golfer on the PGA Tour who played in the 1960s and 1970s. Before that, as an amateur golfer, he won two USGA national championships as well as the NCAA Championship.

The Madrid Open was a professional golf tournament played in Spain over the course of 40 years, from the late 1960s into the 2000-aughts. It predated the formation of the modern European Tour, but was part of the European Tour from that circuit's launch in 1972.

Dots is the name of a golf game in which the players earn points (called dots) for each of a series of achievements made during the round. At the end of the round, the golfer with the most dots on her scorecard is the winner.

How many holes-in-one have been made by golfers in the Presidents Cup? The answer might surprise you.

There are five golfers in Presidents Cup history who top the list of golfers with the most appearances in the tournament, and also the list of golfers who played the most matches in the competition. And they even appear in the same order on both lists.

Louis Tellier was a French golfer who emigrated to the United States in the mid-1910s. Although he won no big tournaments in France, the French Golf Federation calls him "one of the most important French golfers of the early 20th century." That's because Tellier was the first golfer from France to win in America on the circuit that grew into the modern PGA Tour. Tragically, Tellier took his own life at age 35, dying on the Boston-area golf course where he was the head pro.