Golf Compendium

You can think of the "metoo" (as in "me, too") as a sort of a mulligan on steroids. A mulligan in golf is a do-over: If your group is playing mulligans, and you get one mulligan per nine holes, then you can play one stroke over per nine. But if your group is playing "metoos," then you get to claim another golfer's shot as your own .

Which golfers finished the year 2019 in the Top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking? Who was No. 1 at the end of 2019? Below is the year-end list of 2019's top-ranked golfers.

Jerry Barber was a PGA Tour winner in the 1950s and 1960s. Remembered as one of the tour's great short-game artists, he sank a series of long putts over the final holes to force a playoff in the 1961 PGA Championship, which he then won. Barber continued making appearances on the PGA Tour all the way into the 1990s.

Which golfers finished the year 2020 in the Top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking? Who was No. 1? Below is the year-end list of 2020's top-ranked golfers.

The golf betting game named Buckshot is something like the opposite of a Straightest Drive game: Rather than rewarding accuracy off the tee, as in Straightest Driver, Buckshot punishes inaccuracy off the tee.

The term "desert swing" is often applied, by both tour golfers and golf fans, to a stretch of tournaments played on desert-style golf courses.

The Ladies English Open was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European tour, played sporadically from the early 1990s into the first decade of the 2000s. Given its status as a national open, it won't be a surprise if the event is revived again in the future.

What is "maraging steel" in golf clubs? That question is soon going to have to be asked this way: What was maraging steel in golf clubs. Because maraging steel is no longer the whiz-bang new golf club material it once was. But the key thing to know about maraging steel is this: It's a material that is superior to stainless steel in key ways that make it better than stainless for use in the clubfaces of golf clubs — but not as good as titanium for the same uses.

Did you know that the fairway on golf courses wasn't always called the "fairway"? The original term was "fair green," or "fairgreen." It sounds weird, doesn't it?