Golf Compendium

Golfers sometimes talk about "duffing" a shot. Do you know what it means to duff it on the golf course? It is a common type of mis-hit that goes by several other terms, too.

"Four Horsemen" is the name of a golf tournament format for teams of four golfers. Each golfer in the game gets to play normal stroke play and post a score, but handicaps are applied at the end and scores are combined for the team score.

The LPGA Tour event known as The Office Depot was played only five times, but had an impressive roster of champions. It was played in Florida from the late 1990s into the early 2000s.

Four-Ball Aggregate is the name of a golf competition format played by teams of two golfers. It can be used as a tournament format, or a group of four golfers can pair off into two teams, two vs. two, and play for money or pride.

John Schlee was a PGA Tour player in the 1960s and 1970s who won only one time on tour. But he is the answer to a couple trivia questions about the tour in those years, and later in life operated instructional schools where he taught what he himself had been taught by Ben Hogan.

"Flaggies" is the name of a golf game in which golfers earn points by making putts beyond a certain length. Which length? The length of the flagstick.

A "duffer" is something that every golfer has been, but that no golfer wants to be. "Duffer" is a term that refers to a player who is bad at golf.

Duffer's Defense is the name of a points game for groups of three or four golfers in which one golfer on each hole is the designated "duffer." The duffer's goal is to avoid losing the hole. And on each hole, only the designated "duffer" earns or loses points.

The "driving putter" (often hyphenated as "driving-putter") was a golf club, long since gone from golf, that was sometimes used by pre-20th century golfers. But did they use it for driving, or for putting? Yes!