Golf Compendium

Winning the U.S. Open is hard. Winning the U.S. Senior Open is also hard. Winning them both over the course of one's career? That's something only eight golfers so far have done.

The 2005 U.S. Women's Open was the 60th time this major championship was played. It ended with a dramatic hole-out on the last hole and two amateurs tied for second place.

What is the Open Championship tournament record for most appearances — most times playing this major championship? That record is 46. And the golfer who holds that record is a three-time winner of the tournament.

The 2006 U.S. Women's Open was the 61st time this major championship was played. Annika Sorenstam won it, but had to go an extra 18 holes to do so.

What is the U.S. Women's Open tournament record for biggest victory? We're talking about the widest gap between first and second place — the largest margins of victory. That is a whopping 14 strokes, a record set in a USWO that was played before the LPGA Tour even existed, before the USGA even ran the tournament.

The 2007 U.S. Women's Open was the 62nd time this major championship was played. Cristie Kerr outlasted several pursuers to claim her first major title.

The 2008 U.S. Women's Open was the 63rd time this major championship was played. The victor was the youngest winner to this point in the tournament's history.

Kathy Cornelius was an LPGA Tour golfer from the 1950s into the 1980s. She recorded multiple wins, but the biggest of them was a victory in the U.S. Women's Open. She also is part of the first-ever mother-and-daugher pair to both win USGA championships.

The 2010 U.S. Women's Open was the 65th time this major championship was played. Paula Creamer overcame a thumb injury and a tough golf course to win.

The 2009 U.S. Women's Open was the 64th time the tournament was played. The winner closed out her victory with a birdie putt on the final green.

How many times has a golfer won two consecutive U.S. Women's Opens? Back-to-back victories in this, the biggest of the women's majors , aren't common — but they aren't especially rare, either.

The 1999 U.S. Women's Open was the 54th time this major championship was played. It was 20th time Juli Inkster played it — but the first time Inkster won it.

In the history of the U.S. Women's Open, what is the lowest score for any round played? That record is 63, and exactly one golfer has gone that low in the USWO.

Below are the six golfers who have recorded the largest margins of victory in winning the Women's PGA Championship. All six of them are big names in LPGA history and multiple-major championship winners.

Murle (Lindstrom) Breer was a U.S. Women's Open champion in the early 1960s. Her LPGA Tour career was interrupted by family concerns, but she returned to win a couple more times in the late 1960s. Her LPGA Tour career stretched from the 1950s into the 1980s.

The national opens of Great Britain and the United States — the British Open and U.S. Open — are the two oldest tournaments in major championship golf. Winning them both over the course of one's career is a strong indicator of a Hall-of-Fame career. Winning them both in the same year? That is something that has happened only seven times in golf history.

Defender is the name of a golf game for a group of four golfers or a group of three golfers (it actually works a little better with threesomes). On each hole, one golfer is the "defender of the hole" — his job is to beat, or at least tie, the scores of any of the other golfers in the group.

In the history of the Women's PGA Championship (which dates to 1955), only two golfers age 40-and-over have won the tournament. And only three golfers 39 or older have won it.

The Women's PGA Championship is second only to the U.S. Women's Open in seniority among the major championships of women's professional golf . It was first played in 1955 and run by the LPGA through 2014 (as the LPGA Championship) before the PGA of America took over the tournament and renamed it in 2015.

Sam Parks Jr. was a U.S. Open winner in the 1930s. He was not well-known to the general golfing public at that time, and he remains today one of the lesser-known major championship winners. In fact, his U.S. Open title is the only PGA Tour title to his credit. Be he also played in a Ryder Cup for Team USA, and the way he prepared before winning that U.S. Open still gets attention.

Which golfer holds the record for the most wins in a single season on the Champions Tour? No golfer in the history of "the Senior Tour" has yet reached double-digit (10 or more) victories in a single season. But two have come close: The senior tour record for wins in a year is nine.

The 2027 U.S. Open golf championship will be the 127th time this tournament is played. The U.S. Open is one of the four major championships of men's professional golf and is run by the United States Golf Association. Dating to 1895, it is the oldest golf tournament in America, and the second-oldest (after the British Open) of the majors.

Imagine a golfer reaching the last hole of a tournament trailing the leader and, seemingly, out of it: His only chance to win is by making a hole-in-one. But then the golfer does exactly that! He aces the very last hole to win the tournament. Has it ever happened?

What is the largest comeback after 54 holes to win the U.S. Women's Open? In the major championship's history, there are multiple golfers who began the final round five strokes off the lead, then rallied to win the tournament.

The 2024 Solheim Cup will be the 19th time this three-day, United States-vs.-Europe team competition is played. Featuring top women professional golfers from the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour, the Solheim Cup is played every other year. Except in 2024, when it takes place just one year after the 2023 Solheim Cup .

The U.S. Open is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf. Hosting a U.S. Open is a big deal — a feather in the cap — for any golf course chosen to do so.

Willie Macfarlane was a Scottish golfer who went to the United States in the early 20th century as a club professional. From the 19-teens into the 1930s, he won more than 20 tournaments on the pro circuit, a total that still lands him on the list of golfers with the most PGA Tour wins. Macfarlane also beat Bobby Jones in a 36-hole playoff to win a U.S. Open championship.

What is the farthest below par any golfer has gotten to win the U.S. Open golf tournament? The record for lowest winning score in relation to par is 16-under-par, and two golfers share that record.

Hey, buddy, have you seen my new sticks? Those are some nice sticks you got there, friend. In golf, "sticks" is a slang term for golf clubs.

One golfer in the history of the Women's PGA Championship (originally named the LPGA Championship) won it four times. Six other golfers posted three wins each in this major championship of women's professional golf . And a handful of other golfers also reached multiple victories.