Golf Compendium

There are many golf games that include, or are all about, winning points for hitting the fairway. And in the Aim Game, you earn points for hitting the fairway off the tee. But you earn more the closer your drive stops to the center of the fairway, and you lose points the farther off the fairway you are.

The 1977 U.S. Women's Open was the 32nd time this major championship was played. The first-time winner was Hollis Stacy, who recorded a wire-to-wire victory.

What are the biggest wins (and worst defeats) in matches played during the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship? Multiple golfers have claimed 18-hole matches by winning 10 consecutive holes to start a match. And the 36-hole record is a winning margin so large that it is also the record margin of victory for any USGA match.

The U.S. Women's Amateur Championship dates to 1895, and in that long history there are nine golfers who have won the tournament at least three times each. But the one who holds the record for most wins in the U.S. Women's Amateur had six victories.

Phyllis Preuss was a lifelong amateur golfer who thrived during the tail end of the period known as "the golden age" of women's amateur golf in the U.S. In the 1960s/1970s she set records for match wins and points earned in the Curtis Cup, and over that time period she also won multiple big tournaments. But she also suffered the worst defeat in USGA match history.

What are the biggest winning margins Scottie Scheffler has posted so far on the PGA Tour? His largest margin of victory yet is eight strokes, and he has multiple other wins by five or more shots on the PGA Tour.

The golf format known as Second Ball is a variation on a standard four-ball match that typically results in many fewer tied holes. The variation is that when the two teams' low ball results a tie on a hole, their second balls are used to (often) break that tie.