Golf Compendium

The 1971 U.S. Women's Open was the 26th time this major championship was played. JoAnne Carner raced to her first win in a major by seven strokes.

The 2029 Ryder Cup will be the 47th time this competition is played. The Ryder Cup is an every-other-year match-play spectacle contested by two teams of male professional golfers, Team Europe and Team United States.

Fourball is one of the three formats (in addition to foursomes and singles) played at the Ryder Cup. Below is the list of golfers who won the most fourball matches in Ryder Cup play.

Which golfers in Ryder Cup history have the most wins in foursomes matches? The four biggest winners in foursomes were all Team Europe players, and a Spanish golfer is the one on top.

When a Ryder Cup team takes a lead into the final day — especially a lead of more than one point — it usually goes on to victory. But not every time! A handful of times, the Ryder Cup team that trailed by multiple points going into the final-day singles session wound up winning. And in two of those instances, the trailing team overcame a 4-point deficit to win.

The Kanto Pro Championship was a men's professional golf tournament in Japan that existed for decades before the Japan Tour (JGTO) was founded in 1973. The tournament was played around the Kanto region (which includes Tokyo) in the eastern part of Japan.

Koichi Ono was a Japanese golfer who won tournaments in Japan from the late 1940s into the 1960s. He was one of the first Japanese golfers to become known internationally, and was part of the winning team in an event that spurred the explosion of golf in Japan.

Has any father-and-son duo of golfers both played in the Ryder Cup? Yes, there have been a very small number of father-and-son Ryder Cuppers — all of them (so far) on the GB&I/Europe side.

How many pairs (or sets, even) of brothers have both played in the Ryder Cup? Not many, which is not surprising. Being good enough to earn a Ryder Cup berth is uncommon, after all, in the golf world. Having two (or more) golfers in the same family who are that good is much rarer. But, in fact, five families so far have sent two or more brothers into the Ryder Cup.

The Ryder Cup is the trophy — the "cup" in the event's title refers to the trophy itself. And the Ryder Cup trophy is one of the most-famous in golf. How big is it? What is made of? Who created it? Who is the figure of a golfer that tops the cup? Let's dive into the cup.

Ed Fiori won several tournaments on the PGA Tour in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But he is best-remembered for being the journeyman pro who tracked down and beat a young, first-year pro named Tiger Woods in 1996, well after Fiori had last been a threat to win.

A mulligan in golf is a "do-over." Don't like the shot you just hit? Declare a "mulligan" and do it over. But do you know what the golf game named Mulligans is?

Finishing atop the money list — the cumulative total of golfers' tournament winnings during a tour season — at the end of the year is a major feather in a golfer's cap. It means you had one of the best, perhaps the best, seasons on tour. Which golfer has won the money title the most often? The answer probably won't surprise you.

The 1972 U.S. Women's Open was the 27th time this major championship was played. Susie Maxwell Berning won it for the second time, making a late birdie for a one-stroke victory.

2-Man No Scotch is the name of a golf format for two-person teams. It combines elements of a couple other formats, but its name (for reasons we'll explain below) lets you know that alternate shot is not part of this game.

The J&B Scotch Pro-Am was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from the late 1970s into the mid-1980s, played in Las Vegas, Nevada. Its champions were all future Hall of Fame members.

The 1973 U.S. Women's Open was the 28th time this major championship tournament was played. And for the champion, it was her third victory in this major.

Snake is the name of a golf bet/side game whose objective is to avoid three-putting. More specifically, you do not want to be the last person in your group to have a three-putt in Snake, because that is the person who has to pay off the wager.

Rory McIlroy made a huge splash when he burst onto the PGA Tour around 2010, barely out of his teens. Two of his first four wins on the tour were major championships, and in both of them his winning margin was a whopping eight strokes.