Golf Compendium

Among all the winners of the Senior Players Championship, who has won it with the lowest score? Two golfers share that record, and one of them is Jack Nicklaus.

The 1991 U.S. Senior Open was the 12th time this major championship of men's senior professional golf was played. Jack Nicklaus earned the first of his two wins in this tournament, but needed an 18-hole playoff to do it.

The Tradition (currently known as the Regions Tradition for sponsorship reasons) is a golf tournament on the Champions Tour, and one of the major championships of men's senior professional golf . What is the lowest winning score in this major's history, and which golfers have gone the lowest?

How many pairs of brothers are there who both have won the Champions Tour? So far, only three pairs of brothers have achieved that feat.

The Scrambling statistic in professional golf, also known as Scrambling Percentage, tells us how good golfers are at chipping it close and sinking the following putt. And the golfers on the following list are the ones who led the Champions Tour in Scrambling at the end of each season.

Posting Top 10 finishes throughout the year on any golf tour is a sign of a golfer who is playing consistently well. And it's a great way to fill up a bank account. Below is the list of senior (50-and-over) golfers who have led the Champions Tour in Top 10 finishes each year since that tour's founding in 1980.

The record-low final score in the Senior British Open is 263. That score has, so far, been posted by two golfers in the tournament's history. Unfortunately for one of those golfers, he lost a playoff to the other one.

What is the best score any golfer has posted for one round in the Senior PGA Championship? The tournament's 18-hole scoring record is 62 and, so far, two golfers have achieved that record round.

What are the lowest total scores in the history of the Senior PGA Championship? The best 72-hole total any golfer has yet achieved in this oldest of the senior majors is 265. That's a record shared by two golfers.

Which golfers have won the most major championships combined between the PGA Tour and Champions Tour? The golfer with the highest combined total of regular majors and senior majors is, no surprise, Jack Nicklaus. Nicklaus is the only golfer so far to reach 20 combined victories, and his total is in the mid-20s.

How many golfers, over the course of a career, have won both the British Open and the Senior British Open? Not many! The current count stands at five.

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.

In golf, "senior" usually refers to golfers who are at least 50 years old. When a professional tour golfer turns 50, he becomes eligible to play "senior tournaments." (In women's pro senior golf, some events use 45 as the minimum age.)

Which golfers have won the most senior majors ? In senior (50-and-over) golf, there are five major championships recognized by the Champions Tour (officially named PGA Tour Champions), which is the pre-eminent tour for professional, 50-and-over golfers. The list below includes every golfer with at least two victories in those senior majors.

The Champions Tour (formally named PGA Tour Champions) is the top professional golf tour for senior (50-and-over) golfers. It was founded in 1980. The all-time leader in Champions Tour wins is Bernhard Langer.

The Tradition is the name of a golf tournament on the Champions Tour, and the tournament is counted as one of the five major championships of senior golf by that tour. That makes all the golfers who appear on the list of winners below senior major winners.

Has a golfer ever played his way into a golf tournament on the Champions Tour through the Monday qualifier and then won that tournament? Yes — and it has happened more on the senior circuit than on any other U.S.-based tour.

Which golfers have led the Champions Tour in sand saves each year? That's what the list below shows for this statistical category on the PGA Tour Champions circuit.

Which golfers have led the Champions Tour (today officially named the PGA Tour Champions) in GIR? That's what the list below shows: Every golfer on the senior circuit who has topped the tour in this statistical category, going back to 1988, the first year the tour officially kept this stat.

Hitting fairways? That's something a lot of "older" golfers are better at than younger golfers. At least on the golf courses that you and I play. What about at the pro level? Which golfers have led the Champions Tour in driving accuracy over the years?