Golf Compendium

Winning on any pro golf tour is an achievement. Winning multiple times in the same year is huge. And even bigger? Winning two or more tournaments multiple years in a row. That's what we are looking at here: LPGA Tour golfers with the longest streaks of consecutive, multi-win seasons.

The golfer who holds the record for making the most cuts in a row on the LPGA Tour doesn't just hold the LPGA Tour record. She made more consecutive cuts than any other player in pro tour history, and by a long shot. Her consecutive cut streak was more than twice as long as Tiger Woods' record-long PGA Tour cut streak .

The lowest, 18-hole score yet recorded in one of the major championships of women's professional golf is 60, and only golfer so far has gone that low.

The Chevron Championship and Women's PGA Championship are two of the majors of women's professional golf . Winning a single major is a great achievement, winning two majors in the same year is something not many golfers have done. What about winning these two majors in the same year? Only three golfers so far have achieved that.

The Chevron Championship and the U.S. Women's Open are two of the major championships of women's pro golf . Winning one of them in any given year is a big achievement. Winning them both in the same year? That's something very few golfers have ever done.

"Champion's Leap" is the name of one of the best-known traditions at any of the major championships in women's professional golf , or any other LPGA Tour tournament. It is the celebratory, flying leap taken by the golfer who wins the Chevron Championship into water near the 18th green. Let's go over some details of this fun frolic, starting with how the Champion's Leap came to be.

Winning back-to-back titles in the LPGA Tour major today known as the Chevron Championship has proved an elusive achievement. The tournament's history dates to 1972. But in all that time, only two golfers have won in consecutive years. And only one of those two golfers won it back-to-back after the tournament became a major.

The Epson Tour is the LPGA's developmental circuit, the second-level tour for pro women golfers in the United States. It is a steppingstone to the LPGA Tour, and as you'll see on the following list of the Epson Tour's Players of the Year many of those award winners went on to successful LPGA Tour careers.

There is an important tournament in the world of professional golf that is sometimes referred to as "the Dinah," even though that is not the tournament's actual name. What is this event, and why is it sometimes called that?

The Chevron Championship on the LPGA Tour is one of the five majors of women's professional golf . It dates to 1972, and since that time only a handful of golfers have won this major wire-to-wire.

The Chevron Championship is one of the five golf tournaments that make up the LPGA majors . Which golfers hold the records as the tournament's youngest winner, and its oldest? The youngest wasn't yet 19 years old, and the oldest was in her early 40s.

Have any pairs of brother-sister golfers both won on the biggest men's and women's tours — the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour, respectively — in the world? Yes, but such sibling pairs are rare. So far, only three pairs of brothers-and-sisters have pulled off the PGA Tour/LPGA Tour double.

What is the largest playoff that has ever taken place on the LPGA Tour? That is, the most golfers who participated in a playoff at one of the tour's official events?

What is the lowest winning score in the history of the Chevron Championship, one of the majors of women's professional golf? How about the 18-, 36- and 54-hole tournament scoring records? Let's find out.

Which golfer holds the record for most wins in the Chevron Championship? There are actually three golfers who share this record. Each won this LPGA major championship three times.

The LPGA Tour record for most wins in a single season is 13, and the golfer who won those 13 tournaments in 1963 is Mickey Wright. In the LPGA's history, only a handful of golfers have reached double-digit victories in a single season.

The youngest-ever winner on the Epson Tour was 16 years old at the time, and she is the only golfer younger than 17 to win on that tour. Several other golfers won at the age of 17, and three of the golfers on the list below were amateurs at the times of their victories.

Today there are five golf tournaments that make up the LPGA majors, the major championships of women's professional golf. Those five tournaments are the U.S. Women's Open, Women's PGA Championship, Chevron Championship, Women's British Open and Evian Championship. But the identities of the women's majors have changed frequently through the years.

Which golfers on the LPGA Tour have been best at racking up birdies? One way to look at the question is through the LPGA's Total Birdies statistic. That stat ranks golfers each year based on their total number of birdies recorded during official tournament rounds.

The statistical category all the major pro tours use to measure golfers' ability on bunker shots is sand save percentage — how good a golfer is at getting up-and-down from greenside bunkers. Following is the list of yearly leaders in sand saves on the LPGA Tour.