Golf Compendium

The Bowmaker Tournament was a golf tournament in England played from late 1950s to the early 1970s. It was part of the loosely organized British PGA circuit that pre-dated the formation of the European Tour.

The 1927 Ryder Cup was the very first Ryder Cup played. It was played in the United States between teams representing the USA and Great Britain (just Great Britain, no Ireland yet). The tournament was played over two days, with foursomes and singles match play as the format (no fourballs yet). Teams each included nine golfers and matches were all scheduled for 36 holes. The result was an easy victory for Team USA.

Big Break Mexico was a television series that aired on the Golf Channel in 2013. It was the 19th season of the network's The Big Break franchise. The first episode aired on May 13, 2013. The cast included six men and six women.

Big Break Ka'anapali was a television series that aired on the Golf Channel in 2008. It was the ninth season of the network's The Big Break franchise. The first episode aired on April 15, 2008.

Homero Blancas was a winner on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s, and on the Champions Tour in the 1980s. And he also once carded a round in competition of 55.

Who is the youngest golfer in the history of the LPGA Tour to make the cut in a tour event? The answer to that question is Michelle Wie. When Wie was 13 years old — 13 years, 5 months, 17 days old, to be exact — she made the cut in an LPGA major championship.

The Quicken Loans National, previously called the AT&T National, was played from the mid-2000-aughts to the late 2010s on the PGA Tour.

Vijay Singh has had a long and very successful career as a pro golfer, including three major championships and a 2004 season in which he won nine times on the PGA Tour. But there's also something in Singh's career that he'd like to forget, and that he'd prefer everyone else forget, too. Allegations of cheating at a tournament on the precursor to the Asian Tour in 1985. Actually, we don't even have to refer to the incident as being mere "allegations," since tournament officials concluded that Singh did , in fact, cheat, and the regional governing organization banned him from the tour (today's Asian Tour was not officially founded until 1995). ( Related : The Colin Montgomerie cheating allegation explained ) Here's what happened. Vijay Singh was 22 years old when he showed up at the 1985 Indonesian Open in Jakarta. Like most young pros in their first years as a tour player, Vijay was having his ups and downs — mostly downs. He badly neede...

Have you ever had a round of golf in which you mostly played well but had just a few holes that ruined the round? Of course you have — every golfer has those rounds. But the tournament format/betting game named Three Little Pigs (or 3 Little Pigs) can take care of those holes.

Sandra Post is a Canadian golfer who had success on the LPGA Tour from the late 1960s into the early 1980s. In fact, she set two tour records that weren't broken for decades.