Golf Compendium

The 1963 U.S. Women's Open was the 18th time this major championship was played. The winner was a 23-year-old who earned the first of her three career victories in majors.

Betty Burfeindt was a professional golfer on the LPGA Tour from the late 1960s into the early 1980s. She won multiple tournaments, including one major championship.

The Wills Masters was a professional golf tournament played in Australia (and not to be confused with the same-named tournament that took place in New Zealand in some of the same years) in the 1960s and 1970s. It usually drew a strong international field and its winners list includes Arnold Palmer and Gary Player.

How many playoffs has Rory McIlroy played in pro golf tournaments, and what is his win-loss record in those playoffs? Is he good at playoffs, or not so much? Those are the questions we are answering here.

"15 Chips" is the name of a game for the practice green, a game that will help you improve your chipping over time. You can play this game by yourself, or you and a buddy can play it against each other.

The 1964 U.S. Women's Open was the 19th time this major championship was played. And it was the fourth time the winner was Mickey Wright, but she needed an 18-hole playoff to take the trophy.

John Morgan was an English professional golfer who came on the scene in the earliest days of the European Tour. He won tournaments in Europe and Africa, but went on to much greater success after turning 50 and joining the senior circuit.

"Train Wreck" is the name of a game for multiple groups of four golfers. In Train Wreck, groups earn points based on each player's score, and those points accumulate through the round. But each group must meet a minimum requirement on each hole. If a group doesn't, uh-oh, all those points are lost and it starts over at zero.

The 1965 U.S. Women's Open was the 20th time this major championship was played. Carol Mann played through a bad cold to claim the trophy.

The Coral Gables Open golf tournament had two distinct phases in its PGA Tour history: a period in the 1930s, and another, shorter era in the 1960s. In two different years it was played twice. In one year it was played with 6-inch wide cups.

Bill Collins was a winner on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s. A chronic bad back curtailed his career, but not before he beat Arnold Palmer in an 18-hole playoff and earned a place on Team USA in the Ryder Cup.

What was Arnold Palmer's biggest runaway victory? In 1962, he won a PGA Tour event by 12 strokes — the biggest margin of victory of his career.

"Progressive best ball" is the name of a team golf format sometimes used for charity tournaments, association playdays, league tournaments and the like. It's a familiar format, even if you don't recognize it under this name.

The 1966 U.S. Women's Open was the 21st time this major championship was played. The champion was a first-time winner on the LPGA Tour.

The Dominion Energy Charity Classic was a golf tournament on the Champions Tour, the PGA Tour-owned circuit for golfers ages 50-and-over. The tournament was played from the mid-2010s to the mid-2020s, and in most years was one of the Champions Tour's playoff tournaments.