Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
Facts and figures about The Open Championship, the Club, the Course and more… • 2012 marks the eleventh playing of the Open Championship at Royal…
The Walker Cup – player and match records and statistics (up to and including 2007) Click here for the full match scores 1922 – 2009
The Walker Cup – player and match records and statistics (up to and including 2007) Click here for the full match scores 1922 – 2009The…
Left-handers – how many have won major championships?
Left-handers – how many have won major championships?Only four champions, with seven championships between them: Sir Bob Charles, Mike Weir, Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson.…
Royal St George’s Golf Club, Sandwich
Facts and figures about The Open Championship, the Club, the Course and more… • There have been only three American winners of The Open at…
The World Cup
The World Cup Founded by Canadian industrialist John Jay Hopkins, in the hope of promoting goodwill between nations through golf, the World Cup began life…
The longest putt ever holed
The longest putt ever holedThe longest known putt is attributed to Fergus Muir, who holed a monster of 375 feet on the 125 yard par…
The Ryder Cup
The Ryder Cup Created by English seed merchant and keen amateur golfer Samuel Ryder, the first match was played in Massachussets in 1927, when America…
The World Cup – Match history & records
The World Cup – Match history & recordsFounded by Canadian industrialist John Jay Hopkins, in the hope of promoting goodwill between nations through golf, the…
The lowest golf course in the world
Furnace Creek Golf Course, in California’s Death Valley, lies 214 feet below sea level, 6,236 yards off the back tees and a par 70.
The Ryder Cup – Match history & records 1927 – 2012
The origins of the Ryder Cup date back to two unofficial matches in 1921 and 1926, when a group of American professionals, including Walter Hagen,…
How the Official World Golf Ranking works (from January 1st, 2007)
RELATED STORIES Latest Official World Golf Ranking Changes to the system (from 01/01/2007) NEWS & TOUR TOP STORIES Nick Faldo receives his Knighthood LPGA…
The Career of Seve Ballesteros
The Career of Seve Ballesteros Five times a major champion, 91 worldwide victories, 61 weeks as world no. 1 and the man who rejuvenated European…
The Oldest Winners
The Oldest WinnersOf any Major Championship: Men – Julius Boros, 48 years 4 months and 18 days when he won the US PGA Championship in…
The Solheim Cup
The Solheim Cup The ladies’ equivalent of the Ryder Cup, the Solheim Cup was first played in 1990, the brainchild of Karsten Solheim, the Norwegian-American…
Association of Golf Writers Trophy
Association of Golf Writers Trophy Since 1951, when Max Faulkner (left) won, it is chosen by a poll of members of the Association and awarded…
What is stroke play in golf?
Strokeplay is the most common form of competition at most professional and amateur tournaments and is seen as the purist form of competitive golf
Solheim Records
Solheim Records Largest margin of victory in ind. matches Most Solheim Cup Events played (of 13) Most matches won Margin of victory in Overall competition…
Holed out at last…
Holed out at last…We love golf dearly, but it is perhaps possible to take this passion too far. For instance, beyond – or in these…