Notable scores, highlights from area golf leagues (2024)

FAQs

Has anyone ever birdied 18 holes? ›

The perfect round (score of 54 on a par-72 course) is most commonly described as scoring a birdie on all 18 holes, but no player has ever recorded a perfect round in a professional tournament.

Clampett has become involved in golf course design in recent years. Clampett lives in Bonita Springs, Florida with his second wife, Marianna. He has three children from his first marriage: Katelyn, Daniel, and Michael Clampett; and Marianna has two of her own: Nicholas and Anna Suciu.

That would mean hitting 18 perfect tee shots and 18 perfect second shots and landing in the cup in no more than one or two putts. But no one is ever going to birdie 18 holes. In the perfect game you reach the green in the fewest possible number of strokes and hole your first putt.

He finished the 2015-2016 season 139th on the FedEx Cup points list. From 2017 to 2022, Barnes has been unable to finish inside the top 150 of the FedEx Cup points list. He has now played in over 330 events on the PGA Tour without a victory, although he has earned $8.8 million in total prize money, as of August 2022.

The 59 remains the only time Woods has posted golf's magic number. And, interestingly, he's never shot 60 in his life. “I've shot 61 a bunch,” he says. Four times on tour, to be exact, most recently in the second round of the 2013 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club.

As of January 2021, a condor (four under par) hole-in-one on a par 5 hole had been recorded on five occasions, aided by thin air at high altitude, or by cutting the corner on a doglegged or horseshoe-shaped hole. A horseshoe-shaped par-5 hole once enabled a condor hole-in-one to be achieved with a 3-iron club.

3 = Turkey or Gobbler. 4 = Hambone. 5 = Recently heard referred to as yatzee or five bagger.

The lowest officially recorded round of golf is 55 by Rhein Gibson (12 birdies, two eagles, one hole in one on a par 71) on May 12, 2012, at River Oaks Golf Club in Edmond, Oklahoma. This score is recognized by the Guinness World Records.

Angel Cabrera has been reinstated to the PGA Tour and PGA Tour Champions following a two-year prison sentence for gender violence.

Norman turned 50 in February 2005, but has kept his distance from the senior golf circuit. This is due, in part, because of his focus on business, but also because of lingering hip and back issues.

What happened to golfer Lee Trevino? ›

After winning the PGA Championship in 1974, Trevino was struck by lightning and suffered minor injuries to his arm and back. Later he underwent surgery to remove a damaged spinal disc. Trevino underwent surgery again in 1982, and his chronic back problems significantly restricted his play.

The lowest officially recorded round of golf is 55 by Rhein Gibson (12 birdies, two eagles, one hole in one on a par 71) on May 12, 2012, at River Oaks Golf Club in Edmond, Oklahoma. This score is recognized by the Guinness World Records.

A par 6 golf hole is played like a par 5, except that it will probably take you an additional shot to get the ball on the green. For long hitters, a par 6 is a hole that you can hope to make a birdie or better on. The par 6 should take you four shots to get to the green and then two putts.

If you are playing by yourself as a single player, you could potentially complete your 18-hole round of golf in as little as two hours and thirty minutes. As you add players to your group, you can expect the time to complete a round to grow by roughly thirty minutes for each additional player.

If you look at a golf course scorecard, you will notice that each hole has a hole handicap rating of 1 through 18, from most difficult (1) to least difficult (18).