When the Augusta co-founder Bobby Jones visited Royal Liverpool in 1937 he noticed that the past captains all wore red blazers when sitting for dinner. He adapted the idea for Augusta National members and Masters Champions.
The World Golf Championships are four annual events designed to bring the best players together other than for the existing four major championships. They are official money events on both the PGA Tour and the European Tour. The events are the WGC - Workday Championship, WGC - Dell Technologies Match Play, WGC - FedEx St Jude Invitational and the WGC- HSBC Champions.
The easiest way to qualify for the Champions Tour is a successful PGA tour career, but if that isn’t your path, you’ll need to survive qualifying school.
The Halford Hewitt Cup is an annual amateur golf tournament for the old boys of 64 English and Scottish public schools. Each school competes with five foursomes pairs, making 640 competitors in all.
In 2021 the PGA introduced the PIP to recognize (and reward financially) players on their tour that have a positive impact, not just through their play but also other factors including popularity and social media engagement.
The PGA of America (USPGA) was founded in 1916 to support individuals making their living as professional golfers and to advance the sport of professional golf. In 1968 some members of the PGA of America decided they wanted things to be different and broke away to form the PGA Tour.
Jack Nicklaus, Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Gene Sarazen, all legends of the game, are the six players to have won a career Grand Slam.
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