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Golf · Level 10: Professional · Sub-level 10.5

Rankings and Records

4 tests · 40 facts · updated 13 October 2026 · markdown

How the best are measured: world rankings, scoring records, career records, and the game's honours.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1World rankingsTake a test

  1. Covers events on many tours.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  2. First known as the Sony Ranking.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  3. Seve took over soon after.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  4. 104 weeks.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  5. After a run of wins in 2024.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  6. Stronger fields give more points.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  7. Over 680 weeks in all.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  8. 1986, 2006 and 2022.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  9. An average, not a total.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  10. Older results fade but still count.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · applied

Test 2Scoring recordsTake a test

  1. In 1977 at Colonial in Memphis.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  2. At the Travelers Championship.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  3. At the 2017 Open at Royal Birkdale.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  4. Tiger Woods won by 15 in 2000.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  5. Called 'the shot heard round the world'.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  6. Tiger Woods has five.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  7. Shared by Anderson, Jones, Hogan and Nicklaus.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  8. 1977, 2016 and 2017.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  9. 1935, 1986 and 2017.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  10. At the Travelers Championship.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · applied

Test 3Career recordsTake a test

  1. At the 2021 PGA Championship.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  2. In 1997; Spieth was a few months older in 2015.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  3. Woods went on to make 142.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  4. In 1933.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  5. Hagen won four in a row in the 1920s.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  6. A 'triple crown' of national Opens.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  7. 73 of them.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  8. 1933, 1971 and 2021.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  9. Five, four and two.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  10. He won the 2021 PGA Championship.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · applied

Test 4Honours and the Hall of FameTake a test

  1. Where it had first opened in 1974.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  2. From 1998 to 2023.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  3. Voted by the players.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  4. Named after the 1999 US Open champion.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  5. The PGA of America's version is the Vardon Trophy.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  6. The USGA's highest honour.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  7. Given by the GCSAA in the USA.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  8. The ceremony is the last step.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  9. 1974, 1998 and 2024.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · recall

  10. In North Carolina.

    Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records · applied

Sources

Major championship, tour, team competition and Olympic records (Augusta National, USGA, PGA of America, The R&A, PGA Tour, DP World Tour, LPGA, LET, IGF, IOC), the world rankings and the World Golf Hall of Fame; only settled facts used as keys; original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

  • Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records40