# Rankings and Records · Golf Level 10: Professional

Golf · Level 10: Professional · Insporta Book (https://book.insporta.app/golf/level-10/rankings-and-records/)

Rankings and Records in Golf (Level 10: Professional) on Insporta: 40 sourced facts behind 4 tests. Covers: world rankings; scoring records; and more.

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

## Test 1: World rankings

- Covers events on many tours. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- First known as the Sony Ranking. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- Seve took over soon after. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- 104 weeks. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- After a run of wins in 2024. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- Stronger fields give more points. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- Over 680 weeks in all. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- 1986, 2006 and 2022. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- An average, not a total. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- Older results fade but still count. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)

## Test 2: Scoring records

- In 1977 at Colonial in Memphis. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- At the Travelers Championship. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- At the 2017 Open at Royal Birkdale. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- Tiger Woods won by 15 in 2000. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- Called 'the shot heard round the world'. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- Tiger Woods has five. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- Shared by Anderson, Jones, Hogan and Nicklaus. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- 1977, 2016 and 2017. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- 1935, 1986 and 2017. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- At the Travelers Championship. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)

## Test 3: Career records

- At the 2021 PGA Championship. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- 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)
- Woods went on to make 142. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- In 1933. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- 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)
- A 'triple crown' of national Opens. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- 73 of them. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- 1933, 1971 and 2021. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- Five, four and two. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- He won the 2021 PGA Championship. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)

## Test 4: Honours and the Hall of Fame

- Where it had first opened in 1974. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- From 1998 to 2023. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- Voted by the players. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- Named after the 1999 US Open champion. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- 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)
- The USGA's highest honour. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- Given by the GCSAA in the USA. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- The ceremony is the last step. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- 1974, 1998 and 2024. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)
- In North Carolina. (Source: Official World Golf Ranking, Rolex Rankings, PGA Tour and World Golf Hall of Fame records)

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.

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