The official longest drive in PGA Tour history has been achieved by Davis Love III. He hit a 476 yards (435 metres) drive on the 18th hole at the Kapalua's Plantation Course at the 2004 Mercedes Championship.
The Walker Cup is a golf trophy awarded to the winning team of a competition between leading male amateur golfers, the United States versus Great Britain and Ireland. The contest is held every 2nd year.
Jack Nicklaus was the first to successfully defend his Masters title. He won the tournament 6 times including the concurrent years of in 1965 and 1966.
The most successful Portuguese golfer at the time of writing is Ricardo Gouveia. Gouveia has 5 wins across the main European Tour and the Challenge Tour.
On the golfing podcast Chasing Scratch two golfing tragics, Mike and Eli, document their efforts to drop from around a 10 handicap to scratch in 1 year.
Lee Janzen has won two major championships, the 1993 US Open at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey, west of New York City and the 1998 US Open at the Lake Course of the Olympic Club in San Francisco, California.
The European Ryder Cup team for 2021 has been finalised as follows: Jon Rahm, Tommy Fleetwood, Tyrrell Hatton, Bernd Wiesberger, Rory McIlroy, Viktor Hovland, Paul Casey, Matt Fitzpatrick, Lee Westwood, Sergio Garcia, Shane Lowry, and Ian Poulter.
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