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Paul Azinger
Paul Azinger (born 1960) is an American golfer and TV analyst, winner of the 1993 PGA Championship, 12-time PGA Tour winner, 1987 Player of the Year, and victorious 2008 Ryder Cup captain.
Paul Casey
Paul Casey (born 1977, Cheltenham) is an English golfer, former world No. 3, with 15 DP World Tour wins, three PGA Tour titles, five Ryder Cups, and a LIV Golf Crushers GC player since 2022.
Paula Creamer
Paula Creamer, the "Pink Panther," American LPGA golfer born 1986; 10 LPGA wins, 2010 U.S. Women's Open champion, seven Solheim Cup teams with five wins, now a U.S. assistant captain.
Payne Stewart
Payne Stewart (1957–1999), American professional golfer with 11 PGA Tour wins and three majors: the 1989 PGA Championship and 1991 and 1999 U.S. Opens; died in a Learjet cabin-pressure failure near Aberdeen, South Dakota.
Pebble Beach Golf Links
Pebble Beach Golf Links, Pebble Beach, California; public seaside course opened February 22, 1919, designed by Jack Neville and Douglas Grant for Samuel F.B. Morse; six U.S. Opens, first U.S. Women's Open 2023, Golf Digest No. 1 public course since 2003.
Pete Dye
Pete Dye (1925-2020), American self-taught golf course architect; with wife Alice created Harbour Town, TPC Sawgrass, Kiawah Ocean Course, Whistling Straits; railroad ties, pot bunkers, island greens; World Golf Hall of Fame 2008.
Peter Alliss
Peter Alliss (1931-2020), English professional golfer and BBC 'voice of golf'; eight-time Ryder Cup player, winner of 20+ tournaments, BBC lead commentator from 1978, and designer of The Belfry.
PGA Championship
PGA Championship, annual men's golf major run by the PGA of America for the Wanamaker Trophy; first played 1916 at Siwanoy (Jim Barnes), match play until 1957, 72-hole stroke play since 1958, three-hole aggregate playoff since 2000, held each May since 2019.
PGA European Tour
PGA European Tour, now branded the DP World Tour: Europe's principal men's professional golf circuit, founded 1972 under John Jacobs, running the Race to Dubai, Rolex Series and Ryder Cup Europe.
PGA Tour
PGA Tour: leading US men's professional golf organization, founded 1968, Ponte Vedra Beach; runs FedExCup season, Signature Events, PGA Tour Enterprises, and 2028 two-series restructure.
PGA Tour (video game series)
PGA Tour video game series: EA's golf line (Tiger Woods PGA Tour 1998-2013, EA Sports PGA Tour 2023) and 2K's PGA Tour 2K series (2K21, 2K23, 2K25 by HB Studios), rival licensed golf simulations.
PGA Tour Champions
PGA Tour Champions: the PGA TOUR's senior professional golf circuit for men 50 and older, founded 1980 as the Senior PGA Tour, renamed Champions Tour in 2003; 28 events in 2026, five majors, Charles Schwab Cup season race.
Phil Mickelson
Phil Mickelson, American golfer ('Lefty'), six-time major champion (three Masters, two PGA Championships, 2013 Open) with 45 PGA Tour wins; oldest major champion at 50 in 2021; joined LIV Golf in 2022.
Phoenix Open
The Phoenix Open (WM Phoenix Open) is a PGA Tour event dating to 1932, played at TPC Scottsdale since 1987; best-attended Tour stop, famous for the rowdy 20,000-seat par-3 16th hole, zero-waste certification, and 2024 crowd-control crisis.
Pine Valley Golf Club
Pine Valley Golf Club, a private club in Pine Valley, New Jersey, designed by George Crump with Harry Colt and opened in 1918; ranked No. 1 in America by Golf Digest and No. 1 in the world by GOLF, famed for penal architecture and Hell's Half Acre.
Pinehurst Resort
Pinehurst Resort, founded 1895 by James Walker Tufts in North Carolina's Sandhills, is a historic golf resort home to Donald Ross's Pinehurst No. 2, the USGA's first anchor site, and eleven courses including Tom Doak's No. 10.
Ping (golf)
Ping is an American golf equipment manufacturer founded by engineer Karsten Solheim, who began in his California garage in 1959; the company pioneered perimeter weighting and the Anser putter.
Presidents Cup
Presidents Cup, also called President's Cup, is the PGA Tour's biennial match-play golf event: 12 US players vs a 12-player International Team from outside Europe, first held 1994; US leads 13-1-1.
Professional Golfers' Association of America
PGA of America (Professional Golfers' Association of America), founded 1916, is the membership body of ~33,000 U.S. club and teaching golf professionals; distinct from the PGA Tour, it owns the PGA Championship, KPMG Women's PGA, and U.S.-hosted Ryder Cup.
Raymond Floyd
Raymond Floyd is an American professional golfer, born in 1942, who won 22 PGA TOUR titles and four major championships and joined the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1989.
Rickie Fowler
Rickie Fowler (Rick Yutaka Fowler, born 1988), American PGA Tour golfer from Murrieta, California: six tour wins, world No. 4 peak, three major runner-ups, 2023 Rocket Mortgage comeback, five Ryder Cups.
Riviera Country Club
Riviera Country Club (Hogan's Alley), a 1926 George C. Thomas Jr. course in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles; permanent home of the Genesis Invitational since 1973, host of the 1948 U.S. Open, 1983 and 1995 PGA Championships, 2026 U.S. Women's Open, and 2028 Olympic golf.
Robert MacIntyre
Robert MacIntyre, Scottish left-handed professional golfer from Oban; six wins including 2024 Scottish Open and Canadian Open, 2025 U.S. Open runner-up, undefeated 2023 Ryder Cup rookie, career-high world No. 5.
Robert Trent Jones
Robert Trent Jones Sr. (1906–2000), English-born American golf course architect, the "Open Doctor"; designed or remodeled 350–500+ courses, founded ASGCA, built the Alabama Golf Trail; father of Robert Jr. and Rees Jones.
Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer (born 1989, Holywood), six-time major champion; completed the career Grand Slam at the 2025 Masters, first European to do so, with 30 PGA Tour wins and 122 weeks at world number one.
Rory McIlroy PGA Tour
Rory McIlroy PGA Tour (EA SPORTS Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR) is EA Tiburon's 2015 golf game for Xbox One and PS4, the first EA Sports title on Frostbite 3, replacing Tiger Woods PGA Tour but criticized for thin content.
Rory Sabbatini
Rory Sabbatini (born 1976, Durban) is a South African-Slovak golfer, six-time PGA Tour winner (last: 2011 Honda Classic) and Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medalist for Slovakia, with a record final-round 61.
Royal Birkdale Golf Club
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, Merseyside, England; links club founded 1889, royal status 1951. Hosted The Open 11 times (1954–2026, Ryan Fox the latest champion), six Women's Opens, and the 1969 Ryder Cup concession.
Royal Melbourne Golf Club
Royal Melbourne Golf Club is a private golf club in Black Rock, Victoria, Australia, founded in 1891 and home to the famed MacKenzie-designed West Course.
Royal Portrush Golf Club
Royal Portrush Golf Club, founded 1888 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, is the only club outside Great Britain to host The Open (1951, 2019, 2025), on its Harry Colt-designed Dunluce Links.