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LIV Golf
LIV Golf, also called the LIV Golf League, is a Saudi PIF-backed professional golf league launched in June 2022 with 54-hole shotgun-start events, permanent teams, and large guaranteed payouts; it moved to 72 holes in 2026 and entered chapter 11 restructuring that September.
Long drive
Long drive is golf's distance-only competition, contested on the World Long Drive tour since 1974. Competitors use 47-48 inch, low-loft (4-8.5 degree) conforming drivers to hit grid-bound drives; Zack Holton won the 2025 world title at 471 yards.
Louis Oosthuizen
Louis Oosthuizen (Lodewicus Theodorus Oosthuizen, born 1982), South African golfer, 2010 Open champion at St Andrews by seven strokes; runner-up in all four majors; LIV Golf Southern Guards GC captain.
Lowest rounds of golf
Lowest rounds of golf: sub-60 competitive scores. Jim Furyk's 58 (2016 Travelers) is the PGA Tour record; Al Geiberger shot the first 59 (1977); Sorenstam's 59 leads the LPGA; Rhein Gibson's 55 is the lowest ever.
LPGA
LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association), founded 1950 by 13 Founders, is the longest-standing women's professional sports organization, running the LPGA Tour: 33 events, $132M+ 2026 prize fund, five majors, Race to the CME Globe finale.
Lucas Glover
Lucas Glover, American PGA Tour golfer from Greenville, South Carolina, 2009 U.S. Open champion at Bethpage Black (276, two clear of Mickelson, Duval, Barnes). Six tour wins, including the 2023 Wyndham and FedEx St. Jude back-to-back after beating the putting yips with a broom-handle putter.
Lucy Li
Lucy Li, American professional golfer on the LPGA Tour (joined 2023), youngest-ever qualifier for the 2014 U.S. Women's Open at 11 years, 8 months, 19 days; no LPGA win; T2 after 54 holes of the 2026 AIG Women's Open.
Ludvig Åberg
Ludvig Åberg, Swedish PGA Tour golfer born 1999 in Eslov; two Tour wins (2023 RSM Classic, 2025 Genesis Invitational), first PGA TOUR U direct-access graduate, Europe Ryder Cup winner 2023 and 2025, career-high world No. 4.
Luke Donald
Luke Donald, English professional golfer (full name Luke Campbell Donald, turned pro 2001). World No. 1 from May 29, 2011 without a major; won the 2011 WGC-Accenture Match Play; Ryder Cup winner four times as player and twice as captain (2023, 2025), retained for 2027.
Luke Kwon
Luke Kwon (born 1992, Seoul) is a South Korean-born American professional golfer and YouTube golf creator; 2019 Qinhuangdao Championship winner on PGA Tour China, 2024 Creator Classic champion, Asian Tour player.
Lydia Ko
Lydia Ko, New Zealand golfer from Auckland, youngest LPGA Tour winner at 15y4m2d (2012 CPKC Women's Open), three majors, Olympic silver, bronze, and gold, and 2024 LPGA Hall of Fame inductee.
Marc Leishman
Marc Leishman, Australian pro golfer from Warrnambool, Victoria; six-time PGA Tour winner, 2009 Rookie of the Year, 2015 Open runner-up; joined LIV Golf's Ripper GC in 2022, winning LIV Miami 2025 and the 2024 Team Championship.
Marco Penge
Marco Penge, English professional golfer from Horsham, West Sussex, turned pro in 2017. Won three 2025 DP World Tour events (Hainan Classic, Danish Golf Championship, Open de España), finished second in the Race to Dubai, and joined the PGA Tour in 2026.
Margaret Abbott
Margaret Ives Abbott, American golfer, won the 1900 Paris Olympic women's golf event with 47 strokes, first American woman Olympic champion; she never knew it, receiving a porcelain bowl, rediscovered by historian Paula Welch.
Mark O'Meara
Mark Francis O'Meara, American golfer, 16 PGA Tour wins; won the 1998 Masters and 1998 Open at Royal Birkdale at 41, the oldest to take two majors in one year; World Golf Hall of Fame 2015.
Martin Borgmeier
Martin Borgmeier (born 1991, Paderborn, Germany) is a German long drive professional, 2022 World Long Drive Champion who beat Bryson DeChambeau with a 426-yard final drive, 2018 European champion, with a 239.3 mph ball speed record.
Martin Kaymer
Martin Kaymer, German golfer, two-time major champion (2010 PGA Championship, 2014 U.S. Open), former world No. 1, holed the 2012 Ryder Cup-winning putt at Medinah; now captains LIV Golf's Cleeks GC.
Mason Phelps
Mason Elliott Phelps (1885-1945), American amateur golfer from Chicago, 1904 Olympic gold medalist with the Western Golf Association team, =5 individually, Western Amateur champion 1908 and 1910, later president of Pheoll Manufacturing Co.; distinct from equestrian Mason Phelps, Jr.
Masters Tournament
Masters Tournament: annual men's major golf championship, first played 1934 as Augusta National Invitation Tournament, held each April at Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia. Invitation-only, same course yearly, green jacket, Nicklaus six titles, record 268 (Dustin Johnson 2020).
Match play
Match play, golf's head-to-head format under Rule 3.2, scores by holes won, lost or tied, allows concessions of stroke, hole or match, and needs no scorecard; used in the Ryder Cup and the PGA Tour's 2028 Tour Championship.
Matt Fitzpatrick
Matt Fitzpatrick, born Matthew Thomas Fitzpatrick in 1994, is an English golfer who won the 2013 U.S. Amateur and 2022 U.S. Open at The Country Club.
Matt Kuchar
Matt Kuchar, American PGA Tour golfer born 1978 in Winter Park, Florida; Georgia Tech graduate, 1997 U.S. Amateur champion, nine PGA Tour wins including the 2012 Players Championship, no major title, 2016 Olympic bronze medalist.
Matthew Wolff
Matthew Wolff (born 1999) is an American golfer; 2019 NCAA champion, 3M Open winner in his third pro start, 2020 U.S. Open runner-up, and a LIV Golf player for RangeGoats GC.
Maurice Flitcroft
Maurice Gerald Flitcroft (1929–2007) was a British crane operator from Barrow-in-Furness who, having never played a full round, shot 121 in qualifying for the 1976 Open, then re-entered for years under pseudonyms.
Maverick McNealy
Maverick McNealy, also known as Maverick Scott McNealy, is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour who won his first title at the 2024 RSM Classic.
Max Homa
Max Homa (John Maxwell Homa), American pro golfer from Burbank, California; 2013 NCAA individual champion for Cal, six-time PGA Tour winner, 2023 World No. 5, Ryder Cup 2023 and Presidents Cup 2022 and 2024 player.
Men's major golf championships
The men's major golf championships, or golf majors, are the four most prestigious tournaments in men's professional golf: the Masters, PGA Championship, U.S. Open, and The Open Championship.
Michael Brennan (golfer)
Michael Brennan, American pro golfer from Leesburg, Virginia, Wake Forest graduate, won the 2025 Bank of Utah Championship, 2026 Wyndham Championship, and 2026 Baycurrent Classic on the PGA Tour.
Michael La Sasso
Michael La Sasso (born 2004) is an American golfer from Raleigh, N.C., the 2025 NCAA Division I individual champion for Ole Miss who joined LIV Golf's HyFlyers GC in 2026 and won LIV Golf Indianapolis.
Michelle Wie West
Michelle Wie West (born 1989, Honolulu) is an American golfer, teenage prodigy, and 2014 U.S. Women's Open champion with five LPGA wins; retired 2023, returned for the 2026 U.S. Women's Open and WTGL.