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Golf
Golf, a club-and-ball sport originating in Scotland, is governed by the R&A and USGA, played over 18 holes in match or stroke play, with 14-club limits, a 317-yard ball standard, and 28.1 million U.S. golfers in 2024.
Golf at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Golf at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics: return after 112 years since 1904, 72-hole stroke play for men and women at Reserva de Marapendi; Justin Rose and Inbee Park won gold.
Golf ball
Golf ball: the struck ball of golf; featherie, gutty, and Haskell ancestors; dimpled surface cuts drag; R&A/USGA rules cap weight 1.62 oz, diameter 1.62 in, ODS 317 yards.
Golf Channel
Golf Channel, launched January 17, 1995 by Arnold Palmer and Joe Gibbs, is the first single-sport cable network and the U.S. TV home of golf, now part of Versant's USA Sports with rights through 2032-2033.
Golf club
Golf club: the grip, shaft, and clubhead implement used to strike a golf ball; made as woods, irons, and putters under USGA/R&A Equipment Rules, with a 14-club limit, 460 cc driver cap, and hickory-to-titanium material history.
Golf clubs and courses in Canada
Golf clubs and courses in Canada number over 2,000, from the Royal Montreal Golf Club of 1873, the oldest in North America, to the ranked Cabot resort courses.
Golf clubs and courses in Mexico and Latin America
A survey of significant golf clubs and courses across Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, covering resort destinations like Los Cabos, tour venues, green fees, and rankings.
Golf course
Golf course: the defined land area on which golf is played, usually 18 holes with teeing areas, fairways, bunkers, penalty areas, and putting greens; shaped by strategic, penal, and heroic design schools and governed by USGA/R&A rules.
Good Good (YouTube channel)
Good Good (Good Good Golf) is a golf YouTube channel and media-apparel company founded in 2020 by Garrett Clark, Stephen Castaneda, Matt Scharff, and Micah Morris, with CEO Matt Kendrick; about 2.1M subscribers, $45M raised in 2025, Frisco, Texas.
Goran Ivanišević
Goran Ivanišević (Горан Иванишевић), Croatian tennis player born 1971 in Split; 2001 Wimbledon champion as a wildcard ranked 125, the only Open Era wildcard to win a Grand Slam singles title; later coached Djokovic.
Gordon Reid (tennis)
Gordon Reid, born 1991, is a Scottish wheelchair tennis player, Rio 2016 Paralympic singles gold medallist, inaugural Wimbledon wheelchair singles champion 2016, and record doubles partner of Alfie Hewett.
Graeme McDowell
Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer (born 1979, Portrush), 2010 U.S. Open champion at Pebble Beach, first European winner since 1970, holed the winning 2010 Ryder Cup putt, 11 European Tour wins, now on LIV Golf.
Grand Prix tennis circuit
The Grand Prix tennis circuit, also known as the ILTF Grand Prix Circuit, was a series of professional men's tennis tournaments run from 1970 until 1990, when the ATP Tour replaced it.
Grand Slam (golf)
Grand Slam (golf): winning all major championships in one year or a career. Bobby Jones's 1930 original four events; modern Masters, PGA, U.S. Open, Open Championship; six men's career winners including McIlroy 2025; Tiger Slam; LPGA seven.
Grand Slam (tennis)
Grand Slam (tennis): the four majors, Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and US Open, plus the calendar-year sweep first achieved by Don Budge in 1938; 2000 ranking points, equal prize money since 2007.
Grand Slam draw structure and seeding
Grand Slam draw structure and seeding explains how the four majors fill their 128-player singles draws with direct entries, qualifiers, and wild cards, and place 32 seeds.
Grand Slam of Curling
Grand Slam of Curling (GSOC): annual elite series of men's and women's curling events, majors on the tour circuit; $2.1 million season prize money, equal purses since 2015, owned by The Curling Group since 2024.
Grand Slam of Darts
Grand Slam of Darts: PDC major darts tournament held each November in Wolverhampton since 2007, also called the Eric Bristow Trophy event. Unique group-stage format, 32 players rising to 48 in 2026; Phil Taylor won six titles, Luke Littler the 2024 and 2025 editions.
Grand Slam qualifying competition
Grand Slam qualifying is a single-elimination tennis tournament held in the days before each of the four Grand Slams, where 128 players outside direct entry range play three rounds for 16 places in the main draw.
Grant Horvat
Grant Horvat, American golf YouTuber (Grant Horvat Golf, 1.5M+ subs), ex-Good Good member who left in 2022; former Palm Beach Atlantic college golfer, Takomo Golf part-owner, Primo apparel owner, TaylorMade ambassador.
Grass court
Grass court, also called lawn tennis court, a natural-turf tennis surface; the fastest, lowest-bouncing of the three court types, original surface of tennis (Wimbledon since 1877), now rare on tour and typically 100% perennial ryegrass.
Grayson Murray
Grayson Murray (1993-2024), American PGA Tour golfer from Raleigh, North Carolina; won the 2017 Barbasol Championship and 2024 Sony Open; died by suicide at 30 after withdrawing from the Charles Schwab Challenge.
Greg Norman
Greg Norman (Gregory John Norman AO) is an Australian golfer who was world number one for 331 weeks and won the Open Championship in 1986 and 1993.
Greg Rusedski
Greg Rusedski, born 1973 in Montreal, is a British-Canadian former tennis player, 1997 US Open runner-up to Patrick Rafter, former world No. 4, 15-time ATP titlist, and 149 mph serve record holder.
Grigor Dimitrov (Григор Димитров Димитров)
Grigor Dimitrov (Григор Димитров Димитров), Bulgarian tennis player from Haskovo, born 1991; 2008 Wimbledon and US Open boys' champion, winner of the 2017 ATP Finals and Cincinnati Masters, career-high No. 3.
Grip (tennis)
A tennis grip is the way a player holds the racquet handle, named by which of the handle's eight bevels rests under the index-finger knuckle and heel pad.
Grunting in tennis
Grunting in tennis: loud exhalations on shots, popularized from 1959 and by Monica Seles. Studies show grunts slow opponents' shot perception (21–33 ms) and raise the grunter's stroke velocity; ITF rule 26 treats excessive grunting as hindrance.
Guillermo Vilas
Guillermo Vilas, Argentine tennis player (born 1952), four-time Grand Slam champion (French and US Opens 1977, Australian 1978-79) with 62 titles, who peaked at ATP No. 2 but is widely argued to have been an unrecognized No. 1 in 1975-76 and 1977.
Guo Yue
Guo Yue (郭跃, born 1988) is a retired Chinese table tennis player from Anshan, Liaoning: two Olympic team golds (2008, 2012), two Olympic bronzes, and the 2007 world singles title.
Gustavo Kuerten
Gustavo Kuerten (Guga) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player who won the French Open three times and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2012.