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Patrick Cantlay
Patrick Cantlay, American PGA Tour golfer born 1992 in Long Beach, California; UCLA star and 54-week world No. 1 amateur; eight tour wins including 2021 FedExCup, Tour Championship, and two Memorial titles; no major win.
Patrick McEnroe
Patrick McEnroe, American former tennis pro and younger brother of John McEnroe; 1989 French Open doubles champion, longest-serving U.S. Davis Cup captain (2001-10, 2007 title), USTA development chief, and ESPN commentator.
Patrick Mouratoglou
Patrick Mouratoglou (born 1970) is a French tennis coach who guided Serena Williams to ten more Grand Slam titles from 2012 and founded the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy.
Patrick Reed
Patrick Reed, American golfer, 2018 Masters champion with nine PGA Tour wins; joined LIV Golf in 2022, filed defamation suits against Golf Channel and Brandel Chamblee, and left LIV in January 2026 to return to the PGA Tour.
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.
Paul McBeth
Paul McBeth, PDGA #27523, American professional disc golfer from Huntington Beach, California; multi-time world champion, holder of the 1132-rated record round, $10M Discraft contract, and founder of the Paul McBeth Foundation.
Paula Badosa
Paula Badosa (Paula Badosa Gibert), Spanish tennis player born 1997 in New York City; former world No. 2, 2021 Indian Wells WTA 1000 champion, four WTA titles, 2025 Australian Open semifinalist, chronic back injury and 2024 Comeback Player of the Year.
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.
PBA Tour season
A PBA Tour season is the calendar year of professional ten-pin bowling events run by the Professional Bowlers Association, where members compete for titles, points, and earnings.
PBA Tournament of Champions
PBA Tournament of Champions, PBA major bowling championship for PBA champions only, first held 1962 in Indianapolis (won by Joe Joseph). Hosted at AMF Riviera Lanes, Fairlawn, Ohio; record four-time winner Jason Belmonte; 2026 champion Alex Horton.
PBA World Championship
PBA World Championship, the final major of the PBA Tour season and culminating event of the World Series of Bowling; EJ Tackett won it four straight years (2023-2026), beating Zach Wilkins 188-181 in 2026.
PDC European Tour
PDC European Tour: series of Professional Darts Corporation ranking darts tournaments across continental Europe, staged by PDC Europe since 2007; 48-player events counting toward the Order of Merit and European Championship qualification.
PDC Order of Merit
PDC Order of Merit (Werner Rankings Ladder): the Professional Darts Corporation's world darts ranking, a rolling two-year prize-money list (£1 = 1 point) governing qualification, seeding, and Tour Card retention.
PDC World Darts Championship
PDC World Darts Championship, also WDC World Darts Championship, the Professional Darts Corporation's annual 501-format world title event held since 1994 at Alexandra Palace, London; 128 players, £5m prize fund, Sid Waddell Trophy.
PDGA World Championships
PDGA World Championships: annual disc golf world titles run by the Professional Disc Golf Association since 1982 (Los Angeles). Four events since 2018: Professional, Masters, Amateur, Junior; 2025 pro champions Gannon Buhr and Ohn Scoggins in Finland.
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.
Peng Shuai (彭帅)
Peng Shuai (彭帅), born 1986, Chinese tennis player; first Chinese world No. 1 (doubles, 2014), Wimbledon 2013 and Roland Garros 2014 champion with Hsieh Su-wei; 2021 sexual assault allegation against Zhang Gaoli led to WTA's China boycott.
Perfect game (bowling)
Perfect game (bowling): a 300 score from twelve consecutive strikes in ten-pin bowling, ten frames plus two bonus balls; USBC- and PBA-recognized, with the 900 series of three straight 300s achieved by only 40 bowlers.
Pétanque
Pétanque, a French boules sport born in 1907 at La Ciotat, Provence, from jeu provençal via Jules Lenoir and Ernest Pitiot; played feet together in a circle, governed by the FIPJP and FFPJP.
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.
Pete Sampras
Pete Sampras (Petros Sampras, "Pistol Pete"), American tennis player born 1971; won 14 Grand Slam singles titles (7 Wimbledon, 5 US Open, 2 Australian), 286 weeks at No. 1, six straight year-end No. 1 finishes, Hall of Fame 2007.
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.
Peter Graf
Peter Graf (1938-2013), German insurance and used-car salesman, father, coach and manager of tennis champion Steffi Graf; convicted 1997 in Mannheim of evading about $7.4 million in taxes on her earnings, imprisoned, released April 1998, died of pancreatic cancer.
Peter Wright (darts player)
Peter Wright, "Snakebite" (born 1970, Livingston, Scotland), Scottish PDC darts player and two-time world champion (2020, 2022), 2017 UK Open and 2021 World Matchplay winner, known for his mohawk and showmanship.
Petr Korda
Petr Korda (born 1968, Prague) is a Czech former left-handed tennis player, 1998 Australian Open champion over Marcelo Rios, 1992 French Open runner-up, career-high world No 2, father of Sebastian Korda.
Petra Kvitová
Petra Kvitová, Czech left-handed tennis player, two-time Wimbledon champion (2011, 2014), 31 WTA titles, career-high No. 2, 2016 Rio bronze, retired at the 2025 US Open after a comeback from a 2016 knife attack.
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.