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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.
Phil Taylor (darts player)
Phil Taylor (born 1960, Stoke-on-Trent), nicknamed The Power, English darts player; record 16-time world champion, 87 major titles, PDC founder in 1993, retired after 2018 final loss to Rob Cross.
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.
Pickleball
Pickleball, a paddle sport blending tennis, badminton, and table tennis, was invented in summer 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington, by Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell, and Barney McCallum; named for crew's "pickle boat," it grew to 24.3 million U.S. players by 2025.
Pickleball in the United States
Pickleball in the United States: paddle sport founded 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington, by Pritchard, Bell, and McCallum; governed by USA Pickleball; 24.3 million players in 2025, the nation's fastest-growing sport.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert
Pierre-Hugues Herbert (P2H), born 1991 in Schiltigheim, French tennis player; with Nicolas Mahut completed the career Grand Slam in doubles, won ATP Finals 2019 and 2021, peaked at doubles No. 2, singles No. 36.
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.
Pinsetter
Pinsetter: the machine that resets bowling pins and returns the ball. Covers free-fall versus string pinsetters, Gottfried Schmidt's 1940s AMF machine, and USBC certification of string pin bowling effective August 1, 2023.
Polina Iatcenko
Polina Iatcenko, Russian tennis player born 2003 in Murmansk, based in Minsk. WTA 125 singles champion (Caldas da Rainha 2025), 2026 Mumbai doubles winner, 2026 US Open second round, career-high No.138.
POP tennis
POP tennis, formerly paddle tennis, is an 1898 American racquet sport on a 15.24 x 6.096 m court with a solid paddle, low-compression ball, one underarm serve, and tennis scoring, governed by the IPTA.
Prajnesh Gunneswaran
Prajnesh Gunneswaran (born 1989, Chennai) is an Indian left-handed tennis player, career-high No. 75 (April 2019), 2018 Asian Games singles bronze medallist, Challenger titlist at Anning and Bangalore, and 2019 Grand Slam main-draw player.
Prakash Padukone (ಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ ಪಡುಕೋಣೆ)
Prakash Padukone (ಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ ಪಡುಕೋಣೆ), Indian badminton legend; first Indian to win the All England (1980) and reach world No. 1; 1978 Commonwealth Games gold; founded PPBA in 1994, now runs the Padukone School of Badminton; father of Deepika Padukone.
Precision-aim and throwing sports
Precision-aim and throwing sports are sports in which a competitor projects an object toward a target, including bowling, darts, curling, lawn bowls, and the boules games.
Premier Badminton League
The Premier Badminton League (PBL), launched in 2013 as the Indian Badminton League, was a franchise-based team badminton league in India run by the Badminton Association of India and last played in 2020.
Premier League Darts
Premier League Darts, PDC annual tournament since 2005, also called BetMGM Premier League; eight invited players, 17 Thursday nights of nightly knockouts, top four reach O2 play-offs; Luke Littler the 2026 champion.
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 Bowlers Association
Professional Bowlers Association (PBA), the main international body for professional ten-pin bowling; runs the PBA Tour, Regional Tour, and PBA50 Tour with members from over 30 countries; 2026 Tour titled by Go Bowling, airing on The CW and CBS.
Professional Darts Corporation
The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) is the leading professional darts organization, formed in 1992 as the World Darts Council after a split from the British Darts Organisation. It runs a 128-player Tour Card circuit, rankings based on prize money, and the PDC World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace.
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.
Professional Putters Association
Professional Putters Association (PPA), founded circa 1959 by Putt-Putt creator Don Clayton, is the US pro league for competitive Putt-Putt miniature golf, with Pro and APA divisions, regional tours, national championships, and over $8 million in prize money awarded.
Professional Tennis Registry and USPTA
The Professional Tennis Registry and USPTA, rebranded in 2024 as the Racquet Sports Professionals Association, certify tennis-teaching professionals in the United States, with over 16,000 and 11,000 members respectively.
Professional Women's Bowling Association
Professional Women's Bowling Association (PWBA), the US women's pro ten-pin bowling tour founded 1960, folded after 2003, relaunched 2015 by USBC and BPAA; majors are the USBC Queens and U.S. Women's Open.
Pullela Gopichand
Pullela Gopichand, born 1973, is an Indian badminton chief national coach and 2001 All England champion, the second Indian winner after Prakash Padukone, who founded the Hyderabad academy that trained Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu.
Putt-Putt Fun Center
Putt-Putt Fun Center is the current brand of Putt-Putt, LLC, the miniature golf franchise founded in 1954 by Don Clayton in Fayetteville, North Carolina, known for copyrighted par-2 skill courses, the PPA, and family entertainment center franchising.
QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup
The QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup, also called the AMF World Cup, is an annual international tenpin bowling singles tournament first held in Dublin in 1965.