Bottom Lines

•MAJORS: Youth may be in vogue on the PGA Tour, but not on the LPGA. All four women's majors were won by golfers 35 or older.

•WINGED FOOT: It gave us a great PGA. More important, it gave us the hacker's salvation, the mulligan, named after David Mulligan, a Winged Foot member.

•SNOW JOB: The three metropolitan areas with the most golfers per capita: Minneapolis-St. Paul, Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo and Milwaukee.

•ERNIE ELS: "The state of the courses in Europe is part of the reason why Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood are moving to the States next year."

•BLUE MONSTER: Ray Floyd's touch-up didn't come cheap. It costs $220, on a weekend in season, to experience Raymundo's handiwork.

•HANDICAPS: Fewer than 2% of women golfers in the U.S. have a single-digit handicap.

•HALE IRWIN: On how Winged Foot affected the players in the '74 U.S. Open: "They were run over by a truck after the first round. That was the mother of all golf courses."