Sixteen golf names. No teams — flags, colleges and majors.
Golf has no teams, so the board is built from what a golfer carries from week to week: the flag beside the name on a leaderboard, the college they played for before turning professional, the decade they were born in and their record in the majors. Win totals on the PGA Tour and the European Tour sit beside those, and surnames often enough to keep a reader honest.
Only in what ties a group together. Every tile is a golfer, never a word like birdie or bogey; the game’s own language appears in the categories instead — a major, a tour, a college team. So a board asks who won the PGA Championship rather than what an albatross is.
The four men’s majors: the Masters, the U.S. Open, the Open Championship and the PGA Championship. A group can be the winners of one of them, golfers who each won a major in the same decade, or golfers who won two or more.
The men’s record: the four majors, the PGA Tour and the European Tour, now the DP World Tour, whose win lists count the majors and the events the two tours share. A golfer who has since moved to LIV keeps every win and major earned before. The women’s game has majors of its own and is not mixed into this board.
Ten more: cricket, the NFL, the AFL, soccer, college basketball, MLB, the NHL, the NBA, college football and the WNBA.
