The PGA media guide books have been notoriously sloppy. I got a 1994 copy that I used a yellow highlighter to mark ovver 30 mistatkes in just the playoff section.

There once was a day I could tell you exact playoff records for over 50 golfers off the top of my head. It came in handy when the 1987 guide book omitted JC Snead’s record(but had Sam still in it) and as a result CBS ended up with egg on its face when JC went to a playoff at Westchester with them proclaiming he’d never been in a playoff.(Snead is 3-1 lifetime on the PGA including Westchester.)

A mid 2000’s edition wasn’t much better when I glanced through one without buying it in 2004 or 2005.

Records have morphed over the years. Like the record George Archer set for fewest putts in 72 holes. The PGA upped the record from 94 to 95 sometime in the mid 90’s and insist that is the correct total though old newspaper reports and guide books say it ain’t so.

…as much as I love having a hard copy of things like this to carry around, this one isn’t really a huge loss. I don’t carry it in my bag like a rule book – don’t take it with me in the car. I mostly use it for preparation or trivial interest – and I can do that from a disk or onine.