Golf Quiz[z]

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I'll start.

Name the only golfer in the world who has won professional tournaments in six decades?

oldparwin, not mansell but a very good guess and getting very warm.

Mac,
I'm thinking this was Columbia related?

Not the Juan Pablo Montoya sort but yes spot on with Columbia.

I'll leave that as another clue . . . . .

Colombia or Columbia?

Sorry Mac, but I had to use the Google' leather wedge'

I think it is Nicolas Prost........ but I didn't realise that he was such a good golfer.

Good one mac.

You got it Yads.

Nice one

Next!

Wow... wouldn't have got that in another 100 years...

Here you are guys - me thinks that this might be a bit less testing than Mac's toughie.

What links Phantom, the first (or one of the first) GB Air fatality, Ghost, and a golf course in Wales?

Rolls

Spot on Doon,

Rolls of Monmouth, a hiiden gem well worth visit.

One of my daughters favourites.

Without looking up

Name three English golf courses beginning with 'Y'

Doon the Water wrote:Without looking up

Name three English golf courses beginning with 'Y'

Yelverton
Yoevil
York

Well done Mav.

I only knew that answer because I'd played them however don't think I could name another one.

There isn't!!!!

Wow, didn't know that, so I've actually played the only 3 courses beginning with Y in the country.

Ok here goes

Who are the players to have won two open championships on St Andrews Old course since the open switched from 36 to 72 holes?

Tiger Woods & Jack Nicklaus

Setup

They are correct but not the complete list.

As if it needed to be said but anyway, forgot to say dont use google.

JH Taylor
James Braid

That should complete your list

mav

I hope that was not googled. If not you have great golfing knowledge, I would not have known that.

Not googled at all Mac.

Good knowledge by way of a good memory

If you ever watch Gofling World on sky the last part of the show is about magical moments from events passed and it was on there a few months back about winners at St Andrews.

They are currently tracking the progress of Faldo's open wins on the series.

Well mav it seems it is your turn to set the question. Lets have it.

Ok Mac i'll indulge with a nice simple one:

Who am I:

My mother is the daughter of a Finnish carpenter
I am an inductee into the World Golf Hall of fame

Anneka?

Simple!

Ok if you say so. If davie is wrong I have no idea, not even sure I could name many hall of famers other than the obvious ones.

Totally wild guess on my part! I have no idea really

OK my guess is wrong. I now know the correct answer but cheated to get it so I'll let someone else have a stab

Davie thats just plain cheating, using the google leather wedge.

Ok couple more clues

I have 30 top 10 finishes in majors
I have been BBC oversees sports personality of the year twice
I'm possibly the best driver of the ball in PGA tour history (debateable but i'd agree with this one)

Greg Norman? Only because he looks viking like and is a good driver of the golf ball.

Can only be Jack.

F1F we have a winner, told you it wasn't hard.

Did his grandparent make soup? Then it could be Shark Finn soup

The biggest giveaway fact i could have mentioned about Norman would've been

I began playing golf at 16, somewhat late for a world-class player, and within a year was playing to a scratch handicap.

Or another interesting one

In September 2010, The Stripe Group, which I co-own purchased the Valderrama Golf Club, in Sotogrande, Spain

Have you read Norman's book Mav?
It's a great story. He only started playing golf because he nearly killed himself surfing and decided to find something safer to do!

Ok.Must be my turn by now.

Who made the most appearances on the TV series Shells Wonderful world of Golf?

No Googling!

Faldo and Price seem to be on it all the time!

Faldo?

No.He only appeared twice. Once against Lehman in Barbados somewhere and once when the series came back after a 24 year gap in 1994 against Greg Norman at the old course at Sunningdale. Seem to remember he lost both! Not sure on Price, but it's not him.

I must keep watching the same damn episodes!!

Only other guys than are on it a lot are Player, Norman and Mickelson

Player would be the sensible guess from those lot.
If that's not right i'll let someone else try!

Nope.None of those. The series started in 1962 and ran continiously until 1970. It then had a break til 1994 and ran again until 2003.

Haven't read Normans books whats it called i'll hunt it out as i'm a massive Norman fan.

Shells Wonderful World of golf. Nicklaus and Palmer been on it a hell of a lot.

what about Hogan?

Not Nicklaus or Palmer. Nicklaus has appeared 8 times and Palmer 5.

Mav, it's called The Way of the Shark

Tricky question.

Couples??

Cheers MPB. Of to Amazon as we speak.

Couples is a good shout what about Ray Floyd or Isao Aoki