Trivia

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I go first (easy one)...

Name 3 golfers who finished in the top 3 in the 2011 Order of Merit on more than one tour...

Tom Watson came pretty close beating that record a few years ago!

Mac,
Had to look it up. Never heard of the guy...

pedro wrote:Had to look it up. Never heard of the guy...

...same here... Among other things, I read that he was the first chairman of British PGA and arguably the inventor of the 'dogleg' hole design. You learn something everyday...

Another question for you all :

Since 2000, two players have won multiple times on the PGA Tour that season before going on to win the Masters. Tiger Woods did it twice. Who is the other player? ??

Mike Weir eh!

Yes, correct Kwini.

pedro wrote:Carl Pettersson, Peter Hanson, Klas Eriksson, Lotta Wahlin.

I only considered Euro and US major tours (excl. senior tours, i.e. 6 tours in total) - and only in "modern times". To my knowledge no other European country has done that (incl. UK), but please let me know if I'm wrong as there are no official stats for that.

Just going back a bit to pedro's question a couple of days ago...
Didn't know initially what tornament wins he had in mind and said UK.... What I had in mind there was the week last year when Tom Lewis (ENG) won the Portugese Open. Same week Sam Little (ENG) won in Rome on the CT, Doug McGuigan (SCO) won the Zambian Open on the Sunshine tour and Carl Mason (ENG) had a win on the European Senior Tour.

But anyway, extending a bit pedro's rules and including also the seniors and the other official tours (ladies and gents)...

Name the European country who had 5 wins on the same week! ...and you should get extra brownie points for each of the winners you can name!

Pd, does a Major win count as a same-week win on multiple tours?

Nice try pedro, but no...

Clue #1: you don't need to look too far in the past, it happened within the last year...

Does that include March 2011?

kwinigolfer wrote:Does that include March 2011?

No, but if you found something worthy there's no problem

This one died here quietly, so here's the answer...

Happened only 6 month ago... 5 UK winners:

M. Hoey (European Tour)
P. Casey (Korean Tour)
M. Baldwin (Challenge Tour)
F. Johnson (Ladies ET)
M. Mouland (Senior ET)

Interestingly enough, 3 of the other 4 official tournaments that week have been won by Koreans (or quasi-Koreans), but obviously not in Korea: Bae Sang-Moon in Japan, Kevin Na on the PGAT and Danny Lee on NWT...

Not a trivia question, too trivial for that, but Charles Howell played Round 2 without a bogey (you all know that), the first time in 110 Major Championship rounds he has done such a thing.
The record (since 2001 anyway) is held by KJ Choi at 136, with Poulter second at 124 and Roary Sabbatini also at 110!

I am pretty surprised that poultry has had that record- quite a par type golfer.

great round by Howell mind- he had 17 pars and an eagle. clean round

This week Harrington has had only one bogey on a par5 (so far). Must be the first time this year?

If Louis wins today he has two majors before his 30th birthday. Anyone fancy naming the other 4 players to do that since 1980?

Woods, Els, Daly and someone else?

Payne Stuart?

Seve?

Lyle?

Woods, Els, Daly, Seve it is. Counting Seve as his second was the '80 Masters.

Lyle turned 30 2 months before his Masters. Stewart was 32 before his first.

What bit of golf equipment costs the same in 2012 as it did in 1952?

A sixpence as a ball marker?

Doon the Water wrote:What bit of golf equipment costs the same in 2012 as it did in 1952?

A 10p as a ball marker?

a tee.

Sorry I posted the answer earlier but for some reason it did not appear.
Some very clever answers but I am sure that a sixpence is worth a lot more than 2.5p with inflation.

Mac just to let you know 10p had not been invented until 1972[?]

Just a wee bit more specific please SDTM as plastic was expensive in 1952.

A sand tee? Builders' yards might dispute though.

You guys are too clever!

A wooden tee.

An easy one to follow

What tournament has been won by

Sergio Garcia
Jose Olazabal
Ken Ferrie
David Howell

Boys Amateur??

British Boys.........Well done Kwinni.

Not questions, but a couple of trivia notes...:

- In Carl Pettersson's five Tour wins there has never been a non-American runner-up. He's beaten Chad Campbell, Z Johnson and Wetterich (tied), McCarron, D Wilson and Johnson again

- If he's still being thought of as Swedish, Pettersson makes it 4 European wins on tour this year, to 13 American wins. But halfway through April, there still hasn't been a single International win. This is the first time since 2002 that there hasn't been an International win by the end of January, the first time since Vijay's Masters in 2000 that they haven't chalked one up by the first major of the year, and the first time since 1989 that we've got this far without one. That year the first Baker-Finch, at Colonial at the end of May.

I just noticed a strange stat regarding a pro golfer of relatively recent history (1970's to 1990's primarily) who has accumulated 14 top 31's or better (including a handful of Top Tens) in one Major, but nothing better than 31st in any of the other.

Who is that pro golfer?

Hmm... surely more likely to be a European, and the Open, than anything else. I'd guess Torrance or James? Neither of those had great US records as I remember.

Yup, Torrance or James!

Mark James - incredible that he only played about eight US Majors.

Good win today though . . . .

Who are the only British team to beat Barcelona home and away in a European competition?

As you say British, I guess you don't mean English. From where you come from, I am guessing Scottish. After that, I'm struggling. Aberdeen?

Sorry but you are wrong I'm never wrong.

Dare I guess Hibs?

I thought you may say that Kwinni, after I read Eddie Turnbulls Autobiography, but no.

I'm going out on a limb and saying Dundee united!

Well done Fader.
Most folk forget they had a pretty decent team, late 70's if I remember correctly.

Sure I saw something about them and their record against the european heavy weights in the late 70's up to about 82! Some other pretty big scalps to. Then the Rangers/Celtic monopoly really took hold and now since the administration its even more one way traffic for the SPL.

New Question for you all:

Who holds the record for the largest winning margin on the European Tour ?

& in what event did he do it ?

was it sergio in his own event last year?

i take it back.... is it Tiger Woods at the US open if you agree that its a co sanctioned event??

Correct second time.

Tiger’s mind blowing 15 shot victory at Pebble Beach in 2000.

Only two players have more European tour wins than tiger, who are they?

Monty and Lee Westwood

No tiger has 7 more than monty and 17 more than westwood.