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...

lol

been done!!

ok, special question for mysti.

Can anyone guess the yardage of Royal St George's from the Ladies tees?

5210

give me a course that has a flipping ladies tee will ya!

Pete Seegar @28th May

keep up doon.

Doon the Water wrote:Pretty he/she wrote and sang it, but could be wrong!

I thought you were referring to an attractive transexual

There are ladies' tees at Augusta, and they are made very welcome. Just not allowed to be members.

George1507 wrote:There are ladies' tees at Augusta, and they are made very welcome. Just not allowed to be members.

Since when? They're not allowed play there hence no tees I thought...

Haha lol

here is a question,

how many of mysti's 9500+ posts include the phrases:

'haha'
'lol'
and / or
'[i] reakon'

to the nearest 100 will do

i'll go for 8200

mysti- have you ever thought of branching out and trying an LMAO, LMFAO or ROFL?

Nah I can't spell them dude

As long as he stops twitter trolling our Olympic hero's I don’t care how many lol's mysti uses.


My guess would be 9000 though.

Ok out of macs 4273 posts how many are insults or negativity.

my guess 4273.

And he has the cheek to say i would troll LOL

incontinentia wrote:

George1507 wrote:There are ladies' tees at Augusta, and they are made very welcome. Just not allowed to be members.

Since when? They're not allowed play there hence no tees I thought...

Women are most assuredly allowed to play at Augusta. I know two women who have played there, and made most welcome.

George

Who were these lucky people and how did they get an invite?

George1507 wrote:

incontinentia wrote:

George1507 wrote:There are ladies' tees at Augusta, and they are made very welcome. Just not allowed to be members.

Since when? They're not allowed play there hence no tees I thought...

Women are most assuredly allowed to play at Augusta. I know two women who have played there, and made most welcome.

I see, they are allowed to play as the guest of a member. Thanks for that George. There are no ladies' tees though according to numerous google search results, so they must have to play off the men's.

Correct same as st georges.

They were guests of members. One works for Microsoft, the other for IBM, guests of Bill Gates and Sam Palmisano.

A mate of mine was in the ballot to get in- 1 in 10 media staff get a chance of playing the course. He didnt get lucky!

Same as Muirfield, Ladies most welcome.
[Just don't expect a changing room or a toilet.]

Doon the Water wrote:Same as Muirfield, Ladies most welcome.
[Just don't expect a changing room or a toilet.]

Not true. There are changing rooms allocated for ladies.

Women can play there, just not become members.

They must have put one in since 15 years ago then George.

I haven't been there Doon, but I was told that there are about half a dozen changing rooms that are just allocated on the basis of who will be there that day. These rooms may be named after flowers and shrubs - or maybe after players - but they are named. So "Howdy, Mrs Doon, you'll be changing in the pulsatilla room".*

*(names have been changed to protect the innocent.)

Doon the Water wrote:Same as Muirfield, Ladies most welcome.
[Just don't expect a changing room or a toilet.]

also, there are ladies tees at muirfield

I think they altered Muirfield after the Curtis Cup.

When my daughter was playing national championships the ladies used to have a good laugh when THE MEN surendered their changing rooms for the length of the tournament. The 10 urinals and two wc's were not a big plus.

Been a while since we had a "who am I" quiz.

I have pro wins over 5 decades and 4 continents.
I've won on the European and Challenge Tours.
I've also won on the main senior tours in both Europe and the USA.

Bjorn

oh you included seniors. I will give it a better stab.

bernard langer

mystiroakey wrote:oh you included seniors. I will give it a better stab.

bernard langer

Looking at it, he probably does fit those criteria, but not the guy I was thinking of! (edit: just realised Langer never won on the Challenge Tour anyway!)

A more specific clue - 80% of my Champions Tour wins were over the same runner-up

Des Smyth?

...just won again the other week and he says he hopes to win in his 60s as well (59 at the moment).

princedracula wrote:Des Smyth?

...just won again the other week and he says he hopes to win in his 60s as well (59 at the moment).

I think Des has only won on three continents. This guy's wins have been in Europe, Africa, N America and Central America...


Off to the supermarket, will see if anyone's got it when I return

Swampy?

Or perhaps the faux Irishman??

Roger Chapman?

Neither Chapman nor McNulty... still trying to work out who Swampy refers to!

And another clue, of sorts: he hasn't won anything classed as a "senior major" by any tour... all his senior wins were just regular(ish) events on the tour in question.

So to recap:

- I have won pro tournaments in five different decades.
- I have won pro tournaments on four different continents: Africa, Europe, N America, Central America.
- I won on both the European Tour and Challenge Tour.
- I have won on both the Champions Tour and the European Seniors Tour, but
- I have never won a senior major. And finally,
- Of my Champions Tour wins, 80% saw me beat the same guy into second place.

In that case it wasn't Graham Swampy Marsh, but could it just be the Bland fellow?

Sam Torrance?

kwinigolfer wrote:In that case it wasn't Graham Swampy Marsh, but could it just be the Bland fellow?

Ah of course....


And there we have it too, John not-so Bland of SA is the answer!

Won multiple times in SA between the early 70s and early 90s, and picked up two ET wins in the mid 80s and a Challenge Tour win just after it started, in 1991. Won on his first Euro Senior start in 1995, just after he turned 50, then went to the US and won once before the year was out and another 4 times in 1996, where weirdly four of the five wins saw Jim Colbert take runner-up honours. Then after he lost his Champions Tour place by virtue of not being famous enough, he came back to Europe and won twice more, in 2009 and 2010!

Ned,
I think his Champions Tour career would have been even more propitious but his wife became ill and he pretty much cut short his Champo career.

Runner up to Swampy in a US Senior Open.

The South Africans/Zimbabweans have done rather well on the Champions Tour, Hobday, Watson, Frosty and Price as well, not to mention Player an Harold the Horse Henning. Probably some others also.

Much better than most Aussies and Europeans.

Who am I?
-By looking at the leaderboard I could never tell whether I was over or under par.
-My dad played football (professionally) for Portsmouth - but even kwini probably never heard of him. He later became a drug dealer.
-Despite these (seemingly) unfortunate circumstances, I have done quite well, both on and off the golf course.

pedro wrote:Who am I? -By looking at the leaderboard I could never tell whether I was over or under par.

So must be someone colour blind

pedro wrote: -My dad played football (professionally) for Portsmouth - but even kwini probably never heard of him. He later became a drug dealer.

So not Pompey, then. Not sure about the drugs though.

pedro wrote: -Despite these (seemingly) unfortunate circumstances, I have done quite well, both on and off the golf course.

I'm thinking course design.

I'm going Jack Nicklaus

You're never wrong....

Nicklaus' dad played (American) football in Portsmouth, Ohio. He later became a pharmacist.

Colour blind and course design is correct as well. (Actually the statement about being over or under par is in his own words.)

Brilliant!
I couldn't get further than Peter Marinello's son being strung out on heroin . . . . .

Thank you. I'd heard the story about JN being colour blind and guessed re the course design bit. The drugs bit fooled me, and I was thinking along the lines of Kwini. I'll try and think of something obscure to ask.

OK. It's a bit of a tortured way to seek an obscure answer and nowhere near as good as Pedro's question, but what didn't happen from three minutes to three o'clock until two minutes past three?

I guess it's a golf related question, so.... Ian Poulter didn't tweet?