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?

One to ponder for you a fairly simple one. A two parter

Part one: in 1986 which golfer set the record for number of birdies in oneround at the masters with a total number of 10?

Part 2: at the 2009 masters in round 2 who broke this record with 11 birdies?

Ned that's where I was going wrong with my answer initially it wasn't until I googled it and the penny dropped! Still was quite impressed glad I looked as was not aware his record was what it was

Maverick wrote:Ned that's where I was going wrong with my answer initially it wasn't until I googled it and the penny dropped! Still was quite impressed glad I looked as was not aware his record was what it was

Neither was I til I chanced on it the other day! Thought it would make a good question.


Part 2 is Anthony Kim... can't remember part 1 though...

jack nicklaus won that major- but i cant see him making 10 birdies at that age,

Kim is correct... But no not Jack

Nick Price?

Not nick price

Ned - is the answer to your question Jeff Maggert?

Re: the Columbian question, I am assuming there is somewhere in the states that is called Columbia?

Mav - totally random guess, is part one Dan Forsman??!

Not Dan Forsman no!

Keep trying for part 1 guys,

Here's a couple of clues:

Clue 1: he has won a major (just the one)
Clue 2: don't get this mans name mixed up with a wrestler

I think that Kwini is correct in that Nick Price got 10 birdies in round 3.
I know that Wiki... is not definitive but
"Price set a single-round record at Augusta with ten birdies in round 3."

Nick Price is a red herring because he did have 10 birdies in his 63 in the 3rd round that year but that equalled the number of birdies made the previous day by someone else who was that?

The only player that had a decent(ish) round on the 2nd day and has won 1 major is John Mahaffey. Never heard of any wrestler of that name, though.

boyhyde wrote:Ned - is the answer to your question Jeff Maggert?

Re: the Columbian question, I am assuming there is somewhere in the states that is called Columbia?

Mav - totally random guess, is part one Dan Forsman??!

Yep, Jeff Maggert was born in Columbia, Missouri


Mav's one has me totally stumped!

The reason this one is stumping everyone is they are assuming 10 birdies = a low round, when you factor in the bogies he had as well you may figure out who it was...

Lanny Wadkins?

arr the trick question- good one.

but are you sure that someone got 10 before nick price- cant find this anywhere?

Most Birdies, One Round
11 - Anthony Kim, 2009, second round
10 - Nick Price, 1986, third round

From golf.com

& from sporting life

Most birdies in a round: 10 Nick Price 1986



Surely if Nick Price was just equalling someone's 10 birdies both names would be there ?

Setup totally agree and thats what baffled me, when I googled the answer I get the same thing, the question I had was taken froma trivia book mrs Mav got me

They have a nice section about birdie and eagle records on the ET website.

Brilliant, just looked at the book Mrs Mav got me, and fine print on the back,"not all the facts printed in this book are 100% accurately researched at time of printing" so lets scratch the question and take Nick Price as the answer. I'm also drafting an email to the company that created it.

Maverick wrote:Brilliant, just looked at the book Mrs Mav got me, and fine print on the back,"not all the facts printed in this book are 100% accurately researched at time of printing" so lets scratch the question and take Nick Price as the answer. I'm also drafting an email to the company that created it.

Mav, why dont you ask JPX to do that for you, it would make his day .........

Mav,
Sounds like a Conservative / Republican manifesto . . . . .

Good call diggers, shame I've already hit the send button!

kwini, if i were a political man id agree, looking forward to the response that once is received will be burnt with this pointless book she bought at bluewater

Out of interest, who did the book think it should be?

kwinigolfer wrote:Mav,
Sounds like a Conservative / Republican manifesto . . . . .

The sad thing is they do not even have the sense to question the "facts" never mind admit they might not be 100% accurate.

NedB-H wrote:Out of interest, who did the book think it should be?

The ridiculous answer in the book and one I in all honesty should have thought to question as soon as I saw it considering when he turned pro but never gave much thought was Shaun Micheel, it's not till I sat down looked again and realised what a pile of crap.

Went through the book and found some other Gems such as:

How many majors did Jack Nicklaus win - 16!!! No he won 18 everyone knows that
Who did Nick Faldo beat in a playoff to win the US Master in 1990 - Scott Hoch!! No that was 1989 in 90 he beat Floyd
and my personal favourite, Which major did Lee Trevino never win - the Open nearly died when I saw that we all know it's the masters, he certainly won the open and destroyed Jacklins career in the process

anyway...

I wrote an email to the company in quetion explaining what a kumquat I was made to look like amongst knowledgeable golfers on a forum I post on and felt aggrieved that they were making money from such tripe and palming it off as golfing trivia. Noted on there the above errors and many more that were glaring when you sat and read it properly and not skimming it at a glance as I did initially.

I just got the following response and I think sums them up perfectly for the Shysters that they clearly are.

Thankyou kindly for choosing to provide us with feedback with regards to our golfing trivia 2011 publication. As you will be aware as an owner of the publication that the period of trivia covered spans over 50years; It would be near on impossible for us to accurately check every detail and make it to print deadlines in time for distribution.

If either yourself or te fellow posters to your forum feel you have been made to look foolish we can take no responsibility for this other than to say it may have been an idea for you to check your facts with sites such as google or Wikipedia first. At this stage no action will be take to recall the books due to the high volume of sales and popularity of our product. We will also not be taking your grievence any further as we feel by responding directly to you we have met our requirements as the vendor of the product.

I nearly collapsed reading that....... Impossible to check facts, thats what most publisher pay researchers for!
Telling me to check my facts against google or wikipedia, thats openly acknowledging they know they've printed crap but trying to blame me for it!
They won't take it off sale so are happy to sell a pack of lies to the unwitting public and reap the fiscal rewards.
They've fulfilled their criteria for responding...

I don't usually condone swearing but what a bunch of merchant bankers...

Promptly responded and sent into watchdog....

That's an amazing reply from the publishers!

Is the book for sale on Amazon or similar? Could be worth while some "reviews" of their product

ermm it makes you wonder doesnt it. watchdog it. even my dog knows nicklaus had 18 majors

No mate i've scoured the t'internet for it. She bought it in a little shop at bluewater that sells calenders and the little trivia book things i'm going there tomorrow demand they remove from sales..

Clearly a small company trying to make a buck the repsonse lierally made my jaw drop

What did Steve Webster get in 2010 that no other pro on the European tour managed?

Doon the Water wrote:What did Steve Webster get in 2010 that no other pro on the European tour managed?

Albatross?

Well done Pedro

I was born in america

I won 3 major championships- 2 in USA ,1 in the UK, yet i never played the british open.

my best finish in the us maters was tied for 24th

Dr Cary Middlecroft.

nope not him -

Frank Stranahan

ok clue time

2 of my major wins were US opens

Bobby Jones.

I thought he played in The Open?

Not Jones, won several US Opens and 3 Open Championships.
Must be a catch here, most likely associated with the "UK" . . . . .
Or maybe won more than 3 Majors?

kwinis getting there- second line is the real clue, but dont go down the amatuer route(and no he only won 3 major championships)

I think Doon is on the right lines, guessing they won the Amateur Championship one year.

Lawson Little

Lawson Little won 1 us open and 4 amatuer titles- you making some good stabs- but ultimately being led down the wrong path

I though about walter travis but turns out he was born in australia, and only won the britsh amateur.

mystiroakey

I take it you have not made an error in calling the open championship the british open. so either there has never been a british open, so no one can have played in it, or person did not play in an event that did exist called the british open.

Still cant get the answer.

he never played in the open championship or the british open which is the same thing as we know, but your thinking out of the box- which is required here

ok its a toughie lol.

next clues- maybe could help if you read between the lines

my best sporting decade was during the 1930's

yet my best golfing acheivements were in 1946,1951 and 1955

Babe Zaharias

no but your getting warm

Ellsworth Vines