Tournaments
Who won the 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay?
Who is Jordan Spieth?
How many clubs can you carry on a course at once?
What is fourteen?
What is Arnold Palmer's nickname?
What is The King?
In 2019, how many rules of golf will there be?
What is 24 rules?
This ELT member studied Japanese for 4 years.
Who is Emily von Doehren?
Who won the 2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open?
Who is Laura Davies?
Another name for a hole-in-one.
What is an ace?
This golfer shot his first hole-in-one at the age of eight.
Who is Tiger Woods?
How many minutes does a player have to look for their lost ball before it is deemed to be lost?
What is five minutes?
This ELT member's childhood dream was to be a bobsledder. They have ridden down four bobsled tracks around the world.
Who is Rand Jerris?
What golf course has hosted the most U.S. Opens?
What is Oakmont Country Club?
If you walked all eighteen holes instead of riding in a golf cart, you would walk approximately how many miles?
What is four miles?
This Zimbabwean professional golfer has won three major championships in his career.
Who is Nick Price?
What is the penalty for bending, breaking or hacking anything growing or fixed to improve your lie, stance or area of intended swing?
What is a loss of hole in Match Play or a two-shot penalty in Stroke Play?
This ELT member once won a golf event even though they called a 1-shot penalty on themselves… only to learn years later that they got the ruling wrong (it was a 2-shot penalty) and shouldn’t have won the tournament. They never returned the trophy but did tell their coach many years later.
Who is Mike Davis?
Where was the first U.S. Open held?
What is Newport Country Club?
Considered to be the rarest event in golf and is achieved upon managing four under par, which is often scoring a hole in one at a par five. Scoring two on a par six would also count but has never been done.
What is a Condor?
The term “birdie” comes from this American golfer. While playing a round in 1899, he played what he described as a “bird of a shot”, which became “birdie” over time.
Who is Ab Smith?
In stroke play, by mistake, a player plays a fellow-competitor's ball from within a bunker and it comes to rest in the same bunker. At this point, both players become aware of the situation. Then, the fellow-competitor plays his ball from the new position onto the putting green. What is the ruling for each of them?
What is a two stroke penalty?
This ELT member's father’s first 9-hole round of golf was with Arnold Palmer’s father and Bobby Locke.
Who is Mike Butz?
What organization conducted the first U.S. Women's Open?
What is the Women's Professional Golfers Association?
This golf course has the world’s biggest bunker. (HINT: It is in New Jersey)
What is Pine Valley Golf Course?
This Scottish immigrant became the first golfer to win four U.S. Opens. He is still the only man to win three consecutive titles.
Who is Willie Anderson?
In match play, a player strikes his ball from a bunker and it comes to rest against the flagstick. The ball is not holed. Without the player's authority, an opponent or fellow-competitor moves the flagstick and causes the ball to move away from the hole. What is the ruling?
What is a one stroke penalty for the opponent?
Where did Steve first learn to hit a golf ball?
What is the elementary school baseball field?