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 Post subject: PGA Golf recap
PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:02 pm 
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As always, answers are below. Question wording is pretty close to verbatim, as I finally figured out I can type everything into Google Docs a lot faster than I can write

1. The PGA Championship is usually played during this month:
2. The World Golf Hall of Fame voted in ______ in 2004:
3. What PGA tournament was first played in 1899?
4. In 1975, which golfer was seriously injured when lightning struck him?
5. What is golfer Tiger Woods' given name?

6. The Arnold Palmer Award is given every year to the PGA's ______:
7. Which golfer had his life story made into a movie starring Glenn Ford?
8. The Masters has never been won by a/an:
9. Which golfer spent a total of 331 weeks at the top of the World Golf Rankings?
10. Legendary golfer Paul Runyan was known by this nickname:

11. This year's US Open will be played at Chambers Bay in:
12. What golfer-turned-announcer surprised everyone by winning the 1994 Pebble Beach National Pro-Am?
13. What is Bubba Watson's real first name?
14. This New York course, in 1980, was the site of Jack Nicklaus' fifth PGA Championship win:
15. After years of coming close, he finally won his first Masters in 2004:

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1. August
2. Tom Kite (the only golfer among the five choices)
3. Western Open
4. Lee Trevino
5. Eldrick

6. Leading money winner
7. Ben Hogan ("Follow the Sun" being the movie)
8. Amateur (the only other choices I can remember were German and Augusta native)
9. Greg Norman
10. Little Poison

11. Washington
12. Johnny Miller
13. Gerry (wrong were Barry, Larry, Perry, and Terry)
14. Oak Hill
15. Phil Mickelson

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 Post subject: Re: PGA Golf recap
PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 8:58 pm 
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Another choice for #8 was "player named Wood", note the singular.

This was the question I bled points on, started to enter #2 for German on all boxes when I remember Barnyard Langer won twice. So I had to look back up and rescan the answers. With only 1 box it would have been an easy 1k. Augusta Native was a nice touch, Larry Mize is from there.

This was an extremely well-written game, pretty damn tough too. The score put up by Walsh's was way higher than I expected to see from another location. Although they did have an advantage on perhaps the toughest question regarding the Western Open starting in 1899 as it's in Chicago. Also that's where Lee Trevino was struck by lightning. Well done to them.

Other very tough questions were #'s 6,9,12, and 14.


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 Post subject: Re: PGA Golf recap
PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 10:41 pm 
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-BO- wrote:
Another choice for #8 was "player named Wood", note the singular.

This was the question I bled points on, started to enter #2 for German on all boxes when I remember Barnyard Langer won twice. So I had to look back up and rescan the answers. With only 1 box it would have been an easy 1k. Augusta Native was a nice touch, Larry Mize is from there.

This was an extremely well-written game, pretty damn tough too. The score put up by Walsh's was way higher than I expected to see from another location. Although they did have an advantage on perhaps the toughest question regarding the Western Open starting in 1899 as it's in Chicago. Also that's where Lee Trevino was struck by lightning. Well done to them.

Other very tough questions were #'s 6,9,12, and 14.

I feel less bad about failing to break 8000 now, but if this had been a Wipeout game, I might not have reached 5000. Lots of reliance on clues to get through this one :?

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