Three down and one to go as the final men’s Major of 2017 is upon us, test your golf knowledge with some PGA Championship questions.
1. Who was the last golfer to finish in the top 10 in all four Majors in the same calendar year?
2. Only one Asian golfer has won a men’s Major – the 2009 PGA Championship. Name him.
3. Six South Africans competed at the 2016 PGA Championship and five of them made the cut. Name the golfer who missed the cut.
4. Which South African scored a hole-in-one at the 2013 PGA Championship at Oak Hill CC? It came on the par-three 11th in a final-round 75. Still, he finished 10 over par.
5. Who is the last left-hander to win the PGA Championship?
6. Which subsequent Major champion (ie he has since won a Major) was disqualified from the 2007 PGA Championship for signing an incorrect scorecard?
7. What is meant when it is said that Australia’s Greg Norman won the 1986 ‘Saturday Slam’?
8.Which Italian golfer did John Daly defeat in a playoff to win the 1995 Open Championship?
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ANSWERS:
1. Jordan Spieth, in 2015. He won The Masters and US Open, finished second at The PGA Championship and in a tie for fourth at The Open.
2.YE Yang, the Korean who came from behind to beat Tiger Woods.
3. Brandon Stone. (Branden Grace, Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Ernie Els and George Coetzee all made the cut.)
4. Tim Clark. After opening rounds of 69 and 71 he posted two 75s, including the hole-in-one.
5. Phil Mickelson won the second of his five Major titles at the 2005 PGA Championship.
6. Spain’s Sergio Garcia, after signing for a 73 instead of a 74 at Southern Hills.
7. Greg Norman led or was tied for the lead in each of that year’s four Majors after three rounds. His only victory of the four, however, came at The Open Championship.
8. Costantino Rocca.
