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Thursday, Aug. 12
PGA Championship trivia quiz

Associated Press

Forward Tees (1 point each)
1. What is the name of the PGA Championship trophy?

2. Which two players have won the most PGAs?

3. Who are the only two players to win every major but the PGA?

4. Ten of the last 11 PGA champions had never won a major. Who is the exception?

5. Ben Hogan won the Masters, U.S. Open and British Open in 1953. How did he fare at the PGA?

6. Who was the last left-handed player to lead a PGA Championship after 54 holes?

Middle Tees (3 points each)
7. Give the age and name of the oldest player to win the PGA.

8. In what year did the PGA change from match play to stroke play, and who won the first year of stroke play?

9. Who are the only brothers to win the PGA?

10. Who was the last man to successfully defend his PGA Championship?

11. Who holds the record for the largest margin of victory?

12. Who was the last wire-to-wire winner at the PGA?

Championship Tees (5 points each)
13. Name the course on which the first PGA Championship was played in 1916.

14. Who holds the PGA Championship record for the greatest comeback?

15. The PGA Championship was the first major to go to a sudden-death playoff. Name the year, the winner and whom he beat.

16. Before Nick Price in 1994, who was the last man to win the British Open and the PGA in the same year?

17. What was unique about the way Raymond Floyd won his two PGA Championships?

18. The last time the PGA was won by a score over par was in 1972. Name the winner and the course.

19th hole (10-point bonus)
Two of Jack Nicklaus' greatest benchmarks in major championships occurred by winning the PGA in 1971 and 1973. What were they?

Answers
1. The Wannamaker Trophy.
2. Walter Hagen and Jack Nicklaus each won five times.
3. Tom Watson and Arnold Palmer.
4. Nick Price, who won his second PGA and third major at Southern Hills in 1994. Price's first major was the 1992 PGA at Bellerive.
5. Hogan did not play the PGA Championship because the British Open was played at the same time.
6. Russ Cochran.

7. Julius Boros was 48 when he won in 1968.
8. Dow Finsterwald won the first stroke-play championship in 1958.
9. Lionel Hebert (1957) and Jay Hebert (1960).
10. Denny Shute, 1936-37.
11. Jack Nicklaus won by seven strokes in 1980.
12. Hal Sutton, who beat Jack Nicklaus by one stroke in 1983.

13. Siwanoy Country Club in Bronxville, N.Y.
14. John Mahaffey in 1978. He trailed Tom Watson by seven strokes in the final round, then beat Watson and Jerry Pate on the second hole of a playoff.
15. Lanny Wadkins beat Gene Littler on the third extra hole in 1977.
16. Walter Hagen in 1924.
17. He won both of them wire-to-wire, in 1969 and 1982.
18. Gary Player had a 1-over 281 at Oakland Hills.

Bonus: Nicklaus' win in 1971 made him the only player to win the career grand slam twice. His victory in 1973 gave him 14 majors, eclipsing the record of Bobby Jones that had stood for 43 years.

Scoring
55-64: Grand Slam.
45-54: Wannamaker Trophy.
35-44: Solid Pro.
25-34: Amateur Status.
11-24: Back to the range.
0-10: Sell the clubs.




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