Trivia

I go first (easy one)...

Name 3 golfers who finished in the top 3 in the 2011 Order of Merit on more than one tour...

I'll go for the obvious one...Luke Donald.
Now originally I thought it would be an or other player from Japan or Korea but I don't think it is.
Left field thought. What about the women? Wasn't there a player who played in only one tournament, but won it (Evian Masters?) and as there is no minimum tournament entry requirement for the LET, she won the European OOM as well as being high up in the LPGA?

As for the third....dunno.

I'm never wrong wrote:I'll go for the obvious one...Luke Donald.
Now originally I thought it would be an or other player from Japan or Korea but I don't think it is.
Left field thought. What about the women? Wasn't there a player who played in only one tournament, but won it (Evian Masters?) and as there is no minimum tournament entry requirement for the LET, she won the European OOM as well as being high up in the LPGA?

As for the third....dunno.

First of all, you're not wrong Luke is correct, of course, #1 on both PGAT and ET
Second, thanks for that observation, I should have said it, question refers to the main men's tours only...
Keep them coming...

Hiratsuka?

Nope, but a very good guess, kwini...
Hiratsuka was 2nd on the Asian Tour but only 9th on the JP Tour...

Aaron Baddeley.

Nope, Badds 20th on PGAT and 8th on the oz tour...

Charl?

Not Charl... He was 4th on ET and 24th on PGAT...

I thought he maybe still played on the sunshine tour and that his Masters money would have propelled him up that.

Will keep thinking about it.

PS what are the main mens golf tours?

The ones sanctioned by owgr but without including the 2nd tier ones (Nationwide and Challenge Tours)...

How about Rory ? With his win in Asia late on, not rocketing him up the Asia Tour list ?

so

Euro
PGA
asian
sunshine
japan
australaisian
south american

Did either Bae or KT Kim double up in Japan and Asia?

It must be one of the saffers. Els or Goosen?

What about Ishikawa on the JP and Asian tours, just a guess.

Also another guess what about Westwood?

This is an interesting game - Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Golfer...

If OneAsia counts, then I suspected one of our mystery men doubled up under that umbrella plus Asian, Japanese or Aus tour.

I was going to guess K-t Kim yesterday, but then rather stupidly checked (which spoilt the fun) and don't think he quite makes it. However, the answer might be someone else who has been discussed on the board in the past week [if OneAsia does indeed count]...?

Haven't a clue about the other!

Does ishikawa not just have Japan and pga tour membership. He would have to play almost 52 weeks a year to maintain a third card.

Ishikawa is not a PGA Tour member, but he's trying hard to become one!

OneAsia Tour is an interesting shout, had forgot that one! Did Andre Stolz not win one of their big events, and possibly have a good year in Aus too....

Apologies, was terribly busy today and completely forgot that I started this thread...

So, I see there's been some good progress here

OneAsia counts, indeed... and although noone gave a complete answer but the name and one of the tours have been mentioned, I can confirm that K-t-Kim is one of the culprits... he finished 1st on the Korean Tour (another one that counts!) and 2nd on the OneAsia tour...

Now who's the 3rd one...?
BTW, none of the other names mentioned are correct...

tough one

Yep, this is a tough one...
Little clue:
- he's not a top 100 golfer...

Ah ha!
I've found the rascal!!
And I'd never heard of him!!!

To let others enjoy I'll just suggest the first name of Benny . . . .

Well done, kwini!

See, it was as easy as ABC!
Little clue #2: ...or to be more precise ... BA from C

Bloody hell, cant imagine there are many OWGR points handed out on those tours. And he only played 8 times on one of the tours, which oddly seems the norm.

Give it away pd...

Well given the clues I have found out who it. I then wasted a load of time trying to find the third tour as I had misremembered the question. Oh well, found a load of tours I'd never really heard of!

OK, here it goes...

His name is Benjamin Alvarado from Chile!
Came 2nd on the Latin American Tour and 3rd on the Canadian Tour...

Sorry about that...

Come on then PD, if that was an easy one please spare us a tough one ('')

I can offer another "you know the answer or you don't" type question in the same mould as the Chilean luminary if you like. Appreciate this flavour of quiz question is not everyone's cup of tea, but the background achievement sounds quite impressive anyway -

I won the first 3 events on a certain tour as a rookie in 2010 and went on to win the order of merit for that year... I wasn't really a rookie though.

[I thought that some people refer to me as the Godfather of Golf in my home country, but strangely, I can't seem to find that on the internet...!]

I'd just say that he reminds me in a way of Boo Weekley......

Good grief, I've referred to you as the Vampire Oracle in the past but you really do know a lot!

The answer is Thailand's Boonchu Ruangkit, who switched to the European Seniors Tour in 2010 (from Champions Tour I think).

Pointed him out to my companions at the Senior Open last year, albeit at a reasonable distance. "Ooo - that's Ruangkit!" said I. Not expecting many if any Thai players around (and maybe being a Harry Potter fan, don't know), one of the party asked "So is this Radcliffe guy any good?".

Huh needed 8 holes to see off allenby in a play off this week but does anyone know what the longest sudden death play off in pga tour history is?

Yes!

I really expected this to go to the googling stage. Seems it was too easy.

11holes, they mentioned it on the higlights on sky last night when they showed the Allenby/Huh shootout

Fader

You got the length of holes but can you remember the participants and where?

Lloyd Mangrum i'm sure was one of the participants the other escapes me though.

If it ever happened, a playoff between Ben Crane, Keegan Bradley and Kevin Na might be a contender for the longest (although I know that's not what you mean!)...

Cant remember who the other player was and where it was played but I do remember they shared 1st place!

Can just picture the officials pleading with Skydriver's imaginary threesome...

How many tonnes of mass does our sun loose a second?

Lairdy wrote:Cant remember who the other player was and where it was played but I do remember they shared 1st place!

Can just picture the officials pleading with Skydriver's imaginary threesome...

My hubby says it was Cary Middlecoff (that's Doctor Middlecoff, apparently). A bit before my time I hasten to add.

I have actually forgotten who was in the play off and where I read it so if someone else wishes to confirm Plunkies guess then go for it.


No takers for the brain cox wonder fact?

McLaren wrote:How many tonnes of mass does our sun loose a second?

How do you catch a moonbeam in your hand ?

Plunky wrote:

McLaren wrote:How many tonnes of mass does our sun loose a second?

How do you catch a moonbeam in your hand ?

not sure about the first, but i am sure parnevik would help you out oin that one!

however the second is simple. you need to use a leather footjoy glove.

Well it's my 16th birthday today.
Another 8 years and I can buy a drink in the pub.

Ah... Happy Birthday Doon!! Are you treating yourself to a round somewhere nice?

Blimey Doon, I seem to recall now that when you were merely ubiquitous we discussed that in just another 24 yrs until you could buy a drinkie here. Only 20 yrs now.
Many happy returns!