Golf Trivia To Keep You Warm

By | February 2, 2010 | Golf | 1 Comment
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While watching the Pro Bowl on Sunday, for what may be the first time ever, I happened to see a commercial for The Masters. It was 16 degrees outside and my TV was showing me spring. Jim Nantz‘ voice over the Masters theme music and all that green. I even stopped shivering for a minute.

So instead of more football trivia, let’s think about warmer weather and golf. I have enough questions to keep you thinking about golf for a few days.

See if you can name the following:

1. world’s largest green

2. world’s largest bunker

3. world’s longest hole

4. world’s highest course

5. world’s longest course

Or, if you are a Masters fan like me, try naming all 18 holes at Augusta National. If you really want to show off, include an explanation of why each hole is named for a tree or shrub.

As usual, put your answers in the comments. Draft Day Suit bragging rights are on the line, and let’s leave Mr. Google out of it.

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ClumberKim is a sports geek. The die was cast early, by age 8, when Kim told anyone who would listen that she wanted to be the Boston Bruins statistician when she grew up. She could rattle off the roster by number, position, or hometown. Her sports interests are diverse, ranging from figure skating to football. She loves to watch golf, read books about golf, and trash talk golf, but she has never swung a club. The Fantasia Gardens course at Disney World doesn't count. Her participation in sports is limited to tennis in high school, rugby in college (where she excelled in the third half), and pitching endlessly to her baseball-loving son.

One Reply to Golf Trivia To Keep You Warm

  1. clumberkim says:
    February 11, 2010 at 2:16 pm

    Here are the answers, in the unlikely event that anyone cares:
    1. 695 yard 5th hole at the International Golf Club in Massachusetts. 28,000 sq feet.
    2. 585 yard 7th hole at Pine Valley in New Jersey, aka Hell’s Half Acre
    3. 909 yard 7th hole at Sano Course, Satsuki Golf Club in Japan. It’s a par 7.
    4. Tactu Golf Club in Morococha, Peru is 14,335 feet above sea level at its lowest point.
    5. International Golf Club again, par 77, 8325 yards

    The tree/shrub thing comes from the fact that the site of Augusta National was once known as Fruitland Nurseries.

    Here are the holes:
    1. Tea Olive
    2. Dogwood
    3. Flowering Peach
    4. Flowering Crabapple
    5. Magnolia
    6. Juniper
    7. Pampas
    8. Yellow Jasmine
    9. Carolina Cherry
    10. Camelia
    11. White Dogwood
    12. Golden Bell
    13. Azalea
    14. Chinese Fir
    15. Firethorn
    16. Redbud
    17. Nandina
    18. Holly

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