PowerPin Golf #3 answers
Sunday, 25 October 2026
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Suzann Pettersen holed a six-foot birdie putt on the final green of the final match to win the 2019 Solheim Cup for Europe, then retired from golf on the spot. Where?
Answer: Gleneagles, Perthshire
Pettersen had been a surprise captain's pick after two years away having a baby. Europe won 14½-13½.
Tiger Woods won the 2008 US Open on a broken leg and a torn knee ligament, holing a 12-footer at the 72nd hole and beating Rocco Mediate at the 91st. Where?
Answer: Torrey Pines, San Diego
Woods had surgery days later and missed the rest of the season. It was his 14th major; the 15th did not come for 11 years.
Nelly Korda, Olympic champion in 2021 and winner of five tournaments in a row in 2024, grew up in which Florida city, the daughter of a Czech tennis champion?
Answer: Bradenton, Florida
Her father Petr Korda won the 1998 Australian Open. Her sister Jessica also plays on the LPGA tour.
A 17-year-old amateur, Justin Rose, chipped in at the last to finish fourth at the 1998 Open, won by Mark O'Meara in a play-off. Where?
Answer: Royal Birkdale, Southport
Rose turned professional the next day and missed 21 cuts in a row. O'Meara won the Masters and the Open in the same year at 41.
Which West Lothian town produced three Ryder Cup players from one golf club: Eric Brown, Bernard Gallacher and his nephew Stephen?
Answer: Bathgate, West Lothian
Bernard Gallacher captained Europe three times, winning at Oak Hill in 1995. Stephen played at Gleneagles in 2014.