PowerPin Golf #5 answers
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
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Sandy Lyle became the first British Open champion since Tony Jacklin in 1985, despite fluffing a chip at the last and sinking to his knees. Where?
Answer: Royal St George's, Sandwich
Lyle's chip from Duncan's Hollow rolled back towards him, but a bogey was still enough. He added the Masters in 1988.
Scotland's Russell Knox holed a 40-foot putt on the last green and another from similar range in the play-off to beat Ryan Fox at the 2018 Irish Open, at Ireland's most northerly links, in Donegal. Where?
Answer: Ballyliffin Golf Club, County Donegal
The club on the Inishowen peninsula has two links, the Old and the Glashedy. Fox went on to win the Open in 2026.
Aaron Rai, who won his first PGA Tour title at the 2024 Wyndham Championship and his first major two years later, was born in which West Midlands city?
Answer: Wolverhampton, West Midlands
Rai's parents are of Indian descent. He wears a glove on each hand and keeps covers on his irons, habits from a childhood taught to look after his kit.
The 2003 Presidents Cup ended in a tie after Ernie Els and Tiger Woods halved three sudden-death holes in near darkness and the captains agreed to share the trophy. Where?
Answer: Fancourt, George
Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player were the captains. Els had designed the course the match was played on.
Georgia Hall, the 2018 Women's British Open champion, is from which Dorset seaside town?
Answer: Bournemouth, Dorset
Hall was named after Augusta, Georgia. She won the 2020 Cambia Portland Classic in a play-off.