PowerPin Golf #9

Question 1

Jean Van de Velde needed a double bogey at the last to win the 1999 Open and took a triple, paddling in the Barry Burn, before Paul Lawrie won the play-off from ten shots back. Where?

Accepted Answer

Carnoustie Golf Links, Angus. Van de Velde hit the grandstand, a rock and the water. Lawrie's comeback is the biggest final-round turnaround in major history.

Question 2

David Duval won his only major at the 2001 Open by three shots, in the week Ian Woosnam was penalised two strokes for having 15 clubs in his bag. Where?

Accepted Answer

Royal Lytham & St Annes, Lancashire. Sweden's Niclas Fasth was runner-up. Woosnam's caddie had left a spare driver in the bag after warming up, and Woosnam finished joint third.

Question 3

Scottie Scheffler shot 62 to win Olympic gold in 2024, and Lydia Ko completed a full set of Olympic medals a week later, at the course that staged the 2018 Ryder Cup. Where?

Accepted Answer

Le Golf National, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Tommy Fleetwood took silver and Rory McIlroy finished fifth. Ko's gold put her in the Hall of Fame.

Question 4

John Daly, the long-hitting 1991 PGA and 1995 Open champion, grew up in which small Arkansas town on the Arkansas River?

Accepted Answer

Dardanelle, Arkansas. Daly still lives there. He has sold merchandise from a camper van in the car park of the Hooters restaurant during Masters week.

Question 5

Which links at Rosses Point, beneath the flat-topped mountain of Ben Bulben that W. B. Yeats wrote about, is the home of the West of Ireland Championship?

Accepted Answer

County Sligo Golf Club, Rosses Point. Rory McIlroy won the West of Ireland twice as a teenager. Yeats is buried in Drumcliff churchyard, under Ben Bulben.

PowerPin Golf #9 answers

Jean Van de Velde needed a double bogey at the last to win the 1999 Open and took a triple, paddling in the Barry Burn, before Paul Lawrie won the play-off from ten shots back. Where?

David Duval won his only major at the 2001 Open by three shots, in the week Ian Woosnam was penalised two strokes for having 15 clubs in his bag. Where?

Scottie Scheffler shot 62 to win Olympic gold in 2024, and Lydia Ko completed a full set of Olympic medals a week later, at the course that staged the 2018 Ryder Cup. Where?

John Daly, the long-hitting 1991 PGA and 1995 Open champion, grew up in which small Arkansas town on the Arkansas River?

Which links at Rosses Point, beneath the flat-topped mountain of Ben Bulben that W. B. Yeats wrote about, is the home of the West of Ireland Championship?