PowerPin Golf #12

Question 1

Paul Casey, who played in five Ryder Cups and won the Scottish Open and the European Masters, is from which Gloucestershire spa town, better known for its racecourse?

Accepted Answer

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Casey played college golf in Arizona and won the 1999 Walker Cup at Nairn alongside Luke Donald.

Question 2

Payne Stewart holed a 15-foot par putt on the final green to win the 1999 US Open, then held Phil Mickelson's face and told him he was going to be a father. Where?

Accepted Answer

Pinehurst No. 2, North Carolina. Mickelson carried a pager in case his wife went into labour; their daughter was born the next day. Stewart died in a plane crash four months later, and a statue of his pose stands behind the 18th green.

Question 3

Xander Schauffele and Nelly Korda won Olympic golds in 2021 at a Japanese course that had to admit women members to keep the event. Where?

Accepted Answer

Kasumigaseki Country Club, Saitama. Rory Sabbatini of Slovakia shot 61 for silver. Schauffele's father, his coach, had been an Olympic hopeful before a car crash.

Question 4

Which links on the Dyfi estuary did the golf writer Bernard Darwin, whose family helped found it, call the course his soul loved best?

Accepted Answer

Aberdovey Golf Club, Gwynedd. Darwin, grandson of Charles, was the first great golf journalist. The railway runs along the edge of the course.

Question 5

Europe won the 2000 Solheim Cup on the shores of Scotland's largest loch, in a match soured by a row over a conceded putt that Annika Sörenstam had chipped in. Where?

Accepted Answer

Loch Lomond Golf Club. Sörenstam was made to replay a chip she had holed because she had played out of turn, and did not hole it again. Europe won 14½-11½.

PowerPin Golf #12 answers

Paul Casey, who played in five Ryder Cups and won the Scottish Open and the European Masters, is from which Gloucestershire spa town, better known for its racecourse?

Payne Stewart holed a 15-foot par putt on the final green to win the 1999 US Open, then held Phil Mickelson's face and told him he was going to be a father. Where?

Xander Schauffele and Nelly Korda won Olympic golds in 2021 at a Japanese course that had to admit women members to keep the event. Where?

Which links on the Dyfi estuary did the golf writer Bernard Darwin, whose family helped found it, call the course his soul loved best?

Europe won the 2000 Solheim Cup on the shores of Scotland's largest loch, in a match soured by a row over a conceded putt that Annika Sörenstam had chipped in. Where?