PGA Trivia, Volume 5- Answered

by Bill Jempty on Mar 17, 2009 1:04 PM EDT

Here, we will do something different.

You don't need to know the winner or infamous Masters loser, but who was playing with them on their famous Sunday at Augusta.

1975 - Jack Nicklaus- and ??
1978 - Gary Player and ??
1979 - Ed Sneed* and ??
1984 - Ben Crenshaw and ??
1986 - Jack Nicklaus and ??

You have to figure out all five of us. We all share something in common. That is your only clue.

Sneed is the only loser among this group. His final round collapse at the 1979 Masters is arguably the most famous in that tournament's history.

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I didn't think this was all that tough. Apparently I was wrong

75- Tom Watson

78- Sevriano Ballesteros

79- Craig Stadler

84- Nick Faldo

86- Sandy Lyle

What they all had in common- They would all go on to win the Masters themselves.

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Gotta be Arnie.

"I have come that you may have life, and life to the max"

by MNeilson on Mar 17, 2009 7:56 PM EDT reply actions

Its five different golfers and not Palmer

But they all share one thing in common. Sunday pairings are done by position on the leaderboard.

by Bill Jempty on Mar 18, 2009 9:36 AM EDT reply actions

I've no clue as to the answer...

…but I’m looking forward to finding out what the common bond is.

"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose." - Winston Churchill

by turnover on Mar 18, 2009 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Well, both Nicklaus’ weren’t in the final pairing, so that kind of helps…

by Ryan Ballengee on Mar 18, 2009 9:54 AM EDT reply actions

1975 – Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Mar 18, 2009 10:34 AM EDT reply actions

Really? I thought it was Miller and Weiskopf in the final group.

by Ryan Ballengee on Mar 18, 2009 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions

hey – I’m guessing here ! lol

Nicklaus blew the field away in the first two rounds and cruised on the weekend.

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Mar 18, 2009 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions

Ok, had to look this one up and found this Dan Jenkins summary. Looks like he was with Watson in the next to last pairing.

by Ryan Ballengee on Mar 18, 2009 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions

well there you have it – Nicklaus and Watson. Reading that makes me wish I had been playing golf at that age.

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Mar 18, 2009 11:56 AM EDT up reply actions

Tom Watson

is one but who are the other 4. They have something in common with Watson.

by Bill Jempty on Mar 18, 2009 1:20 PM EDT reply actions

After poking around, I think 1984 is Crenshaw with Roger Maltbie.

by Ryan Ballengee on Mar 18, 2009 1:43 PM EDT up reply actions

Maltbie played with Crenshaw in the final round in 1987, not 84. All those golfers above but Ed Sneed won the Masters in the years I list. Crenshaw and Maltbie finished one shot out of the Mize-Norman-Ballesteros playoff.

by Bill Jempty on Mar 18, 2009 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions

Oh, I misread the link I clicked on. My bad.

by Ryan Ballengee on Mar 18, 2009 1:53 PM EDT up reply actions

You know

I figured someone would get Watson. The other four, aren’t so hard to figure out. If you notice a trend on the ones you discover, you figure out the hard ones.

by Bill Jempty on Mar 18, 2009 1:21 PM EDT reply actions