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50 free Women's Golf trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Women's golf has a longer history than most fans realise, and for much of it the players had no prize money, no tour and sometimes no way into the clubhouse. How that changed is a story of barnstorming champions, stubborn committees and a few rounds that rewrote the record books. This quiz covers the whole of it: the founders of the professional tour, the dominant champions of each era, the majors and the team matches, Olympic golf, and the players from Asia, Europe and the Americas who turned a mostly American circuit into a global one. It is written for anyone who follows the LPGA, watches the majors or needs a ready-made round for a golf club quiz night. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you leave with a few stories worth retelling.
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Q 01Which men's major champion beat 14 LPGA professionals in 1962 to become the only man to win an LPGA Tour event?
Sam Snead
Sam Snead won the Royal Poinciana Plaza Invitational by five strokes at the age of 49. The Battle of the Sexes event in Florida still counts as an official LPGA Tour title.
Q 02Which 16th-century monarch was accused of playing golf shortly after her husband Lord Darnley was murdered?
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots is often described as the first known woman golfer. Her critics said the game at Seton Palace in 1567 proved she was not in mourning.
Q 03Which Swedish golfer shot the LPGA Tour's first round of 59 and played the PGA Tour's Colonial in 2003?
Annika Sörenstam
Annika Sörenstam was the first woman to tee it up in a PGA Tour event since 1945. Her 59 came in 2001, a season in which she won eight times.
Q 04Which former member of a US president's Cabinet became one of Augusta National's first two women members in 2012?
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice joined with financier Darla Moore, a decade after protests led by Martha Burk put the Masters host club's men-only membership in the spotlight.
Q 05Which double Olympic track and field champion of 1932 went on to win ten major titles in women's golf?
Babe Zaharias
Babe Zaharias won the javelin and the 80-metre hurdles in Los Angeles, plus a silver in the high jump. In 1954 she won the U.S. Women's Open after surgery for colon cancer.
Q 06Which golfer won five tournaments in a row during a nine-win rookie season on the 1978 LPGA Tour?
Nancy Lopez
Nancy Lopez was named both Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year that season. Her winning streak put her on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Q 07Which Mexican golfer retired in 2010 at just 28 while still ranked number one in the world?
Lorena Ochoa
Lorena Ochoa held the top spot for 158 consecutive weeks until the day she stepped away. No golfer from her country, man or woman, had been ranked world number one before.
Q 08Which golfer became world number one at just 17 and later completed a full set of Olympic medals?
Lydia Ko
Lydia Ko took silver in 2016, bronze in 2021 and gold in 2024 for New Zealand. The gold also earned the final point she needed for the LPGA Hall of Fame.
Q 09Which South Korean golfer won two majors as a 1998 LPGA Tour rookie, inspiring a generation of compatriots to follow?
Se Ri Pak
Se Ri Pak was the only South Korean on the tour when she arrived. Ten years later there were 45, and Korean TV rights had become the LPGA's biggest source of revenue.
Q 10Which Hawaii-born golfer played a PGA Tour event at 14 and won the 2014 U.S. Women's Open?
Michelle Wie
Michelle Wie shot 68 in her second round at the 2004 Sony Open, then the lowest score by a woman in a PGA Tour event. She still missed the cut.
Q 11Which South Korean golfer won three straight majors in 2013 and the first women's Olympic golf gold for 116 years?
Inbee Park
Inbee Park won the 2016 Olympic title by five strokes. She is also only the seventh player to win four different women's majors.
Q 12Which American golfer, daughter of a Czech Australian Open tennis champion, won Olympic gold at the delayed Tokyo Games?
Nelly Korda
Nelly Korda was the first American woman to win individual Olympic golf gold since 1900. Her younger brother Sebastian followed their father into professional tennis.
Q 13Ariya Jutanugarn became the first major champion, male or female, from which country at the 2016 Women's British Open?
Thailand
Q 21Which golfer's 88 LPGA Tour wins are more than any player has managed on the main American men's or women's tour?
Kathy Whitworth
Kathy Whitworth won the last of her titles in 1985. Four years earlier she had become the first woman to reach $1 million in career earnings on the tour.
Q 22Which golfer, whose swing Ben Hogan called the best he had ever seen, held all four women's major titles at once?
Mickey Wright
Mickey Wright won 82 LPGA Tour events and 13 majors, then gave up full-time golf at 34 because of problems with her feet.
Q 23Which Australian golfer completed a Super Career Grand Slam by winning every available women's major by 2002?
Karrie Webb
Thailand had never produced a major winner in golf before her three-stroke victory. At 11 she had been the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA Tour event.
Q 14Margaret Abbott became the first American woman to win an Olympic event by taking the golf title in which host city?
Paris
Paris staged the 1900 Games over five months, and Abbott entered thinking it was an ordinary tournament. She died in 1955 never realising she was an Olympic champion.
Q 15The Ladies' Putting Club, founded in 1867 and called the world's oldest women's golf club, plays in which Scottish town?
St Andrews
St Andrews is home to the club's course, the Himalayas, named for its peaks and troughs. It is thought to be the first minigolf course ever made.
Q 16Which singer and TV host helped found a 1972 tournament that became the major now called the Chevron Championship?
Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore was elected an honorary member of the LPGA Hall of Fame in 1994. Every sponsored title of the event carried her name until 2000, and the trophy still does.
Q 17The Solheim Cup is named after Karsten Solheim, the engineer who founded which maker of golf clubs?
Ping
Ping was named for the sound his first putter made as the metal struck the ball. He built his early clubs in his garage before backing the women's team match in 1990.
Q 18Which country hosts the Evian Championship, a women's golf major played on a course overlooking Lake Geneva?
France
France hosts the event at the Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains. Founded as the Evian Masters in 1994, it only became the fifth women's major in 2013.
Q 19Which California course, long a men's U.S. Open venue, hosted its first U.S. Women's Open in 2023?
Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach finally welcomed the women's championship in its 78th edition. Allisen Corpuz won by three strokes for her first LPGA Tour victory.
Q 20Which tennis champion of the 1950s switched sports and broke the LPGA Tour's colour barrier in 1964?
Althea Gibson
Althea Gibson joined the tour at 37, having already crossed the colour line in international tennis. She was among its top 50 money winners for five years.
Karrie Webb sealed it at the 2002 Women's British Open. She once missed the chance of the LPGA's first $2 million season by going home mid-year to run with the Olympic torch.
Q 24Which English golfer, made a Dame in 2014, won the first U.S. Senior Women's Open by ten shots in 2018?
Laura Davies
Laura Davies was the first golfer, man or woman, to win on five different tours in one calendar year, in 1994. She also played in each of the first 12 Solheim Cups.
Q 25Which American won three straight U.S. Women's Amateur titles and went on to win majors in three different decades?
Juli Inkster
Juli Inkster won the first of those amateur titles three weeks after her wedding. She later played on nine United States Solheim Cup teams.
Q 26Which golfer, the LPGA's first president in 1950, still holds the record of 15 women's major titles?
Patty Berg
Patty Berg was one of the 13 founding members of the LPGA. During the Second World War she had been commissioned as an officer in the US Marine Corps.
Q 27Which American golfer qualified for the U.S. Women's Open aged 12 and lost a 2017 major after a four-stroke penalty?
Lexi Thompson
Lexi Thompson was penalised at the ANA Inspiration after a TV viewer reported that she had replaced her ball wrongly in the third round. She went on to lose in a playoff.
Q 28Which Scottish club was dropped from the Open Championship rota in 2016 after a vote failed to admit women members?
Muirfield
Muirfield voted again in March 2017, this time agreeing to admit women. The course has since staged the Women's British Open.
Q 29Which trophy, given by two American sisters, pits women amateur golfers from the USA against Great Britain and Ireland?
Curtis Cup
Curtis Cup matches began in 1932 at Wentworth in England, where the Americans won. Harriot and Margaret gave the trophy to promote friendships in women's golf.
Q 30Which golfer began the tradition of the champion leaping into Poppie's Pond after her 1988 major win at Mission Hills?
Amy Alcott
Amy Alcott started a ritual that later champions copied, and it followed the tournament when it left California for Texas in 2023.