Q 01/05

Which men's major champion beat 14 LPGA professionals in 1962 to become the only man to win an LPGA Tour event?

A) Ben Hogan

B) Byron Nelson

C) Sam Snead

D) Arnold Palmer

Answer · why

C) 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 off...

Q 02/05

Which 16th-century monarch was accused of playing golf shortly after her husband Lord Darnley was murdered?

A) Elizabeth I of England

B) Mary, Queen of Scots

C) Catherine de' Medici

D) Mary I of England

Answer · why

B) 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 mourn...

Q 03/05

Which Swedish golfer shot the LPGA Tour's first round of 59 and played the PGA Tour's Colonial in 2003?

A) Annika Sörenstam

B) Liselotte Neumann

C) Helen Alfredsson

D) Sophie Gustafson

Answer · why

A) 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 04/05

Which former member of a US president's Cabinet became one of Augusta National's first two women members in 2012?

A) Madeleine Albright

B) Elizabeth Dole

C) Janet Reno

D) Condoleezza Rice

Answer · why

D) 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 ...

Q 05/05

Which double Olympic track and field champion of 1932 went on to win ten major titles in women's golf?

A) Betty Jameson

B) Babe Zaharias

C) Marilynn Smith

D) Betsy Rawls

Answer · why

B) 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 sur...