Golf Courses Trivia

1. El Camaleón ("The Chameleon") at the Fairmont Mayakoba in Quintana Roo, Mexico, is notable for its many hazards including sand dunes, mangroves, freshwater canals, and cenotes. What, then, is a cenote?

From Quiz Ten of the World's Strangest Golf Courses

Answer: Sinkhole

El Camaleón Golf Course was designed by Australian golf great Greg Norman. It is so named because of its constantly changing views as it winds through three different ecosystems: the tropical Mayan jungle, mangrove wetlands, and the Mexican Caribbean Sea coastline. A cenote is a natural hole in the ground caused by the collapse of limestone bedrock that may open into a subterranean cave. One of the cenotes on the course is called "The Devil's Mouth" - good luck if your ball goes down there! The course is the home of the Mayakoba Golf Classic, which was the first PGA TOUR event to be contested outside the US and Canada.

From Quiz Building Green

Answer: St. Andrews

Apart from the Jubilee, there are six other courses at St. Andrews, including The Old Course, which is the oldest golf course in the world. It was on this course that Daniel Steel played in the 1970 Open Championship, where he recorded scores of 78 and 76, missing the cut for the third round.

From Quiz Augusta National Golf Club

Answer: Georgia

In the early 1930s, Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts met and proposed to build a golf course near Augusta, Georgia. He hoped that the property had many mounds and hills, and a creek to serve as a natural water hazard.

From Quiz Great U.S. Golf Courses

Answer: Lanny Wadkins

Lanny Wadkins won a major in the 1977 PGA championship.

From Quiz Irish Golf Courses

Answer: Ballybunion Old

He is an honorary member and has served as honorary club captain. The course itself has been around since 1893, but only achieved prominence in the 1980s.

From Quiz Pine Valley Golf Club

Answer: Philadelphia, Pa.

The city skyline is visible from one of the tee boxes on the course.

From Quiz TPC Sugarloaf

Answer: Bell South Classic

The Bell South Cassic was held at TPC Sugarloaf. The par for the original 18 holes was 72.

From Quiz Golf Courses

Answer: Coeur D'Alene

Located in Idaho, hole 14 a par 3 can be moved to play between 75 and 175 yards. Golfers catch a boat ride to the island.

From Quiz Building Green

Answer: Severiano Ballesteros

Seve won the Open in 1979, 1984 and 1988 and was Masters champion in 1980 and 1983. He designed Quinta do Vale in 2008, with its beautiful views over the Guadiana River and six challenging par 5s. Seve died in 2011, three years after undergoing treatment for a brain tumor.

From Quiz Classic Golf Holes

Answer: 18th at Pebble Beach

The 18th at Pebble Beach was a average par 4 until 200 yards were added to it, to make it one of the classic finishing holes.

From Quiz Augusta National Golf Club

Answer: Fruitland Nurseries

This was once an Indigo Plantation, and the nursery had been closed since 1918. Bobby Jones said, when he first saw the land "Perfect! And to think this ground has been lying here all these years waiting for someone to come along and lay a golf course on it."

From Quiz Great U.S. Golf Courses

Answer: The Olympic Club

Fleck birdied two out of the last four holes to force a playoff, and then won the championship the next day in an 18-hole playoff.

From Quiz Irish Golf Courses

Answer: Lahinch

The course was originally built by Old Tom Morris in 1892. Redesigned in 1927 by Alistair McKenzie, only the famous 5th (Dell) and 6th (Klondyke) from the Morris design survived.

From Quiz Pine Valley Golf Club

Answer: George Crump & H.S. Colt

Hotel baron George Crump purchased the land, in Clementon, New Jersey, in 1912 for what would be the Pine Valley Golf Club. He spent the last six years of his life developing it and designed nearly all of the course. H.S. Colt assisted in the original routing and receives credit as co-designer. Hugh Wilson, of Merion fame, helped finalize the course after Crump died in 1918.

From Quiz TPC Sugarloaf

Answer: Three

Although the tournament is only played on two sets of nine holes, is has three sets for everyday members and guests use. The three are: Stables, Meadows, and Pines. {Only the Stables and Meadows are played in the tournament}.

From Quiz Golf Courses

Answer: Kiawah Island

Kiawah Island is an oceanside links type golf course located in South Carolina. US won the match.

From Quiz Ten of the World's Strangest Golf Courses

Answer: It is floating on its own island

Billed by the resort as "the world's only Floating Green," the mini-island can be moved as far as 218 yards through a system of cables and winches. Players get to the green by ferry. "Golf Digest" once described Coeur D'Alene Golf Resort as "America's Most Beautiful Resort Golf Course."

From Quiz Building Green

Answer: Robert Trent Jones

Jones' sons Robert Trent Jr, and Rees both followed in their father's footsteps and became golf course architects and have between them designed many courses around the world. Jones Senior was born in Ince-in-Makerfield, near Wigan UK and emigrated to USA when five years old. In 1927 he posted the best score of all the amateur golfers at the Canadian Open and in 1987 he received the highest possible honour from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, the Old Tom Award. He died in 2000 aged 93.

From Quiz Augusta National Golf Club

Answer: 1931

Construction began in early 1931. The course opened in December 1932, followed by a formal opening in January 1933.

From Quiz Great U.S. Golf Courses

Answer: Oakland Hills

Ricky Barnes most recently won the 2002 U.S. Amatuer there.

From Quiz Irish Golf Courses

Answer: County Sligo

Yeats' grave is located on the north side of town. The course is located 5 miles west of town at Rosses Point.

From Quiz Pine Valley Golf Club

Answer: 158

The dastardly penal golf course has more hazards than a war zone more undulations than imaginable, yet its lush fairways are some of the widest imaginable.

From Quiz TPC Sugarloaf

Answer: Greg Norman & Norman

Greg Norman is most certainly one of the most famous players of all time. Nicknamed the "Great White Shark", or "Shark" for short, this logo appears on all of his apparell and golf wear.

From Quiz Golf Courses

Answer: TPC at Las Colinas

Also known as the Four Seasons Resort course.

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