Quiz: The ultimate Open Championship test of knowledge

How do you think you got on in our ultimate Open Championship quiz? Here are the answers…

Round 1: Open history

1. 1860
2. Willie Park Sr
3. Prestwick
4. Tom Morris Jr
5. St George’s, Sandwich in 1894 (not ‘Royal’ until 1902
6. Old Tom Morris
7. JH Taylor, Harry Vardon and James Braid
8. Walter Hagen, 1922
9. Henry Cotton, 1934
10. Dick Burton, thanks to WWII
11. It was held at Royal Portrush, the only occasion it was not played on the island of Great Britain
12. Gary Player, 23 years 9 months
13. Doug Sanders
14. Turnberry
15. Muirfield
16. Greg Norman
17. Barry Burn
18. Sergio Garcia
19. Stewart Cink
20. Phil Mickelson

Round 2: Birkdale and the Open

21. 1954
22. Peter Thomson
23. JH Taylor
24. Dai Rees
25. Harry Vardon
26. Ryder Cup
27. Lee Trevino
28. Liang-Huan Lu (‘Mr Lu’)
29. 100th playing of the event
30. Johnny Miller
31. Seve Ballesteros
32. Gene Sarazen
33. It was the only Open he won in England
34. Ian Baker-Finch
35. Richard Boxall
36. Mark O’Meara
37. Justin Rose
38. Padraig Harrington
39. Greg Norman (with Chris Evert)
40. World War II

Round 3: Experts only

41. 16 (Vardon 6, Braid 5, Taylor 5)
42. St Andrews (29), Prestwick (24); Muirfield (16); Sandwich (14); Hoylake (12); Lytham (11)
43. He was carrying 15 clubs in his bag
44. Justin Leonard
45. Tony Lema
46. Fred Daly, the only Northern Ireland player to win the Open before Rory McIlroy in 2014
47. Ben Curtis (2003) and Todd Hamilton (2004)
48. Reg Whitcombe, brother of Charles and Ernest
49. Bobby Locke
50. Jamie Anderson (1877, 1878,1879) and Bob Ferguson (1880, 1881, 1882)

Final scores

How did you get on?

0-20: Zero links craft
21-30: Links novice
31-40: You can play a chip and run
41-50: You can flight a 2-iron into a headwind
51-60: You can shoot 70 in a storm
60-65: You are a hybrid of Tom Watson, Young Tom Morris and Harry Vardon

About the quizmaster

Alun Evans is a golf historian renowned for his work on the major championships, and a regular contributor to NCG. The latest edition in his series, The Golf Majors Book 2017, is available on Amazon and priced at £12.99. It is thoroughly recommended to all who like to have to hand the stories and facts of every major going back to 1860.