Trivia

A look at some key trends over the past two decades

You are such a wise and learned man, I wonder if you could help solve a riddle that has perplexed me for several years.

A move to March has made it trickier to predict this year’s winner

A look at some key trends over the past two decades

Interested in whether the much maligned exhortation, ‘Get in the hole’ has any effect, we conducted a fascinating experiment.

Inaugurated in 1985

I’m determined not to let him beat me again but don’t know how to counter what he describes as ”his caddie in the sky”.

1990-2019

Awarded to the European individual, who had made the most outstanding contribution to golf in the preceding year.

Winners of the Harry Vardon Trophy awarded to Race to Dubai and previously Order of Merit winners.

Awarded to players who share Payne Stewart’s respect for the traditions of the game, commitment to charity, professionalism and sporting conduct.

Whilst we found Buffy’s ball, albeit after a full five minutes had elapsed, we never did find Buffy.

Total prize money earned in a players.

Plenty of fans and players will be thinking ahead to next year and the Majors, so it is interesting to see how the bookmakers think…

Although I don’t especially like him, I always treat my rather mean and extremely boring father-in-law to a game of golf.

When picking Ryder Cup pairings, it can be tempting for a captain to turn to what worked in the past.

For the last seven or eight years I have regularly played golf with an old friend of mine on the third Wednesday of every month.

How preposterous it was of me to be even thinking about getting a stupid little ball into that distant hole in just four shots.

Telling someone that they smell is possibly even more difficult than they are incorrectly aligned at address.

Now my weekends aren’t wasted on the golf course I have time to explore other activities. Golf had taken over my life and I now…