Trivia

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.

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”.

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

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.

Has there been a more iconic round of golf played in the course of winning a major championship?

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…

I have only one outstanding ambition, to have a hole in one. Desperate to know whether or not I would ever achieve it, I went…

I was wearing a green shirt when I won my first ever medal, believing it to be lucky, I have worn a green shirt for…

One of the remarkable things about Jim is that, although he almost invariably finds his own ball, he never seems to find anyone else’s.

Is there some aspect of your game that you simply can’t sort out? Dr Felix Shank, a more or less genuine expert on all aspects…

Scoring a condor represents one of the rarest of events in golf