Golf Masters II Quiz

Part II - Famous Americans who have won. Points awarded for a) recognition b) well-known nicknames and c) the year or years the pictured player won.

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13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

Bonus question 21. I didn't picture Tiger (too easy to get !) - but points available for correctly naming the years in which he won.

Good luck !

[CraigC]

11. Phil Mickelson, 2006
13. Mark O'Meara?, 2000ish
14. Ray Floyd, 1992ish
16. Jack Nicklaus, the Golden Bear, loads of times
17. early Tom Watson?
18. Craig Stadler, The Walrus, 1986

[NigelS]

12 Arnold Palmer
19 Paul Azinger (never won it)
20 Ben Crenshaw won in around 1995

Good effort so far.

Craig: 2pts for Mickelson (but 1 more year to get)
1pt for O'Meara (year has to be precise) - and I'm assuming you meant as answer to 14.
Ray Floyd is not there.
2pts for the Golden Bear (six years to be named)
1pt for Watson
2pts for the Walrus (year incorrect)

Nigel:
1pt for Arnie (he won it four times)
Azinger is not there.
2pts for Crenshaw (one of his two years correctly named)

Leaderboard:
1. CraigC 8pts
2. NigelS 3pts

[Mark James]

Only just seen this, no.15 seems to be the only one as yet unidentified.

It's Ben Hogan.

Correct Mark fo 1pt.

Actually there's still two to get - 13 and 19 - through incorrect guesses.

And plenty of bonus points for information as regards years won.

Leaderboard:
1. CraigC 8pts
2. NigelS 3pts
3. MarkJ 1pt

[Mark James]

13 is Fred Couples.... Boom boom

19 is Larry Mize? chipped in to defeat Greg Norman in 1987

2pts there for Fred/Boom-boom and 3pts for recognising Larry, giving the year, and also mentioning the circumstances.

I've turned this up on Greg Norman, courtesy of Wikepedia, and find this incredible for someone who spent 331 weeks as the world's number one ranked golfer in the 1980's and 1990's:

Norman won The Open Championship twice, in 1986 and 1993, and also won The Players Championship in 1994 in record-setting fashion (averaging 68.81 per round for the year). Despite his huge success on the U.S. PGA Tour and his many wins around the world, Norman will be forever regarded as an underachiever (given his talents), a characterization fueled by his myriad near-misses in The Masters, the U.S. Open, and the PGA Championship. He was equally a victim of his own bad luck and good luck on the part of his fellow golfers in major championships. He infamously lost a near-certain PGA Championship in 1986 after Bob Tway holed a greenside bunker shot (though Norman himself shot a 76 that day), and lost The Masters the following year in a playoff on an even more miraculous 45-yard chip shot by Larry Mize on the second play-off hole.

But not all of Norman's Major woes have been at the hands of others. Many times he has failed to perform in the final round of a tournament, whether it be a final-round 78 in the Masters (see below), a 73 in the 1995 US Open where even-par 70 would have won the tournament, or the 76 in the '86 PGA that set him up to be defeated by Bob Tway's bunker shot. Several of Norman's infamous "chokes" occurred when his wobble-prone putting got the better of him. In 1986, he led all four majors after the third round but won only the British Open. (This is jokingly referred to as the "Norman Slam" or the "Saturday Slam," as in he was leading after the third round on Saturday but lost in the final round on Sunday). He is one of only two players to have competed in - and, like Craig Wood, to have lost - play-offs in all four of the major championships. But perhaps the most embarrassing Norman meltdown of all occurred at The Masters in 1996, where he blew a six-stroke lead in the final round and lost the tournament to Nick Faldo by five strokes, shooting a Sunday 78 to Faldo's 67. ESPN, as part of their "ESPN25" 25th-anniversary celebration, ranked Norman's 1996 Masters mishap as the third-biggest sports choke of the last 25 years. Despite the losses, though, Norman still has twenty nine top-ten finishes in the majors.

Leaderboard:
1. CraigC 8pts
2. MarkJ 6pts
3. NigelS 3pts

[NigelS]

markjames said:

13 is Fred Couples.... Boom boom

19 is Larry Mize? chipped in to defeat Greg Norman in 1987

I remember staying up as a lad and watching that chip go in. I was rooting for Greg Norman as he was a great player around that time.

2 majors was indeed a very short return for a man of his talents. The 1996 Masters where he lost to Faldo was unforgettable.

tommo said:

Leaderboard:
1. CraigC 8pts
2. MarkJ 6pts
3. NigelS 3pts

A recap of where we are on this.
All stars correctly identified, but 23 points still up for grabs for the years the event was won.
Only ones successfully named so far are 1987 (Larry Mize), 1995 (Ben Crenshaw) and 2006 (Phil Mickelson).
There's six to get for Nicklaus; four from Arnie and four from Tiger.

[WolfLord]

11.2004
12.1958, 1960, 1962, 1964
13.1992
14.1998
15.1951, 1953
16.1963, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1975, 1986
17.1977, 1981
18.1982
20.1984
21.1997, 2001, 2002, 2005
By winning in 1997 Tiger Eldrich Woods became the youngest ever winner of a Major

All 'missing' years now supplied by Wolfman for 23pts. Plus bonus for the postscript information on the Tiger.

Quiz finished:

1. Wolfman 24pts
2. CraigC 8pts
3. MarkJ 6pts
4. NigelS 3pts