27 Golf Trivia Questions and Answers
Golf trivia about the scores and the clubs, the major championships, the Ryder Cup and the great players from Bobby Jones and Arnold Palmer to Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. Every answer is printed under its question.
There are 27 questions on this page. They are free to use for quiz nights, classrooms and pub quizzes, and each one links to its own page.
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1.What is the term for a score of one stroke under par on a hole?
Answer: A birdie
Open this question2.What is the term for a score of two strokes under par on a hole?
Answer: An eagle
Open this question3.What is the term for a score of three strokes under par on a hole?
Answer: An albatross (double eagle)
Open this question4.What is the term for a score of one stroke over par on a hole?
Answer: A bogey
Open this question5.What word is traditionally shouted to warn people that a golf ball may hit them?
Answer: "Fore!"
Open this question6.Which golf club is used mostly on the putting green?
Answer: The putter
Open this question7.In which country did the modern game of golf develop?
Answer: Scotland
Open this question8.Which Scottish town is called the "home of golf"?
Answer: St Andrews
Open this question9.Which major championship is played at Augusta National Golf Club every year?
Answer: The Masters
Open this question10.What does the winner of the Masters receive besides prize money?
Answer: A green jacket
Open this question11.Which golf major championship was founded in 1860 and first held at Prestwick Golf Club?
Answer: The Open Championship (British Open)
Open this question12.What is the name of the biennial golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States?
Answer: The Ryder Cup
Open this question13.Which American golfer, nicknamed the Golden Bear, won 18 major championships?
Answer: Jack Nicklaus
Open this question14.Which golfer won the 1997 Masters by 12 strokes, his first major title?
Answer: Tiger Woods
Open this question15.What name is given to Tiger Woods's feat of winning four consecutive major championships, completed at the 2001 Masters?
Answer: The "Tiger Slam"
Open this question16.Which golfer's large fan base was known as "Arnie's Army"?
Answer: Arnold Palmer
Open this question17.Which golfer was nicknamed "the Black Knight" and "Mr Fitness"?
Answer: Gary Player
Open this question18.Which golfer won the "Grand Slam" of all four major tournaments of his era in a single year, 1930?
Answer: Bobby Jones
Open this question19.What is a hole completed in a single stroke called?
Answer: A hole in one (ace)
Open this question20.Which astronaut hit two golf balls on the lunar surface?
Answer: Alan Shepard
Open this question21.What is the name of the professional golf tour for women in the United States?
Answer: The LPGA Tour
Open this question22.Which athlete won two Olympic gold medals in track and field in 1932 before winning 10 LPGA major championships?
Answer: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Open this question23.What is the sand-filled hollow on a golf course called?
Answer: A bunker (sand trap)
Open this question24.What is the 1-wood, the golf club with the lowest loft, more commonly called?
Answer: The driver
Open this question25.What is the person who carries a player's bag and gives advice called?
Answer: A caddie
Open this question26.Which major championship is run by the United States Golf Association?
Answer: The U.S. Open
Open this question27.At the 2019 Masters, which golfer won his fifth green jacket and fifteenth major title?
Answer: Tiger Woods
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