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NC Golf History Quiz
*all golfers mentioned herein
are native North Carolinians or played their college golf in NC.
Some are male and some are female.
1) Name the NC golf legend who, in 1947, raised $5000.00 for the
March of Dimes during the height of the polio epidemic by playing
golf cross country from Lexington, NC to the Thomasville Golf
Course in a neighboring city....a distance of 10 miles?
(Give yourself bonus points if you can name the total number of
strokes required to accomplish the task. He was allowed to tee up on
every shot except those that found water or ditches. On these shots,
he had to take penalty strokes.)
2) Can you name the first woman to be inducted into the World Golf
Teachers Hall of Fame?
3) Which living legend of the game, elected to the North Carolina
Sports Hall of Fame in 1992, broke the color barrier on the PGA tour
in 1961?
4) Can you name the NC Hall of Famer who's record for Most
Consecutive Match-Play Victories in the United States Amateur
Championships (17 in '55,'56 and '58)(he didn't compete in '57)
stood for over 40 years until being broken by Tiger Woods in '96?
5) Who's the only golfer to ever win both the PGA Tour AND the
Senior PGA Tour in the same year (1992)?
6) Who was the previously unheralded lumber salesman from Morganton
who finished third at the 1954 Masters in his first start
at Augusta? (His third place finish is still a record for
first time amateurs at the Masters)
7) Which All-American basketball player also played in the 1935 U.S.
Open and the 1941 U.S. Amateur championships in golf? He was also
the first golf coach at a major NC university. Can you name the man
and the school?
8) Which former NC collegiate golfer now holds a Honorary Doctor of
Laws degree from his alma mater?
9) Which NC native holds an unprecedented record of 10 NC State
Amateur titles in the 1950s and 1960s?
10) Who's the NC native who won two consecutive U.S. Amateur
Championships?
Editors note:
If you were able to answer more than four of these questions....you
must either be a very old North Carolina golf MANIAC or you cheated
and looked it up!
Answers:
1) Dugan Aycock
2) Peggy Kirk Bell
3) Charlie Sifford
4) E. Harvie Ward
5) Raymond Floyd
6) Billy Joe Patton
7) Al Dowtin
8) Arnold Palmer
9) Marge Burns
10) E. Harvie Ward |
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