July 16, 2008
It’s Wednesday, July 16th and you might win a British Open prize package - today on GolfNow’s trivia contest.
Hi, everyone, Keri Murphy here with another edition of GolfNow’s trivia contest at the halfway point of our British Open theme week and our featured course for today is Little Bennett Golf Course in Clarksburg, Maryland which is just one of more than 1,000 courses in over 20 states that make up our GolfNow network.
Left-handed golfers are certainly more common these days than they were in the past and a few of them have even won in a major tournament, and that leads us to today’s trivia question, which is:
Who is the only left-handed player to win the British Open? Is it:
A. Bob Charles
B. Mike Weir
C.Phil Mickelson
D. Nick O’Hearn
Just go to the entry form at GolfNow.com to submit your answer and tomorrow, we’ll tell you which lefty won the British Open and, if your answer was correct, then you will add one more entry into our computer for our daily drawings. Okay, let’s find out the answer to our question from yesterday’s show, which was:
Who was the first golfer to break 70 in each round of The British Open?
The first time that anyone broke 70 during the British Open was in 1904 at Royal St. George’s when not just one, but three golfers shot in the 60’s – including that year’s champion, Scottish professional Jack White, who shot a 69 in the final round for his lowest score of the tournament, along with J.H. Taylor who shot a 68 in the final round and James Braid, who was technically the first golfer to break 70 when he shot a 69 in the third round. Then, almost 90 years later at the 1993 Open - which was once again held at Royal St. George’s - Greg Norman won his second Claret Jug with scores of 66-68-69 and 64. BUT … it was actually Ernie Els, who played before Norman in the final round that year, who has the distinction of being the first player to shoot below 70 in all four rounds with scores of 68, 69, 69 and 68.
So, if you answered C – then you were right, which means that you now have one more entry into our computer for our daily drawings and our prize today is another British Open prize package which also includes the book, Golf, As It Was In The Beginning – the Legendary British Open courses. Okay, computer, show me today’s winner:
And our winner today is James Lee of Riverside, California. Congratulations, James, and now, to claim this great British Open prize, just send an e-mail to me at keri@golfnow.com within the next 30 days and we will send your prize out to you.
Why wait for the weekend to play golf? With the long days of summer in full swing – no pun intended – why not to get in a round or two during the middle of the week and, to make it even better, you can save when you book your tee times online with us at GolfNow.com!! I’m Keri Murphy and I’ll see you again tomorrow here on GolfNow’s Trivia Contest.
