July 18, 2008
It’s Friday, July 18th and we’re giving away our final British Open prize package. Let’s find out if you’re our winner - today on Golf Now’s Trivia Contest.
Hey there, Keri Murphy with the final trivia question of our British Open theme week here on GolfNow.com and our featured course for today is Rhodes Ranch Golf Club in Las Vegas – another course in our GolfNow network where you can save when you book online with us at www.GolfNow.com - the #1 tee time website in the nation. Okay, let’s get right to our final British Open trivia question for the week, which is:
Who was the last champion of The British Open to have his score improve during/in every round?
A. Tiger Woods
B. Seve Ballasteros
C. Gary Player
D. Roberto De Vicenzo
Just mark your answer on the entry form at GolfNow.com and on Monday’s show, we’ll tell you who it was and we’ll see if your answer was correct and earned you another entry into our computer for our daily drawings. Now, let’s find out the answer to our British Open trivia question from yesterday’s show, which was:
Which three-time champion tore up his scorecard and walked off the course in his first appearance at The British Open? Was it:
Based on the first appearance that Bobby Jones made at the British Open, you wouldn’t have guessed that he would become one of the most beloved players in the history of this major, and of the town of St. Andrews, as well. Jones was just 19 when he played the Old Course for the first time during the Open of 1921 and wasn’t fond of the course. He played fairly well in the first two rounds but, during the third round, he became so disgusted with his performance after shooting a 46 on the first nine holes that, once he couldn’t get out of the Hill Bunker on the eleventh hole, he grabbed his ball, tore up his scorecard and withdrew. The reaction from the fans and the press was blistering and forced Jones to learn to control his emotions. He then returned to the British Open in 1926 for the first of two consecutive victories and made his mark in 1930 when he won both the British Amateur and British Opens before going on to become the first man to win the Grand Slam. Almost 30 years later, in 1958, he became only the second American after Benjamin Franklin to be presented with the honor of becoming a Freeman of the city of St. Andrews.**
So, if you answered A - then you were right and you’ve added one more entry into our computer for our daily drawings where you can win great golf prizes and today we’re giving away our last British Open prize package which includes a reproduction of a Currier & Ives artwork of Bobby Jones winning the British Open that was published in Fortune Magazine in 1930. Okay, computer, show me today’s winner:
And our winner today is Skip Harris of Tempe, Arizona. Congratulations, Skip, you’ve just won a great selection of British Open merchandise and, in order to claim this prize, all you have to do is send me an e-mail to me at Keri@golfnow.com within the next 30 days.
Okay, that wraps our British Open theme week here on GolfNow’s trivia contest.Thanks so much to everyone who played this week and congratulatoins to all of our winners plus a big thanks to girls golf for my wardrobe. There are just four more days until the premiere of Highway 18 on The Golf Channel and I can’t wait for you to see it so, I hope you can tune in this Tuesday at 10pm eastern time and check it out. I’m Keri Murphy, have a great weekend everyone and I’ll see you back again next week for more fun golf trivia and great golf prizes here on GolfNow.com – the #1 tee time website in the nation!
