Take our golfing quiz of the year
Take our golfing quiz of the year

The 2018 Sporting Life Golf Quiz: Test your knowledge with 30 questions


Remember the Masters par-three contest as well as you do the main event? Equally adept on the Web as you are the LPGA? Test your knowledge with our annual quiz.

  1. Name the four players who spent time at the top of the men's world rankings in 2018.
  2. There were three left-handed players who won on the PGA Tour in 2018. Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson, and who?
  3. Georgia Hall became the first English winner of the Women’s British Open since 2004, but who had she partnered in GolfSixes earlier in the year?
  4. Which two men fired sub-60 rounds on the two major golf tours, one in Europe and one in America?
  5. Which Irish golfer, a two-time top-three finisher in the States in 2018, also signed for Niall Horan's Modest! Golf management company this year?
  6. Europe romped to a convincing Ryder Cup win, but which four Americans won their singles matches?
  7. Name the Challenge Tour player who achieved Battlefield Promotion to the European Tour.
  8. Which two players shared medallist honours at European Tour Qualifying School?
  9. Aaron Wise was named PGA Tour Rookie of the Year having won in Texas. Which two fellow rookies also secured silverware this season?
  10. Dustin Johnson began the year with an eight-shot win in Hawaii. Which other player won by eight on the PGA Tour?
  11. Adrian Otaegui secured his second European Tour title in May. What is significant about the titles he has won?
  12. Lee Westwood won his 24th European Tour title, Sergio Garcia his 15th and Justin Rose his 12th, but which player moved to double figures with his 10th?
  13. Who became just the second Swede to win a ladies' major championship since Annika Sorenstam?
  14. Two Englishmen caused big shocks when winning on the Web.com Tour in 2018, but can you name them?
  15. Name the two players who won on both the Challenge Tour and European Tour in 2018, excluding co-sanctioned events.
  16. Which Dutch player averaged 282.53 yards in Driving Distance on the LET and won her final two events of the year by eight and three shots?
  17. Bernhard Langer dominated the Champions Tour stats, but who was second to him in scoring average?
  18. For the first time since 2013, Langer failed to win a seniors' major. Which two Europeans won three between them?
  19. Which two players switched nationality and to which countries, both having previously represented South Africa?
  20. Kiradech Aphibarnrat succeeded Brett Rumford in winning the World Super 6 in Perth, but which Aussie did he beat in the final?
  21. Excluding majors and WGCs, name the five golfers who won on home soil during the 2018 European Tour season, which began in November 2017.
  22. Who won the 'Majors Cup', the theoretical award given to the best 288-hole total of the players who made the cut in all four?
  23. Which player, who retired in 2018, waited 16 years between his first and second European Tour titles (2000 and 2016)?
  24. Who topped the Web.com Tour's regular-season standings, earning more that twice the points of Cameron Champ?
  25. Patton Kizzire and Brian Harman won the QBE Classic, but whose place in the December team event did the latter take?
  26. For the first time in five years, a European player won the US Amateur Championship. Can you name him?
  27. The Amateur Championship meanwhile went to Ernie Els' nephew. Can you name him?
  28. What is the profession of Matt Parziale, the US Mid-Am winner who finished 48th in the US Open having missed the cut at Augusta?
  29. Who took the Masters par-three contest, the event which takes place on the eve of the season's first major which nobody wants to win?
  30. And finally, Tiger Woods won the TOUR Championship. Who finished second?

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