Answers for The Great Chicagoland Golf Golf Test No. 2
1.) B-TaylorMade
2.) C-McHenry
3.) B-Gary Adams
4.) D-Ron Streck, at the 1981 Houston Open
5.) C-Bernard Darwin, legendary golf writer
6.) C-Karsten Solheim, of Ping Manufacturing
7.) A-Frank Thomas
8.) C-The [Harry] Vardon Grip
9.) B-Bon Air, the former Columbian CC, now known as Tradition at Chevy Chase
10.) C-Lasker Golf Club
11.) B-Hillside Golf Course
12.) C-Henry J. Whigham, who also won the 1896 and 1897 U.S. Amateur Championships
13.) A-Ralph Guldahl, from 1936-1938
14.) C-Chicago Golf, the only Chicago course to host three Opens
15.) B-Wynstone
16.) D-Acushnet
17.) D-Callaway
18.) C-Form a pile of wet sand to be used to tee the ball.
19.) A-Carol Mann
20.) D-Len Ziehm
21.) D-Jay Haas
22.) A-Mills Novelty Co.
23.) D-Downers Grove Golf Course (original site of Chicago Golf Club, 1892)
24.) A-Pipe O'Peace
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25.) A-Westward Ho!
26.) C-Peau Doux
27.) A-Pet bulldog
28.) C-Polara
Answers for Great Chicagoland Golf Golf Test No. 1
1) b-Charles Blair Macdonald, founder of Chicago Golf Club, first golf course west of the Alleghenies.
2) c-Jackson Park Golf Course.
3) d-Charles "Chick" Evans, founder of Evans Scholars Foundation – later administered by Western GA.
4) d-Fresh Meadow, and NOT Fresh Meadows as too commonly seen.
5) a-Laramie Country Club
6) d-Barrington's Gary Hallberg
7) a-Illinois PGA pro and former Tour player Gary Pinns.
8) b-Oklahoma State's Scott Verplank beat Jim Thorpe in a playoff in 1985. Jim Benepe of Northwestern won the '88 Western, off a sponsor exemption in his first pro tour event. He never won again.
9) b-Pat Bradley
10) a-Nancy Lopez
11) d-a winding, running creek
12) b-13 original Rules of Golf, in the days before lawyers got their hands on the game.
13) b-St. Andrews was not owned by the Archdiocese; the other three courses were all at one time leased to Jemsek Golf.
14) d-Dick Nugent and Ken Killian, who also did Kemper Lakes about the same time.
15) a-Brent Wadsworth chose to build courses, and now heads up the world's largest golf course construction company, Wadsworth Golf Construction Co. headquartered in Plainfield, Ill.
16) b-Old Oak Golf Course was formerly known as Kinsman's and El Dorado.
17) b-Golf Club of Illinois pioneered the "American Links" style. It was designed by Dick Nugent and Bruce Borland, who was killed in the 1999 plane crash that also took Payne Stewart's life.
18) c-Village Links of Glen Ellyn
19) b-Nos. 1 and 2 – although No. 1 course has today eight holes of the original course, holes 1-4 and 15-18. The middle 10 holes were originally part of No. 3 course, which was built because owner Joe Jemsek wanted a "championship test" which could someday host a big event. Before No. 3 was finished, though, Joe realized it wasn't turning out to be what he envisioned so he hired Dick Wilson and Joe Lee to build No. 4, Dubsdread. So answer "d- 2 and 3" could also be an acceptable answer.
20) a-Kemper Lakes
21) a-Exmoor
22) c-Cedardell
23) c- Fox Bend, built by Brent Wadsworth/John Cotter to aid their budding construction company.
