Manzella's Utimate Trivia Test - With a Prize!
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1. Draw
2. Tom Watson
3. Perry Maxwell
4. Mike Shannon
5. David Toms
6. Uniroyal Plus 6... called that because the design was supposed to give you 6 more yards although it was in height.
7. Carl Johnson
8. Jeffery Vincent Bamber was inventor.Karsten Solheim changed the molds to Berylium Copper afterwards.
9. Gregg McHatton
10. Slazenger model Nicklaus and Player.
2. Tom Watson
3. Perry Maxwell
4. Mike Shannon
5. David Toms
6. Uniroyal Plus 6... called that because the design was supposed to give you 6 more yards although it was in height.
7. Carl Johnson
8. Jeffery Vincent Bamber was inventor.Karsten Solheim changed the molds to Berylium Copper afterwards.
9. Gregg McHatton
10. Slazenger model Nicklaus and Player.
Brian Manzella
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All the answers but 2....
1. A Perfectly straight ball looks like what to the golfer?
1. A Perfectly straight ball looks like what to the golfer?
It looks like a slight draw.
Imagine looking at the St. Louis Arch. From dead on line behind the arch, it looks like a straight board soaring into the sky. But, from the side, where a golfer is standing in relation to the golf ball—and straight ball target line—you are looking THROUGH the arch, toward the downside of it, and it looks like a little left curve. A slight draw. Stance, open or closed, makes ZERO difference.
2. Which golfer who won two majors in one year with illegal balls and irons?Imagine looking at the St. Louis Arch. From dead on line behind the arch, it looks like a straight board soaring into the sky. But, from the side, where a golfer is standing in relation to the golf ball—and straight ball target line—you are looking THROUGH the arch, toward the downside of it, and it looks like a little left curve. A slight draw. Stance, open or closed, makes ZERO difference.
Tom Watson’s Ram “Tour Grind” irons, and Ram ball were both found to be illegal at times later in the year. Of course Tom had no idea….
Watson infamously threw the ball he holed on Pebble Beach’s 18th to beat Jack Nicklaus by two, into the Pacific Ocean. The putt was going downhill mighty fast.
Watson also is the person who called Gary Player for moving a leaf from under his ball in the Skins Game.
3. Who designed and built the "St. John's" old #1 course at City Park in New Orleans?Watson infamously threw the ball he holed on Pebble Beach’s 18th to beat Jack Nicklaus by two, into the Pacific Ocean. The putt was going downhill mighty fast.
Watson also is the person who called Gary Player for moving a leaf from under his ball in the Skins Game.
Famous Architects like Perry Maxwell did do work for the WPA, but the City Park #1 course, was not one of them. The name escapes me, but I know it wasn’t Maxwell. I have worked at City Park in one fashion or another, since 1974, and I started working for Henry Thomas, who was the pro there 53 years, and knew so many things it would amaze you. Goofy me, I never asked him about the #1 course “designer.”
But, officially, it was designed and built by the United States Federal Government’s Works Progress Administration.
The WPA.
4. He shares City Park South Course record of 59 (9 under par) with Brian Manzella...But, officially, it was designed and built by the United States Federal Government’s Works Progress Administration.
The WPA.
No one has answered this one yet….
I did “tie myself” with a second 59 about a year after the first one, in 1996. But the golfer we are looking for is older than I, a City “Pawka” like myself, and was an Authorized Instructor of The Golf Machine and a PGA Gulf States Section Teacher of the Year. He is not an current AI (I’ll have to ask him why), but he is a “google-able” person.
When I started playing a lot again in 1994, I wrote down some goals for low scores on my “rota” of New Orleans courses. 59 on “The South,” was one of them. The second 59 was the best ball striking round of the two, and could have easily challenged the World-Record low score of 55 by Homero Blancas when he played for the University of Houston. The course was easier that the South bu all accounts.
On another long gone New Orleans par 68, the old Audubon Park Course, Stan Stopa shot a 56, one off the record. Audubon played a few shots harder than the South, was 900 yards longer, and my best score there was only 64. Tom Bartlett shot a 58 at Audubon .
Tom was 9-under with 4 to play at the South one day, and did not finish the round because he had time constraints. Now the course is gone and unless it is ever re-opened, the record stands for me and…???
5. He beat Runner-Up Michael Finney to win "Junior Major"...I did “tie myself” with a second 59 about a year after the first one, in 1996. But the golfer we are looking for is older than I, a City “Pawka” like myself, and was an Authorized Instructor of The Golf Machine and a PGA Gulf States Section Teacher of the Year. He is not an current AI (I’ll have to ask him why), but he is a “google-able” person.
When I started playing a lot again in 1994, I wrote down some goals for low scores on my “rota” of New Orleans courses. 59 on “The South,” was one of them. The second 59 was the best ball striking round of the two, and could have easily challenged the World-Record low score of 55 by Homero Blancas when he played for the University of Houston. The course was easier that the South bu all accounts.
On another long gone New Orleans par 68, the old Audubon Park Course, Stan Stopa shot a 56, one off the record. Audubon played a few shots harder than the South, was 900 yards longer, and my best score there was only 64. Tom Bartlett shot a 58 at Audubon .
Tom was 9-under with 4 to play at the South one day, and did not finish the round because he had time constraints. Now the course is gone and unless it is ever re-opened, the record stands for me and…???
When Michael got back from south Florida after finishing second to my future student David Toms in the PGA Junior, I asked him, “How did you let this guy beat you”?
Michael responded, “He hits it longer and straighter than me off the tee, hits his irons closer, has a better short game, and is a better putter.”
Michael can hit it past DT these days, and could when they played together at LSU, but I don’t think David worries about it much.
6. The first golf ball with Hex dimples was...Michael responded, “He hits it longer and straighter than me off the tee, hits his irons closer, has a better short game, and is a better putter.”
Michael can hit it past DT these days, and could when they played together at LSU, but I don’t think David worries about it much.
The Royal Plus 6 was the first “Hex dimple” golf ball, and was introduced in the early 70’s.
There was a famous commercial for the ball, where a machine with one block of steel was “fired” for only a couple of inches, and hit the Plus 6 and the Titleist of the day. The Royal won, of course, but it did show that Homer Kelley’s line of compression theory had merit. The only thing the ball knows is the “Bullet hole” put “in it” by the golf club head.
7. Who else wrote part of "The Golfing Machines" Chapter 2?There was a famous commercial for the ball, where a machine with one block of steel was “fired” for only a couple of inches, and hit the Plus 6 and the Titleist of the day. The Royal won, of course, but it did show that Homer Kelley’s line of compression theory had merit. The only thing the ball knows is the “Bullet hole” put “in it” by the golf club head.
This is REAL trivia. I didn’t know it myself until this year.
It was not any AI, past or present, and was not Carl Jonson a friend of the Kelly’s or Sally.
It was not any AI, past or present, and was not Carl Jonson a friend of the Kelly’s or Sally.
But who…????
8. Who invented "Feather Light" golf clubs?
Dave Pelz’s company “marketed” the revolutionary clubs under the “Featherlite” brand name.
The Bramber gentleman may have had part of a patent, but Precision Shaft’s Kim Braly invented the concept.
The Bramber gentleman may have had part of a patent, but Precision Shaft’s Kim Braly invented the concept.
The man who popularized “Frequency Matching” found a way to make the club very light and have the same "Frequency" by using lightweight, more "Flex Board" flexible shafts.
They flopped after about two years, and Cal Peete and Ray Floyd wasted a season or two trying them.
The footnote that Karsten used Ping's EZ LITE's molds usable as standard Ping weighted head by using Beryllium Copper to increase the weight from 17-4 stainless, is very interesting. Many people thought the metal was somehow, better than 17-4.
9. TGM AI who did win a "Junior Major"...They flopped after about two years, and Cal Peete and Ray Floyd wasted a season or two trying them.
The footnote that Karsten used Ping's EZ LITE's molds usable as standard Ping weighted head by using Beryllium Copper to increase the weight from 17-4 stainless, is very interesting. Many people thought the metal was somehow, better than 17-4.
Gregg McHatton, G.S.E.D., won the 1964 US Junior. He became a top teacher, and can really “dump it” on the ball.
10. Two Famous Golfers who's names appeared on Ping Putters are...
Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus under a co-branding deal with Slazenger.
Brian Manzella
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One to go....
Bobby Crestman, a very good player for a long time, also shot 9-under par on the old City Park South Course.
So...there is only one to go....first correct answer wins...
Bobby Crestman, a very good player for a long time, also shot 9-under par on the old City Park South Course.
So...there is only one to go....first correct answer wins...
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