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Golf Trivia Fall 2024 Q&A

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QUESTIONS:

  1. What was the first North Shore club to offer golf as an activity?
  2. Who was the oldest man to reach the semifinals and win medalist honors at the Massachusetts Amateur?
  3. Before moving to its current location in 1926, Salem CC was located in Peabody and known as Salem Golf Club and later the North Shore Golf and Tennis Club, Sylvania CC and Peabody CC. Where was the course located?
  4. Who is the only North Shore player to win a U.S. Open?
  5. What steel magnate won the 1904 Massachusetts Amateur on his home course?
  6. Who was the first left-handed player to win the Massachusetts Open?
  7. Who won the inaugural LPGA Boston Five Classic at Ferncroft CC in 1980?
  8. This two-time U.S. Open Champion’s first professional victory came at Salem CC. Who was he and what tournament was it?
  9. How did Thomson CC get its name?
  10. This Beverly native has won many awards as one of the country’s top golf instructors and has coached such LPGA Tour legends as Jane Blalock, Nancy Lopez, Sandra Haynie and Pat Bradley. A member of the LPGA Professionals Hall of Fame, this person is a former LPGA Teacher of the Year and NEPGA Teacher of the Year. Who is it?
  11. Which U.S. president established his Summer White House in Beverly and frequently played at Myopia Hunt Club and Essex CC?
  12. Which Massachusetts native is a seven-time winner of the Mass Women’s Amateur (1988, 1991-1995, 2000)?
  13. This World Golf Hall of Fame member won 24 LPGA tour events and back-to-back U.S. Women’s Opens. She settled on the North Shore as her playing days wound down. Who is she and what club does she call home?
  14. Tedesco CC has hosted dozens of state Opens and Amateurs, but only two Tedesco members have won Mass. Amateur titles. Who are they?
  15. Beverly Golf & Tennis Club was originally a gift from which corporation as a thank-you to its hard-working employees?
  16. In 1960, this golfer who worked at the General Electric River Works in Lynn, won the Mass. Amateur championship at Tedesco CC. Can you name him?
  17. Mike Frangos, the longtime owner of a much-missed Beverly restaurant, in 1970 started a beloved charity golf event that continues to this day. What is its name?
  18. What is the North Shore’s longest-lived municipal golf course?

ANSWERS:

  1. Essex County Club in 1893. Myopia Hunt Club, founded in 1875, became the second a year later.
  2. Salem CC member Jack McNiff at the 1980 Mass Am at Salem, just four years after undergoing major cancer surgery. He was 62
  3. Margin Street in Peabody. The Archdiocese of Boston purchased the property to build Bishop Fenwick HS, which opened in 1958.
  4. Joe Lloyd, the golf professional at Essex CC, won the 1897 U.S. Open (the third) at Chicago Golf Club. The 27-year-old Englishman shot 162 to edge Willie Anderson by one shot.
  5. Essex CC member Andrew Carnegie II.
  6. Thomson Club golf professional Bill Flynn in 1963. He made two eagles and a birdie over the last six holes to close with a course-record 66 and post 1-over 211.
  7. Dale Lundquist, in the first of 11 LPGA tour stops at Ferncroft CC.
  8. Julius Boros won the 1951 Massachusetts Open. The following year, he won his first U.S. Open (Northwood Club in Dallas) and later went on to win the 1963 U.S. 
  9. Open at The Country Club in a three-way playoff with Jackie Cupit and Arnold Palmer.
  10. The club, founded in 2010 by a group of General Electric engineers, is named in honor of Dr. Elihu Thomson, a world-renowned scientist and co-founder of GE. (The club’s first home was in Lynn, before the club purchased the Nahant Club in 1946. It moved to its current North Reading location in 1961. 
  11. Jane Frost
  12. William Howard Taft
  13. Anne Marie Tobin 
  14. Donna Caponi-Byrnes is a member at Ferncroft CC.
  15. Former Tedesco and Mass Golf president Ted Carangelo won the 1955 amateur at Woodland GC. Barbara Thorner won the 1970 WGAM Association Championship at Tedesco over Beverly’s Paula Brophy.
  16. United Shoe Machinery Corp., whose Beverly factory was the largest in the world when it opened in 1905. It is still affectionately called “The Shoe” by many North Shore golfers.
  17. Pat Granese, whose Swampscott home was just down the road from Tedesco. After each victory, Granese, a Beverly G&TC member, phoned his boss at GE to let him know he wouldn’t be at work the next day.
  18. The Commodore Open, which has raised millions of dollars to benefit Danvers-based North Shore ARC.
  19. Gannon Municipal GC in Lynn, which was constructed in 1930-33 by some 800 local workers who otherwise might have been on the welfare rolls.