By Dan Jenkins January 2000

Golf Digest Writer at-Large Dan Jenkins puts your golf knowledge to the test and asks the question ... what was Jesper Parnevik considering naming his daughter before deciding on "Pebble Beach?" And why did Jose Maria Olazabal punch a hotel room wall and break his hand?

It was a dark and stormy night, and the evil howl of Golf Quiz VI could be heard throughout the forest:

Sergio Garcia's dangerous tree-stump 6-iron shot in the PGA at Medinah was:

(a) The Shot Heard Round the World.
(b) The Shot Heard Round the Mayo Clinic.
(c) The Shot Heard Round the Home for the Criminally Insane.

Names considered by Jesper Parnevik for his daughter before deciding on "Pebble Beach":

(a) Merion.
(b) Hazel Tina.
(c) Myrtle Beach.
(d) Charlotte Country Club.

The Europeans accused the following of disrupting Jose Maria Olazabal at the Ryder Cup in Brookline, Mass.:

(a) The Boston Red Sox.
(b) The Boston Marathon.
(c) The New England Patriots.
(d) Paul Revere.
(e) The Abominable Tour Wife.

The message Phil Mickelson was expecting if his beeper went off during the U.S. Open with wife Amy expecting their first child:

(a) "Philip, it's Amy! Baby time!"
(b) "Phil, it's Johnny Miller! Time you made a putt in a major!"
(c) "Phil, it's the pressroom! If you WD with the lead, can we write the screenplay?"

The biggest hazard at Carnoustie:

(a) The Firth of Tay.
(b) The Loch Ness Monster.
(c) Americans heckling Colin Montgomerie.
(d) The superintendent.

Jack Nicklaus designed his artificial hip to resemble:

(a) The Road Hole at St. Andrews.
(b) The Swilcan Bridge.
(c) The Arc de Triomphe.
(d) Arnold Palmer.

The biggest break of the year:

(a) Phoenix Open ruling that a large boulder was not "solidly embedded" and could be removed by Tiger Woods' gallery.
(b) British Open ruling that Jean Van de Velde's brain was not "solidly embedded" and could be removed by Paul Lawrie's gallery.

What was the math puzzle Jesper Parnevik had on his mind when he missed a two-foot putt?

(a) "If you put a rope around the 25,000-mile circumference of the Earth and then placed another rope three feet higher, how much longer would the second rope be?"
(b) "How many Swedes does it take to screw up a two-foot putt?"

On the last hole of the British Open, Jean Van de Velde's 7 captured the hearts of:

(a) The Marx Brothers.
(b) The Three Stooges.
(c) The French Foreign Legion.
(d) The Honourable Company of Carnoustie Undertakers.

What was it when John Huston, Andrew Magee, Jeff Maggert and Steve Pate made it to the semifinals of the first World Golf Championship match-play event?

(a) The debut of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players.
(b) ABC's worst nightmare.
(c) The end of civilization as we know it.

The main reason Arnold Palmer became a full-fledged member at Augusta National:

(a) He finally decided it has a better layout than Latrobe.
(b) He's just got this thing about green coats.
(c) He wants to blackball Jack Nicklaus.

Earl Woods made headlines when he said Scotland was:

(a) Miserable.
(b) Godforsaken.
(c) A sewer.
(d) A perfectly lovely place to freeze to death.

At what point in 1999 did Mark O'Meara, the Player of the Year in 1998, become Mark O'Meara again?

(a) When he didn't repeat in the Masters.
(b) When he didn't repeat in the British Open.
(c) When he was asked to win a clutch point for America in the Ryder Cup and promptly went Dixie.
(d) When Tiger Woods moved into a condo in Manhattan Beach, Calif.

Why Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal punched a hotel-room wall and broke his hand at the U.S. Open:

(a) Had a bad feeling about his first-round 75.
(b) Had a bad feeling about Pinehurst's greens.
(c) Had a bad feeling about the mint on his pillow.

What happened after Tiger Woods told Fluff Cowan to take the week off so a buddy could earn money for med school:

(a) Tiger won the tournament.
(b) Tiger bought the medical school.
(c) Tiger had Fluff surgically removed from the payroll.

What happened when Greg Norman's roofer was charged with stealing two sets of clubs:

(a) The man won a major with each set, matching Greg's career total.
(b) The roof fell in on Greg again at the Masters.
(c) Greg botched the British Open when he reached for a sand wedge and pulled out a staple gun.

How 1999 went for Seve Ballesteros, Buzz Taylor and Matt Kuchar's father:

(a) Who?
(b) Who?
(c) Who?