Name a golfer who has won The Open Championship: rare answers

We accept 92 answers to “Name a golfer who has won The Open Championship” in our Krillion practice game. Most players reach for Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Jack Nicklaus, which keeps them near the surface. Deep cuts such as Bob Martin, Jack White and William Auchterlonie score up to 100 points.

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Accepted answers: 92
Category: Sports
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 33 (36%)
Alternate spellings accepted: None needed
First letters: 23 different; J is the most common (14)

🐙 Abyssal: 11 answers (12%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 22 answers (24%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 28 answers (30%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 25 answers (27%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 6 answers (7%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

11 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of, including Bob Martin, Jack White, William Auchterlonie and Alf Padgham. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

Bob Martin, Jack White, William Auchterlonie, Alf Padgham, Alf Perry, Reg Whitcombe, Arthur Havers, David Brown, Jack Simpson, Jack Burns, Hugh Kirkaldy

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Henry Cotton, Willie Park Jr., John Henry Taylor, Bill Rogers, Mungo Park, Kel Nagle, Jock Hutchison, Fred Daly, Arnaud Massy, Harold Hilton, John Ball, Andrew Strath, Denny Shute, Jamie Anderson, Jim Barnes, Max Faulkner, Willie Fernie, Tom Kidd, George Duncan, Bob Ferguson, Sandy Herd, Dick Burton

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Gene Sarazen, Old Tom Morris, David Duval, Brian Harman, Young Tom Morris, Johnny Miller, Justin Leonard, Nick Price, Sandy Lyle, Mark O'Meara, Tom Lehman, Peter Thomson, Ben Curtis, Tom Weiskopf, Tony Jacklin, Mark Calcavecchia, Paul Lawrie, Ryan Fox, Todd Hamilton, Bob Charles, Ted Ray, Tommy Armour, Bobby Locke, Ian Baker-Finch, Roberto De Vicenzo, James Braid, Willie Park Sr., Tony Lema

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Scottie Scheffler, Seve Ballesteros, Gary Player, Greg Norman, Lee Trevino, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, John Daly, Nick Faldo, Xander Schauffele, Ernie Els, Tom Watson, Sam Snead, Collin Morikawa, Zach Johnson, Pádraig Harrington, Henrik Stenson, Francesco Molinari, Louis Oosthuizen, Walter Hagen, Darren Clarke, Shane Lowry, Cameron Smith, Harry Vardon, Stewart Cink

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.

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