Which golf major championship is always played at the Augusta National Golf Club?

The correct answer is B, The Open Championship. Often called the British Open, it was first played in 1860 and is the oldest of the majors; it is run by The R&A and its trophy is the Claret Jug. Option A is wrong because the Masters is the youngest of the four, dating from 1934. Option C is wrong because the PGA Championship began in 1916. Option D is wrong because the U.S. Open began in 1895, which makes it older than the other two American majors but still younger than The Open. The order of founding, 1860, 1895, 1916 and 1934, is worth memorising, because questions are set both on the oldest and on the newest major. Remember too that The Open is the only major played outside the United States each year.

The correct answer is A, the United States and Europe. The Ryder Cup is the biennial match play contest named after the English seed merchant Samuel Ryder, first played in 1927; the European side was originally Great Britain alone and was widened to the whole of Europe in 1979, and no prize money is paid to the players. Option B is wrong because no major team trophy is played between the United States and Asia. Option C is wrong because the Great Britain and Ireland side plays the United States in the amateur Walker Cup and Curtis Cup, not Australia. Option D is wrong because the Presidents Cup, begun in 1994, is the one between the United States and an International team of players from outside Europe, and it is this pair that candidates most often swap.

The correct answer is B, Arjun Atwal. Atwal won the Wyndham Championship in 2010 and so became the first golfer from India to win on the PGA Tour, the premier professional circuit of the United States. Option A is wrong because Jeev Milkha Singh's firsts are different ones: he was the first Indian to earn a European Tour card and the first to enter the top fifty of the world rankings, and he topped the Asian Tour Order of Merit twice. Option C is wrong because Anirban Lahiri's distinction is being the first Indian selected for the Presidents Cup, in 2015, the year he won the Asian Tour Order of Merit. Option D is wrong because Jyoti Randhawa won the Asian Tour Order of Merit in 2002 but no PGA Tour event. Each name carries its own first, so learn them as pairs.

The correct answer is B, Eagle. The bird names rise with the achievement: one stroke under par on a hole is a birdie, two under is an eagle and three under is an albatross or double eagle. Option A is wrong because a birdie is only one under par, the commonest of these scores. Option C is wrong because a bogey is the opposite, one stroke more than par, and two over par is a double bogey. Option D is wrong because an albatross is three under par, so rare that most professionals never record one. A hole completed from the tee in a single stroke is a hole in one or an ace, which on a par three hole is also an eagle by this scale. Papers set this question in both directions, giving the name and asking the score or giving the score and asking the name.

The correct answer is B, Royal Calcutta Golf Club. Founded in 1829, it is the oldest golf club in India and the oldest anywhere outside Great Britain, and it was given the title Royal in 1911. Option A is wrong because the Delhi Golf Club, host of many editions of the Indian Open, dates from the middle of the twentieth century. Option C is wrong because the Bombay club, though also an old colonial institution, came after Calcutta. Option D is wrong because the Bangalore Golf Club was founded towards the end of the nineteenth century. The club's date is a favourite static GK question, often paired with the Indian Golf Union of 1955, which governs amateur golf, and the Professional Golf Tour of India of 2006, which runs the professional circuit in the country.