Top 10 tour pro food names

There’s plenty of serious stuff on the GM website, but our Top 10 tour pro food names is unashamedly just a bit of fun. Other suggestions welcome…

With a little bit of imagination and a touch too much time on your hands, it’s amazing what you sometimes come up with… like this lighthearted but ultimately frivolous attempt at the Top 10 tour pro food names …

1. Gregory SmorgasBourdy

Top marks go to the in-form four-time winner from France with just a little nod to his Scandinavian tour colleagues.

2. Hennie RisOtto

The South African’s name lends itself to the creamy rice dish best served steaming hot, which is what Hennie has been known to get under the collar from time to time. Otto is enjoying a bit of a renaissance after some lean times earlier this century, picking off all three of his tour wins since 2008

3. Marco Crespi Pancake

Yes, we could have just gone with Crespi Duck for the reigning NH Collection Open champion, but thought we give a little nod to the past for our older readers. Remember those various flavoured Birds Eye and Findus Crispy Pancakes from decades ago – the staple diet of many a 1970s teenager?

4. Eddie Salt & Pepperell

We bet the Abingdon man - one of the European Tour’s brightest prospects - never heard this one at school.

5. Craig Lee & Perrins

The Scot, who really established himself on tour with 2^nd place in the 2013 Omega European Masters, gets one of the world’s most famous sauces onto our list.

6. Nick Faldoughnut

Despite his phenomenal record as a player, many felt Sir Nick was a bit of a doughnut when it came to the Ryder Cup captaincy in 2008.

7. Chicken DanZach Johnson

The 2007 Masters champion is the only curry to make it onto our list.

8. Cheesy Chips Beck

Beck was a solid PGA Tour campaigner for many years. Best remembered for being just the second man to shoot 59 on the PGA Tour in Las Vegas in 1991… and that famous lay-up on 15 at Augusta when fighting it out for the Green Jacket with Bernhard Langer in 1993.

9. John Sausage Rollins

The Virginian has won three times on tour and enjoyed many good seasons, but has gone off the boil since 2014.

10. David Frosties

One of golf’s most travelled campaigners went first from South Africa to Europe, then America, then back to Europe and then back to America. He’s won regularly wherever he’s been, most recently five Champions Tour victories in the States and two successive European Senior Tour wins in Mauritius.