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          Ask Steven: Who is the only male golfer to win an event on the Ladies' PGA Tour in America?

          Sam Snead holds the record for most PGA Tour wins -- three ahead of Tiger Woods on 79 Underwood Archives/Getty Images
          • Steven Lynch, Editor of the updated edition of Wisden on the AshesNov 3, 2015, 12:07 PM
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              Steven Lynch won the Wisden Cricket Monthly Christmas Quiz three years running before the then-editor said "I can't let you win it again, but would you like a job?" That lasted for 15 years, before he moved across to the Wisden website when that was set up in 2000. Following the merger of the two sites early in 2003 he was appointed as the global editor of Wisden Cricinfo. In June 2005 he became the deputy editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. He continues to contribute the popular weekly "Ask Steven" question-and-answer column on ESPNcricinfo, and edits the Wisden Guide to International Cricket.

          Who is the only male golfer to win an event on the Ladies' PGA Tour in America? Keith Jenkins, England

          Remarkably, there actually is an answer to this question...

          In 1962, the Ladies' PGA Tour included the Royal Poinciana Plaza Invitational tournament, on a development in Palm Beach.

          Sam Snead, who ended his career with 82 victories on the regular American Tour -- more than anyone else -- received a special invitation to take part, and ended up winning by five strokes! He's the only man to win an event on the LPGA Tour.

          Snead won around $2,000 for his victory, but apparently needed the cash -- during the tournament one of the lady golfers apparently ran his boat aground, causing some damage to the hull.

          This was the second and last year of this particular event. In 1961 Snead was among several male participants, but that time it was won by a woman player, Louise Suggs.