Golf
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament - Doug Ford
- U.S. Open - Dick Mayer
- British Open - Bobby Locke
- PGA Championship - Lionel Hebert
- PGA Tour money leader - Dick Mayer - $65,835
- Ryder Cup - Britain wins 7½ to 4½ over the United States in team golf.
Men's amateur
- British Amateur - Reid Jack
- U.S. Amateur - Hillman Robbins
Women's professional
- Women's Western Open - Patty Berg
- LPGA Championship - Louise Suggs
- U.S. Women's Open - Betsy Rawls
- Titleholders Championship - Patty Berg
- LPGA Tour money leader - Patty Berg - $16,272
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Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“emerald as heavy
as a golf course, ruby as dark
as an afterbirth,
diamond as white as sun
on the sea ...”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.”
—Frank Butler (1890–1967)
“And the wind shall say “Here were decent godless people;
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.””
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)