Golf
Major tournaments
- The inaugural British Open is won by Willie Park senior at Prestwick Golf Club. The tournament is initially limited to professional players but will be "open" in 1861.
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Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“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)
“Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.”
—Franklin Pierce Adams (1881–1960)
“If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.”
—Paul Gallico (1897–1976)