Golf
Events
- Bobby Jones becomes the first golfer to win the British and US Open titles in the same year.
Major tournaments
- British Open – Bobby Jones
- US Open – Bobby Jones
- USPGA Championship – Walter Hagen
Other tournaments
- British Amateur – Jess Sweetser
- US Amateur – George Von Elm
Read more about this topic: 1926 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“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)
“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)