Golf
Major tournaments
- British Open – Bobby Jones
- US Open – Tommy Armour
- USPGA Championship – Walter Hagen
Ryder Cup
- Inaugural Ryder Cup is held at Worcester, Massachusetts: United States defeats Great Britain by 9½ to 2½.
Other tournaments
- British Amateur – William Tweddell
- US Amateur – Bobby Jones
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Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“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)
“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)