Golf
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament – Jimmy Demaret
- U.S. Open – Lawson Little
- British Open – not played due to World War II
- PGA Championship – Byron Nelson
Men's amateur
- British Amateur – not played due to World War II
- U.S. Amateur – Dick Chapman
Women's professional
- Women's Western Open – Babe Zaharias
- Titleholders Championship – Helen Hicks
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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)
“Did I make you go insane?
Did I turn up your earphone and let a siren drive through?
Did I open the door for the mustached psychiatrist
who dragged you out like a golf cart?
Did I make you go insane?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“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)