Golf
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament – Sam Snead
- PGA Championship – Sam Snead
- U.S. Open – Cary Middlecoff
- British Open – Bobby Locke
Men's amateur
- British Amateur – Samuel McCready
- U.S. Amateur – Charles Coe
Women's professional
- Women's Western Open – Louise Suggs
- U.S. Women's Open – Louise Suggs
- Titleholders Championship – Peggy Kirk
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Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.”
—Frank Butler (1890–1967)
“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)