Golf
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament - Sam Snead
- U.S. Open - Ed Furgol
- British Open - Peter Thomson
- PGA Championship - Chick Harbert
- PGA Tour money leader - Bob Toski - $65,820
Men's amateur
- British Amateur - Douglas Bachli
- U.S. Amateur - Arnold Palmer
Women's professional
- Women's Western Open - Betty Jameson
- U.S. Women's Open - Babe Zaharias
- Titleholders Championship - Louise Suggs
- LPGA Tour money leader - Patty Berg - $16,011
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Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“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)
“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)