Golf
- July 24 – Tony Lema (32), American golf champion, died in an air crash at Munster, Indiana
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament - Jack Nicklaus
- U.S. Open - Billy Casper
- British Open - Jack Nicklaus becomes the fourth player to win all four major professional championships.
- PGA Championship - Al Geiberger
- PGA Tour money leader - Billy Casper - $121,945
Men's amateur
- British Amateur - Bobby Cole
- U.S. Amateur - Gary Cowan
Women's professional
- Women's Western Open - Mickey Wright
- LPGA Championship - Gloria Ehret
- U.S. Women's Open - Sandra Spuzich
- Titleholders Championship - Kathy Whitworth
- LPGA Tour money leader - Kathy Whitworth - $33,517
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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)
“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)