Golf
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament – Tommy Aaron
- U.S. Open – Johnny Miller
- British Open – Tom Weiskopf
- PGA Championship – Jack Nicklaus
- PGA Tour money leader – Jack Nicklaus – $308,362
- Ryder Cup – United States won 19–13 over Britain & Ireland in team golf.
Men's amateur
- British Amateur – Dick Siderowf
- U.S. Amateur – Craig Stadler
Women's professional
- LPGA Championship – Mary Mills
- U.S. Women's Open – Susie Berning
- LPGA Tour money leader – Kathy Whitworth – $82,864
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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)
“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)