Golf
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament - Tom Watson
- U.S. Open - Hubert Green
- British Open - Tom Watson
- PGA Championship - Lanny Wadkins
- PGA Tour money leader - Tom Watson - $310,653
- Ryder Cup - United States won 12½ -7½ over Britain & Ireland in team golf. This was the last Ryder Cup to feature a side exclusively from the British Isles; the U.S. opponents in the next Ryder Cup, held in 1979 at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, would be drawn from all of Europe. The U.S.-Europe format has continued ever since.
Men's amateur
- British Amateur - Peter McEvoy
- U.S. Amateur - John Fought
Women's professional
- LPGA Championship - Chako Higuchi
- U.S. Women's Open - Hollis Stacy
- LPGA Tour money leader - Judy Rankin - $122,890
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Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“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)
“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)
“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)