Golf
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament - Tom Watson
- U.S. Open - David Graham
- British Open - Bill Rogers
- PGA Championship - Larry Nelson
- PGA Tour money leader - Tom Kite - $375,699
- Senior PGA Tour money leader - Miller Barber - $83,136
- Ryder Cup - United States win 18½ to 9½ over Europe in team golf.
Men's amateur
- British Amateur - Phillipe Ploujoux
- U.S. Amateur - Nathaniel Crosby
Women's professional
- LPGA Championship - Donna Caponi
- U.S. Women's Open - Pat Bradley
- Classique Peter Jackson Classic - Jan Stephenson
- LPGA Tour money leader - Beth Daniel - $206,998
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Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“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)
“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)
“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)