Golf
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament - Nick Faldo
- U.S. Open - Hale Irwin
- British Open - Nick Faldo
- PGA Championship - Wayne Grady
- PGA Tour money leader - Greg Norman - $1,165,477
- Senior PGA Tour money leader - Lee Trevino - $1,190,518
Men's amateur
- British Amateur - Rolf Muntz
- U.S. Amateur - Phil Mickelson
- European Amateur - Klas Erikson
Women's professional
- Nabisco Dinah Shore - Betsy King
- U.S. Women's Open - Betsy King
- LPGA Championship - Beth Daniel
- Classique du Maurier - Cathy Johnston-Forbes
- LPGA Tour money leader - Beth Daniel - $863,578
- The inaugural Solheim Cup match was won by the United States who beat Europe 11½ - 4½
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Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.”
—Frank Butler (1890–1967)
“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)