1996 in Sports - Golf

Golf

Men's professional

• Masters Tournament - Nick Faldo
• U.S. Open - Steve Jones
• British Open - Tom Lehman
• PGA Championship - Mark Brooks
• PGA Tour money leader - Tom Lehman - $1,780,159
• Senior PGA Tour money leader - Jim Colbert - $1,627,890
• Tiger Woods turns professional in September. In the last five regular tournaments of the year on the PGA Tour, his finishes were T5-T3-1-3-1, placing him among the tour's top 30 money-winners for the year and thereby qualifying him for the season-ending The Tour Championship. Woods named the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year.

Men's amateur

• British Amateur - Warren Bladon
• U.S. Amateur - Tiger Woods becomes the first golfer to win three consecutive U.S. Amateur titles. This was the sixth consecutive year in which he won a USGA championship, one short of Bobby Jones' record of seven.
• European Amateur - Daniel Olsson

Women's professional

• Nabisco Dinah Shore - Patty Sheehan
• LPGA Championship - Laura Davies
• U.S. Women's Open - Annika Sörenstam
• Classique du Maurier - Laura Davies
• LPGA Tour money leader - Karrie Webb - $1,002,000 - becomes the first ever woman to earn more than a million dollars in one golf season.
• The United States team retained the Solheim Cup beating the European team 17 to 11.