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.
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“And the wind shall say: “Here were decent godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.””
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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?”
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