1997 in Sports - Golf

Golf

Men's professional

  • Masters Tournament – Tiger Woods
  • U.S. Open – Ernie Els
  • British Open – Justin Leonard
  • PGA Championship – Davis Love III
  • PGA Tour money leader – Tiger Woods – $2,066,833
  • PGA Tour Player of the Year – Tiger Woods
  • PGA Tour Rookie of the Year – Stewart Cink
  • Senior PGA Tour money leader – Hale Irwin – $2,343,364
  • Ryder Cup – Europe won 14½–13½ over the United States in team golf.
  • Tiger Woods creates an uproar with his record 12-shot victory at the Masters, and becomes the first Masters winner of African-American descent. He set the record for the lowest to-par score of -18, and the lowest 72-hole score of 272. He also rises to the No. 1 ranking on June 15, in only his 42nd week as a professional – the fastest ascent to the No. 1 ranking.

Men's amateur

  • British Amateur – Craig Watson
  • U.S. Amateur – Matt Kuchar
  • European Amateur – Didier de Voogt

Women's professional

  • Nabisco Dinah Shore – Betsy King
  • LPGA Championship – Christa Johnson
  • U.S. Women's Open – Alison Nicholas
  • Classique du Maurier – Colleen Walker
  • LPGA Tour money leader – Annika Sörenstam – $1,236,789

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