Golf
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament - Tiger Woods becomes the first golfer in history to hold all four major championship titles at the same time.
- U.S. Open - Retief Goosen
- British Open - David Duval
- PGA Championship - David Toms
- PGA Tour money leader - Tiger Woods - $5,687,777
- PGA Tour Player of the Year - Tiger Woods
- PGA Tour Rookie of the Year - Charles Howell III
- Senior PGA Tour money leader - Allen Doyle - $2,553,582
- Ryder Cup postponed until 2002.
Men's amateur
- British Amateur - Michael Hoey
- U.S. Amateur - Bubba Dickerson
- European Amateur - Stephen Browne
Women's professional
- Nabisco Championship - Annika Sörenstam
- LPGA Championship - Karrie Webb
- U.S. Women's Open - Karrie Webb
- Women's British Open - Se Ri Pak
- LPGA Tour money leader - Annika Sörenstam - $2,105,868
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