Golf
Men's professional
- Major Championships
- Masters Tournament – Phil Mickelson wins the first major of his career.
- U.S. Open – Retief Goosen wins his second U.S. Open title
- British Open – Todd Hamilton, a virtual unknown, wins at Royal Troon in a playoff over Ernie Els
- PGA Championship – Vijay Singh wins in a three-hole playoff over Chris DiMarco and Justin Leonard.
- Team Europe defeats Team USA 18½ – 9½ to retain the Ryder Cup.
Men's amateur
- British Amateur – Stuart Wilson
- U.S. Amateur – Ryan Moore
- European Amateur – Matthew Richardson
Women's professional
- Kraft Nabisco Championship – Grace Park wins the first major of the LPGA season, by one shot over 17-year-old Aree Song. Michelle Wie finished fourth, four shots behind Park.
- LPGA Championship – Annika Sörenstam
- U.S. Women's Open – Meg Mallon
- Women's British Open – Karen Stupples
- LPGA Tour money leader – Annika Sörenstam – $2,544,707
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Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“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)
“Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.”
—Franklin Pierce Adams (1881–1960)
“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)