Amateur Golf
- May 31 - June 3: NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships - Oklahoma State won the team event and Jonathan Moore of Oklahoma State was the leading individual
- 19–24 June: The Amateur Championship was won by 20-year-old Frenchman Julien Guerrier.
- 29–30 July: Curtis Cup - the USA defeated Great Britain & Ireland by 11.5 points to 6.5 points.
- 7–13 August: U.S. Women's Amateur - 14-year-old American Kimberly Kim of Hawaii became the youngest winner in the history of the event.
- 23–27 August: U.S. Amateur - Richie Ramsay became the first Scottish winner since Findlay Douglas in 1898 and the first British winner since Harold Hilton in 1911.
- 18–21 October: Espirito Santo Trophy (Women's Amateur World Team Championship) - South Africa won the tournament for the first time. They were the first home winners since 1980.
- 26–29 October: Eisenhower Trophy (Men's Amateur World Team Championship) - the Netherlands won for the first time.
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Famous quotes containing the words amateur and/or golf:
“I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
—Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)
“Did I make you go insane?
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?
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—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)