Golf
- The Masters – Trevor Immelman wins his first major.
- Tiger Woods wins the 2008 U.S. Open Golf Championship over Rocco Mediate following an eighteen hole playoff which they tie at even par. This forces a sudden death playoff on the seventh hole and Woods makes a par to Mediate's bogey.
- United States defeats Europe to win the 2008 Ryder Cup at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky
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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)
“A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.”
—Frank Butler (1890–1967)
“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?
Did I make you go insane?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
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