Golf
Major tournaments
- The inaugural British Open is won by Willie Park senior at Prestwick Golf Club. The tournament is initially limited to professional players but will be "open" in 1861.
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Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“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)
“A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.”
—Frank Butler (1890–1967)