1885 in Sports - Golf

Golf

Events

  • Inaugural British Amateur Championship held at Royal Liverpool Golf Club

Major tournaments

  • British Open – Bob Martin

Other tournaments

  • British Amateur – Allen MacFie

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Famous quotes containing the word golf:

    “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)

    “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)

    “If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.”
    —Paul Gallico (1897–1976)