1950 in Sports - Golf

Golf

Men's professional

  • Masters Tournament – Jimmy Demaret
  • U.S. Open – Ben Hogan
  • PGA Championship – Chandler Harper
  • British Open – Bobby Locke
  • PGA Tour money leader – Sam Snead – $35,759

Men's amateur

  • British Amateur – Frank Stranahan
  • U.S. Amateur – Sam Urzetta

Women's professional

  • Thirteen women golfers found the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).
  • Women's Western Open – Babe Zaharias
  • U.S. Women's Open – Babe Zaharias
  • Titleholders Championship – Babe Zaharias
  • Babe Zaharias named Woman Athlete of the Half–Century by the Associated Press.
  • LPGA Tour money leader – Babe Zaharias – $14,800

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