Golf
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament - Cary Middlecoff
- U.S. Open - Jack Fleck
- British Open - Peter Thomson
- PGA Championship - Doug Ford
- PGA Tour money leader - Julius Boros - $63,122
- Ryder Cup - United States team wins 8-4 over the British team.
Men's amateur
- British Amateur - Joe Conrad
- U.S. Amateur - Harvie Ward
Women's professional
- The LPGA launches the new LPGA Championship annual tournament.
- Women's Western Open - Patty Berg
- LPGA Championship - Beverly Hanson
- U.S. Women's Open - Fay Crocker
- Titleholders Championship - Patty Berg
- LPGA Tour money leader - Patty Berg - $16,492
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Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“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)
“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)
“If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.”
—Paul Gallico (1897–1976)