Golf
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament - Arnold Palmer
- U.S. Open - Arnold Palmer
- British Open - Kel Nagle
- PGA Championship - Jay Hebert
- PGA Tour money leader - Arnold Palmer - $75,263
Men's amateur
- British Amateur - Joe Carr
- U.S. Amateur - Deane Beman
Women's professional
- Women's Western Open - Joyce Ziske
- LPGA Championship - Mickey Wright
- U.S. Women's Open - Betsy Rawls
- Titleholders Championship - Fay Crocker
- LPGA Tour money leader - Louise Suggs - $16,892
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Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“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)
“A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.”
—Frank Butler (1890–1967)
“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)