Golf
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament - Jack Nicklaus shoots a Masters record 271 (17 under par) to win by nine strokes.
- U.S. Open - Gary Player becomes the third golfer in history to win all four professional majors.
- British Open - Peter Thomson
- PGA Championship - Dave Marr
- PGA Tour money leader - Jack Nicklaus - $140,752
- Ryder Cup - United States wins 19½ to 12½ over Britain in team golf.
Men's amateur
- British Amateur - Michael Bonallack
- U.S. Amateur - Bob Murphy
Women's professional
- Women's Western Open - Susie Maxwell
- LPGA Championship - Sandra Haynie
- U.S. Women's Open - Carol Mann
- Titleholders Championship - Kathy Whitworth
- LPGA Tour money leader - Kathy Whitworth - $28,658
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Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“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)
“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)
“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)