Golf
- July 24 – Tony Lema (32), American golf champion, died in an air crash at Munster, Indiana
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament - Jack Nicklaus
- U.S. Open - Billy Casper
- British Open - Jack Nicklaus becomes the fourth player to win all four major professional championships.
- PGA Championship - Al Geiberger
- PGA Tour money leader - Billy Casper - $121,945
Men's amateur
- British Amateur - Bobby Cole
- U.S. Amateur - Gary Cowan
Women's professional
- Women's Western Open - Mickey Wright
- LPGA Championship - Gloria Ehret
- U.S. Women's Open - Sandra Spuzich
- Titleholders Championship - Kathy Whitworth
- LPGA Tour money leader - Kathy Whitworth - $33,517
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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)
“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)