Golf
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament – Billy Casper
- U.S. Open – Tony Jacklin
- British Open – Jack Nicklaus
- PGA Championship – Dave Stockton
- PGA Tour money leader – Lee Trevino – $157,037
Men's amateur
- British Amateur – Michael Bonallack
- U.S. Amateur – Lanny Wadkins
Women's professional
- LPGA Championship – Shirley Englehorn
- U.S. Women's Open – Donna Caponi
- Titleholders Championship – not played
- LPGA Tour money leader – Kathy Whitworth – $30,235
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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)
“If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.”
—Paul Gallico (1897–1976)
“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)