Golf
Men's professional
- PGA Championship – Jack Nicklaus
- Masters Tournament – Charles Coody
- U.S. Open – Lee Trevino
- British Open – Lee Trevino
- PGA Tour money leader – Jack Nicklaus – $244,491
- Ryder Cup – United States won 18½ to 13½ over Britain in team golf
Men's amateur
- British Amateur – Steve Melnyk
- U.S. Amateur – Gary Cowan
Women's professional
- LPGA Championship – Kathy Whitworth
- U.S. Women's Open – JoAnne Carner – this win made her the first person ever to win three different USGA individual championship events.
- Titleholders Championship – not played
- LPGA Tour money leader – Kathy Whitworth – $41,181
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Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“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)
“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)
“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)