Golf
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament - Gary Player
- U.S. Open - Andy North
- British Open - Jack Nicklaus
- PGA Championship - John Mahaffey
- PGA Tour money leader - Tom Watson - $362,429
Men's amateur
- British Amateur - Peter McEvoy
- U.S. Amateur - John Cook
Women's professional
- LPGA Championship - Nancy Lopez
- U.S. Women's Open - Hollis Stacy
- LPGA Tour money leader - Nancy Lopez - $189,814
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Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.”
—Frank Butler (1890–1967)
“emerald as heavy
as a golf course, ruby as dark
as an afterbirth,
diamond as white as sun
on the sea ...”
—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)