Golf
Men's professional
- The Senior PGA Tour (now called Champions Tour) is founded.
- Masters Tournament – Seve Ballesteros
- U.S. Open – Jack Nicklaus
- British Open – Tom Watson
- PGA Championship – Jack Nicklaus
- PGA Tour money leader – Tom Watson – $530,808
- Senior PGA Tour – money leader – Don January – $44,100
Men's amateur
- British Amateur – Duncan Evans
- U.S. Amateur – Hal Sutton
Women's professional
- LPGA Championship – Sally Little
- U.S. Women's Open – Amy Alcott
- Classique Peter Jackson Classic – Pat Bradley
- LPGA Tour money leader – Beth Daniel – $231,000
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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)
“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)
“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)