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:
“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)
“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)