Golf
Men's professional
- Masters Tournament – Nick Faldo
- U.S. Open – Curtis Strange
- British Open – Mark Calcavecchia
- PGA Championship – Payne Stewart
- PGA Tour money leader – Tom Kite – $1,395,278
- Senior PGA Tour money leader – Bob Charles – $725,887
- Ryder Cup – Europe and the United States teams tied 14–14 in team golf.
Men's amateur
- British Amateur – Stephen Dodd
- U.S. Amateur – Chris Patton
- European Amateur – David Ecob
Women's professional
- Nabisco Dinah Shore – Juli Inkster
- LPGA Championship – Nancy Lopez
- U.S. Women's Open – Betsy King
- Classique du Maurier – Tammie Green
- LPGA Tour money leader – Betsy King – $654,132
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“If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.”
—Paul Gallico (1897–1976)
“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)
“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)
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