2000 in Sports - Golf

Golf

Men's professional

  • Masters Tournament – Vijay Singh
  • U.S. Open – Tiger Woods wins by 15 shots, a record for all majors, with a U.S. Open to–par record score of –12.
  • British Open – Tiger Woods becomes the fifth golfer in history to achieve the modern "career grand slam", and sets the to–par record for all majors (–19).
  • PGA Championship – Tiger Woods becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year. He ties the to–par record for the PGA (–18) with Bob May, and wins in a playoff.
  • PGA Tour money leader – Tiger Woods – $9,188,321
  • PGA Tour Player of the Year – Tiger Woods
  • PGA Tour Rookie of the Year – Michael Clark II
  • Tiger Woods set or tied a total of 27 PGA Tour records during the year
  • Senior PGA Tour money leader – Larry Nelson – $2,708,005

Men's amateur

  • British Amateur – Mikko Ilonen
  • U.S. Amateur – Jeff Quinney
  • European Amateur – Carl Pettersson

Women's professional

  • Nabisco Championship – Karrie Webb
  • LPGA Championship – Juli Inkster
  • U.S. Women's Open – Karrie Webb
  • Classique du Maurier – Meg Mallon
  • LPGA Tour money leader – Karrie Webb – $1,876,853
  • The European team defeated the United States team 14 ½ – 11 ½ to regain the Solheim Cup.

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