2005 in Sports - Golf

Golf

Men's professional

  • Major Championships
    • Masters Tournament – Tiger Woods defeated fellow American Chris DiMarco at the first playoff hole to claim his 4th Masters title and his 9th major.
    • U.S. Open – Michael Campbell
    • British Open – Tiger Woods
    • PGA Championship – Phil Mickelson
  • PGA Tour money leader – Tiger Woods won $10,628,024

Men's amateur

  • British Amateur – Brian McElhinney
  • U.S. Amateur – Edoardo Molinari
  • European Amateur – Marius Thorp

Women's professional

  • Kraft Nabisco Championship – Annika Sörenstam won her eighth major
  • LPGA Championship – Annika Sörenstam
  • U.S. Women's Open – Birdie Kim
  • Women's British Open – Jeong Jang
  • LPGA Tour money leader – Annika Sörenstam won $2,588,240

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