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- Long-hitting rookie John Daly overpowers the field in the
PGA Championship, after making the field as an alternate.
- Amateur Phil Mickelson wins the PGA Tour's Northern Telecom
Open at age 20.
- Chip Beck shoots a 59 during the Las Vegas Invitational to
tie Al Geiberger's PGA Tour record.
- Payne Stewart claims the U.S. Open at Hazeltine in a playoff
with Scott Simpson.
- Fred Couples' victory at The Masters puts him over $1million
in earnings in the second week of April.
- The PGA Tour tops $50 million in purses; the LPGA and Senior
Tours both go over $20 million.
- Ray Floyd, at age 49, wins the Doral Ryder Open 29 years after
his first PGA Tour victory. Later in the year, he wins on the
Senior Tour.
- Betsy King wins the LPGA Championship by 11 strokes with a
72-hole record 267.
- John F. Merchant, a Connecticut attorney, is the first African-American
elected to the USGA Executive Committee.
- Nick Faldo captures his third British Open.
- Bernard Langer wins his second Masters.
- Greg Norman wins his second British Open. Norman's 267 total
sets a British Open record.
- For the third consecutive year, Tiger Woods is the U.S. Junior
Amateur champion. No other player has repeated in the event.
- Sarah LeBrun Ingram becomes the first player to take the U.S.
Women's Mid-Amateur Championship twice. The event began in 1987.
- Nick Price wins the British Open at Turnberry, aided by a
final-round eagle on the 17th hole.
- Tim Finchem succeeds Deane Beman as Commissioner of the PGA
Tour.
- Arnold Palmer bids farewell to the U.S. Open in a stirring
march up the 18th fairway at Oakmont.
- Patty Sheehan wins the U.S. Women's Open at Indianwood, her
second in three years.
- Nick Price wins his second major of the year -- the PGA Championship
at Southern Hills.
- Corey Pavin claims the USGA's Centennial U.S. Open at Shinnecock
Hills.
- Ben Crenshaw wins The Masters just days after the death of
his mentor and teacher Harvey Penick.
- Tiger Woods wins his second consecutive U.S. Amateur Championship,
held at Newport (R.I.) Country Club.
- At St. Andrews, John Daly captures the British Open, his second
career major.
- The European team wins the Ryder Cup at Oak Hill by the margin
of 14½-13½.
- Judy Bell becomes the first woman elected President of the
USGA.
- Nick Faldo overtakes Greg Norman to win The Masters.
- Tiger Woods wins his third consecutive U.S. Amateur Championship
at Pumpkin Ridge. Later, he joins the PGA Tour, wins twice,
and earns Rookie of the Year honors.
- Tom Watson wins the Memorial Tournament - his first victory
in nine years.
- Kelli Kuehne wins her second consecutive U.S. Women's Amateur
title, and later adds the British Ladies Open Amateur.
- Annika Sorenstam wins her second consecutive Women's Open
Championship, held at Pine Needles.
- Tiger Woods wins The Masters in record fashion, with an 18-under-par
total and a 12-stroke margin of victory.
- Ernie Els wins the U.S. Open at Congressional, his second
in four years.
- The first Ryder Cup is held on Continental European soil,
at Valderrama in Spain. The European team wins.
- Justin Leonard wins the British Open at Royal Troon, carding
a final-round 65.
- Jack Nicklaus competes in the U.S. Open at Congressional --
his 150th consecutive major championship.
- Lee Janzen wins his second U.S. Open title of the 90's at
The Olympic Club in San Francisco, Calif.
- Casey Martin is awarded the right to ride in a golf cart at
the U.S. Open.
- Mark O'Meara, at age 41, becomes the oldest player to win
The Masters and the British Open in the same year.
- Vijay Singh, with a victory at the PGA Championship, wins
his first major; it is the first major championship claimed
by a player from Fiji.
- Se Ri Pak, a 19-year-old phenom from Korea, captivates the
LPGA Tour with major wins at the U.S. Women's Open and the LPGA
Championship.
- Thirteen-year-old Aree Wongluekiet becomes the youngest winner
in USGA history by capturing the Girls' Junior championship
at Green Spring Valley Hunt Club.
- The U.S. wins the Ryder Cup in dramatic comeback at The Country
Club in Brookline, Mass.
- Paul Lawrie, a native of Scotland, wins the British Open in
a three-way playoff when Frenchman Jean Van de Velde collapses
on the 72nd hole.
- Jose Maria Olazabal wins his second Masters.
- The U.S. Senior Open attracts record crowds of over 250,000
in Des Moines, Iowa.
- Payne Stewart wins his second U.S. Open title at Pinehurst,
sinking a dramatic par putt on the 72nd hole. Tragically, he
perishes along with five others in a plane crash four months
later.
- Juli Inkster smashes the U.S. Women's Open scoring record
at Old Waverly. Later in the year, with a victory in the Safeway
LPGA Golf Championship, she earns entry into the LPGA Hall of
Fame.
- The USGA implements testing protocol for "spring-like" effect
in metal woods.
- The USGA celebrates the 100th playing of the U.S. Open, U.S.
Amateur, and U.S. Women's Amateur, as well as the 75th playing
of the U.S. Amateur Public Links.
- Shigeki Maruyama cards a 58 in sectional qualifying for the
U.S. Open.
- At 10 years of age, Michelle Wie becomes the youngest player
to compete in a USGA women's amateur competition when she qualifies
for the Women's Amateur Public Links in Aberdeen, N.C.
- Tiger Woods rolls to a record 15-stroke victory at the U.S.
Open at Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Links. It is Woods' first
Open title and his seventh USGA championship. He would go on
to win the season's final two major championships, the British
Open at St. Andrews and the PGA Championship at Valhalla, becoming
the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors
in a year.
- By defeating Anna Schultz, 3 and 2, in the final of the Women's
Mid-Amateur, Ellen Port becomes only the second player in the
championship's history to win three Women's Mid-Amateur titles,
joining Sarah LeBrun Ingram.
- Tiger Woods is the first player to hold all four professional-major
titles at one time when he captures The Masters in April. It
becomes known as the "The Tiger Slam."
- Retief Goosen of South Africa wins the U.S. Open at Southern
Hills in an 18-hole playoff over Mark Brooks.
- Karrie Webb rolls to an eight-shot victory at the U.S. Women's
Open at Pine Needles and joins six others (Mickey Wright, Donna
Caponi, Susie Maxwell Berning, Hollis Stacy, Betsy King and
Annika Sorenstam) as back-to-back winners of this championship.
- Annika Sorenstam becomes the first female golfer to ever
shoot a 59 in an LPGA event, achieving the feat at the Standard
Register PING in Phoenix, Ariz.
- Christina Kim registers the lowest 18-hole score in any USGA
championship when she fires a 62 in the second round of stroke-play
qualifying at the U.S. Girls' Junior at Indian Hills Country
Club in Mission Hills, Kan.
- James Vargas establishes a U.S. Junior 36-hole stroke-play
scoring record of 132 at Oak Hills Country Club in San Antonio,
Texas.
- Meredith Duncan outlasts Nicole Perrot in a 37-hole thriller
for the U.S. Women's Amateur title at Flint Hills National Golf
Club in Wichita, Kan. The loss prevented Perrot from becoming
the first golfer to capture the U.S. Girls' Junior and Women's
Amateur in the same year.
- In the first 36-hole final in U.S. Mid-Amateur history, Tim
Jackson defeats George Zahringer, 1 up, at San Joaquin Country
Club in Fresno, Calif.
- The Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup team registers a
15-9 victory over the USA squad at Ocean Forest Golf Club. It's
the first time the GB&I squad had posted consecutive victories
over the USA in the 79-year history of the Match.
- Kemp Richardson joins his later father, John, as the only
father-son duo to capture a USGA championship, when he defeats
Bill Ploeger, 2 and 1, for the USGA Senior Amateur crown at
Norwood Hills Country Club in St. Louis, Mo. John Richardson
also won the Senior Amateur title in 1987 at Saucon Valley Country
Club in Bethlehem, Pa.
- For the first time ever, the U.S. Open is held at a publicly
owned facility (Bethpage State Park's Black Course). Tiger Woods
wins the title by three strokes over Phil Mickelson and is the
only player in the field to finish under par (-3).
- Ernie Els ends Tiger Woods' hopes for a Grand Slam by taking
the British Open at Muirfield in a playoff over Steve Elkington,
Thomas Levet and Stuart Appleby. Woods had won the Masters and
U.S. Open titles.
- Juli Inkster returns to the site of her first Women's Amateur
championship (Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kan.)
and fires a final-round 66 to beat Annika Sorenstam by two strokes
for her second U.S. Women's Open title. Inkster joined Jack
Nicklaus as the only players to win a U.S. Amateur and Open
at the same course.
- Carol Semple Thompson, playing in her record 12th Curtis
Cup Match, sinks a 27-foot birdie putt from the fringe at the
18th hole to secure the USA's 11-7 victory over Great Britain
and Ireland. The dramatic putt was fitting since the Match was
played in Thompson's hometown of Pittsburgh, Pa., at the Fox
Chapel Golf Club. It was also Thompson's 18th victory in Curtis
Cup play, another record.
- George Zahringer, at 49, becomes the oldest player to win
the U.S. Mid-Amateur title, when he defeats Jerry Courville
Jr., 3 and 2, at his home course, The Stanwich Club in Greenwich,
Conn.
- Carol Semple Thompson, en route to winning her fourth consecutive
USGA Senior Women's Amateur championship at Mid-Pines Inn and
Golf Club in Southern Pines, N.C., establishes a consecutive
match-play winning streak record of 24.
- Michelle Wie, 13, becomes the youngest champion of an adult
USGA championship when she defeats Virada Nirapathponporn in
the final of the Women's Amateur Public Links Championship at
Ocean Hammock Golf Club in Palm Coast, Fla.
- Jim Furyk establishes a 54-hole U.S. Open scoring record
of 200 en route to a three-stroke victory over Stephen Leaney.
Furyk's 72-hole total of 272 tied an Open mark held by Jack
Nicklaus, Lee Janzen and Tiger Woods.
- Hilary Lunke outlasts Angela Stanford and Kelly Robbins in
an 18-hole playoff for the U.S. Women's Open title. Lunke becomes
the first player since Annika Sorenstam in 1995 to make the
Women's Open her first professional victory. Lunke also is the
first champion to have won by going through local and sectional
qualifying.
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