11–14 April: Masters Tournament – Adam Scott won in a playoff against Ángel Cabrera with a birdie on the second playoff hole. He became the first Australian to win the Masters.
13–16 June: U.S. Open – Justin Rose won his first major championship. He became the first man from mainland U.K. to win the U.S. Open since Tony Jacklin in 1970.
18–21 July: The Open Championship – Phil Mickelson won his first Open Championship, and his fifth major overall. It was also the second week in a row he won on the European Tour, both wins coming in Scotland.
3–6 October: Presidents Cup – The U.S. team won, 18½–15½, for the fifth straight time.
3–6 October: Seve Trophy – Continental Europe won, 15–13, for the first time since the inaugural Seve Trophy in 2000.
21–24 November: World Cup of Golf – Australian Jason Day won the individual competition by two strokes over Denmark's Thomas Bjørn. Day teamed with Adam Scott to win the team portion by 10 strokes over the United States.
20–22 December: Royal Trophy – Europe defeated Asia, 8½–7½, by winning five of the last six singles matches.
14 July – Jordan Spieth, two weeks shy of his 20th birthday, won the John Deere Classic in a three-way playoff, becoming the first teenager to win on the PGA Tour since 1931.[4]
8 December – Miguel Ángel Jiménez extended his own record as the oldest golfer ever to win a European Tour event, defending his title from last season in the Hong Kong Open at age 49 years, 337 days.[6]
4–7 April: Kraft Nabisco Championship – South Korean Inbee Park won by four strokes with a score of 273 (–15). This was Park's second major victory; she won the 2008 U.S. Women's Open as a 19-year-old.
27–30 June: U.S. Women's Open - South Korean Inbee Park won her second U.S. Women's Open, gaining her third major win of the year, and also gaining the third consecutive win on the LPGA Tour. Park becomes the first woman to win the first three majors of a season since Babe Zaharias in 1950, and the first ever to do so in a season in which there were more than three majors.[7]
1–4 August: Women's British Open – American Stacy Lewis won her first Women's British Open and her second major. Lewis became the first American woman to win a major since her victory in the 2011 Kraft Nabisco Championship. The win also gave Americans a clean sweep of the British Opens, to go along with Phil Mickelson winning the Open Championship, and Mark Wiebe winning the Senior Open Championship.
24 January – The LPGA announced plans to launch a new international team event in 2014, the International Crown. The event, intended to be held in even-numbered years (those in which the Solheim Cup is not held), will involve four-member teams from eight countries in a four-day match play format. The countries to play in the inaugural event will be the eight countries whose top four players are cumulatively highest-ranked in the Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of the 2013 LPGA season.[8]
15 April – South Korean Inbee Park took over the number one position in the Women's World Golf Rankings following an off-week on the LPGA Tour. It was the first time a South Korean player held the top spot since Jiyai Shin gave up the spot in February 2011.[10]
21 November – The eight countries that will participate in the inaugural International Crown are announced. The four-player teams will consist of the top players from each of these countries in the Women's World Rankings immediately preceding the 2014 Kraft Nabisco Championship: Australia, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, United States.[11]
17–22 June: The Amateur Championship – Garrick Porteous of England won, the first English winner in 10 years, and the United Kingdom's second consecutive winner.
12–18 August: U.S. Amateur – Matt Fitzpatrick of the UK won, defeating Australian Oliver Goss in the final match by a score of 4 & 3. Fitzpatrick became the first Englishman in 102 years to win it.
7–8 September: Walker Cup – The United States defeated Great Britain and Ireland by a score of 17 to 9.
It was announced in October that World Golf Hall of Fame is reviewing its selection process in all five categories and that there would be no induction ceremony in 2014.[18]
Deaths
3 January – Hisayuki Sasaki (born 1964), three-time Japan Golf Tour winner
