Tuesday 22 March 2011

World Golf Hall of Fame Inductees


Men

1974 Walter Hagen
1974 Ben Hogan
1974 Bobby Jones
1974 Byron Nelson
1974 Jack Nicklaus
1974 Francis Ouimet
1974 Arnold Palmer
1974 Gary Player
1974 Gene Sarazen
1974 Sam Snead
1974 Harry Vardon
1975 Willie Anderson
1975 Fred Corcoran - many-faceted promoter and administrator
1975 Joseph Dey - executive director of the USGA and the first commissioner of the PGA Tour
1975 Chick Evans
1975 Young Tom Morris
1975 John Henry Taylor
1976 Tommy Armour
1976 James Braid
1976 Old Tom Morris
1976 Jerome Travers
1977 Bobby Locke
1977 John Ball
1977 Herb Graffis - golf writer and founder of the U.S. National Golf Foundation
1977 Donald Ross - golf course architect
1978 Billy Casper
1978 Harold Hilton
1978 Bing Crosby - celebrity friend of golf who founded his own PGA Tour event
1978 Clifford Roberts - co-founder of the Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters Tournament
1979 Walter Travis
1980 Henry Cotton
1980 Lawson Little
1981 Ralph Guldahl
1981 Lee Trevino
1982 Julius Boros
1983 Jimmy Demaret
1983 Bob Hope - celebrity friend of golf who founded his own PGA Tour event
1986 Cary Middlecoff
1987 Robert Trent Jones - golf course architect
1988 Bob Harlow - promoter who played a key role in the early development of the PGA Tour
1988 Peter Thomson
1988 Tom Watson
1989 Jim Barnes
1989 Roberto De Vicenzo
1989 Raymond Floyd
1990 William C. Campbell - two-time President of the USGA
1990 Gene Littler
1990 Paul Runyan
1990 Horton Smith
1992 Harry Cooper
1992 Hale Irwin
1992 Chi Chi Rodriguez
1992 Richard Tufts - ran Pinehurst and served as President of the USGA
1996 Johnny Miller
1997 Seve Ballesteros
1997 Nick Faldo
1998 Lloyd Mangrum
2000 Jack Burke, Jr.
2000 Deane Beman - Commissioner of the PGA Tour 1974-1994
2000 Michael Bonallack - British golf administrator
2000 Neil Coles - first Chairman of the PGA European Tour
2000 John Jacobs - first Tournament Director of the European Tour
2001 Bernhard Langer (inducted with 2002 class)[10]
2001 Greg Norman
2001 Payne Stewart
2001 Allan Robertson
2001 Karsten Solheim - golf equipment manufacturer and founder of the Solheim Cup
2002 Ben Crenshaw
2002 Tony Jacklin
2002 Tommy Bolt
2002 Harvey Penick - golf instructor
2003 Nick Price
2003 Leo Diegel
2004 Charlie Sifford
2004 Isao Aoki
2004 Tom Kite
2005 Bernard Darwin - golf writer
2005 Alister MacKenzie - golf course architect
2005 Willie Park, Sr.
2005 Vijay Singh (inducted with 2006 class)[11]
2006 Larry Nelson
2006 Henry Picard
2006 Mark McCormack - sports agent
2007 Joe Carr
2007 Hubert Green
2007 Charles B. Macdonald - inaugural U.S. Amateur champion, founding Vice-President of the USGA and "Father of American Golf Architecture"
2007 Kel Nagle
2007 Curtis Strange
2008 Bob Charles
2008 Pete Dye - golf course architect
2008 Denny Shute
2008 Herbert Warren Wind - golf writer
2008 Craig Wood
2009 Christy O'Connor Snr
2009 José María Olazábal
2009 Lanny Wadkins
2009 Dwight D. Eisenhower - former U.S. President
2011 Ernie Els
2011 Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki
2011 Doug Ford
2011 Jock Hutchison
2011 George H. W. Bush - former U.S. President

Women

1951 Betty Jameson
1951 Patty Berg
1951 Louise Suggs
1951 Babe Zaharias
1960 Betsy Rawls
1964 Mickey Wright
1975 Glenna Collett-Vare
1975 Joyce Wethered
1975 Kathy Whitworth
1977 Sandra Haynie
1977 Carol Mann
1978 Dorothy Campbell Hurd Howe
1982 JoAnne Carner
1987 Nancy Lopez
1991 Pat Bradley
1993 Patty Sheehan
1994 Dinah Shore - celebrity friend of the LPGA; founded a tournament that eventually became a major
1995 Betsy King
1999 Amy Alcott
2000 Beth Daniel
2000 Juli Inkster
2000 Judy Rankin
2001 Donna Caponi
2001 Judy Bell - administrator; first female President of the USGA
2002 Marlene Bauer Hagge
2003 Hisako "Chako" Higuchi
2003 Annika Sörenstam
2004 Marlene Stewart Streit
2005 Ayako Okamoto
2005 Karrie Webb
2006 Marilynn Smith
2007 Se Ri Pak
2008 Carol Semple Thompson

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