World Golf Hall of Fame
The World Golf Hall of Fame is the golfing hall of fame . Located in St. Augustine , Florida , unlike most other sports fame, it honors celebrities of both sexes. A consortium of 26 golf organizations from around the world is responsible for monitoring.
The museum houses a permanent exhibition that not only deals with the excellent golfers, but also with the history of this sport. There are also changing special exhibitions.
history
The World Golf Hall of Fame was originally located in Pinehurst , North Carolina and was run by the owners of the Pinehurst Resort . It opened in September 1974 and the Hall of Fame consisted of 13 members. In 1983 the PGA of America took over the management and from 1986 the World Golf Hall of Fame was in the sole ownership of the PGA.
Two more halls of fame were incorporated - that of the PGA of America (founded in 1940) was incorporated in the 1980s, while that of the women's organization LPGA (founded in 1951 as the Hall of Fame of Women's Golf ) was incorporated in 1998.
In 1994 the global golf industry established a charitable foundation, the World Golf Foundation , to promote golf and expand the Hall of Fame. Construction began in St. Augustine in 1996 and the new Hall of Fame was opened on May 19, 1998.
Member selection
In addition to outstanding golfers of both sexes, personalities who have made a name for themselves in the sport of golf can also be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. These are represented in the Lifetime Achievement category . Best-known examples are Bing Crosby , Bob Hope and the 34th and 41st Presidents of the United States of America Dwight D. Eisenhower and George HW Bush .
List of members of the World Golf Hall of Fame
(Year: year of admission, status: March 2020)
1974: Patty Berg | Walter Hagen | Ben Hogan | Robert Tire "Bobby" Jones, Jr. | Byron Nelson | Jack Nicklaus | Francis Ouimet | Arnold Palmer | Gary Player | Gene Saracen | Sam Snead | Harry Vardon | Babe Zaharias
1975: Willie Anderson | Fred Corcoran | Joseph C. Dey | Chick Evans | Tom Morris, Jr. | John H. Taylor | Glenna C. Vare | Joyce Wethered
1976: Tommy Armor | James Braid | Tom Morris, Sr. | Jerome Travers | Mickey Wright
1977: Bobby Locke | John Ball | Herb Graffis | Donald Ross
1978: Billy Casper | Harold Hilton | Dorothy Campbell | Hurd Howe | Bing Crosby | Clifford Roberts
1979: Louise Suggs | Walter Travis
1980: Sir Henry Cotton | Lawson Little
1981: Ralph Guldahl | Lee Trevino
1982: Julius Boros | Kathy Whitworth
1983: Jimmy Demaret | Bob Hope
1985: JoAnne Carner
1986: Cary Middlecoff
1987: Robert Trent Jones, Sr. | Betsy Rawls
1988: Bob Harlow | Peter Thomson | Tom Watson
1989: Jim Barnes | Roberto DeVicenzo | Raymond Floyd | Nancy Lopez
1990: William Cammack Campbell | Gene Littler | Paul Runyan | Horton Smith
1992: Harry Cooper | Hale Irwin | Chi Chi Rodriguez | Richard Tufts
1993: Patty Sheehan
1994: Dinah Shore
1996: Johnny Miller
1997: Nick Faldo
1998: Lloyd Mangrum
1999: Seve Ballesteros
2000: Jack Burke, Jr. | Deane Beman | Sir Michael Bonallack | Neil Coles | John Jacobs
2001: Greg Norman | Payne Stewart | Allan Robertson | Judy Bell | Karsten Solheim
2002: Bernhard Langer | Ben Crenshaw | Tony Jacklin | Tommy Bolt | Harvey Penick
2003: Nick Price | Leo Diegel | Hisako "Chako" Higuchi | Annika Sörenstam
2004: Tom Kite | Isao Aoki | Marlene Stewart dispute | Charlie Sifford
2005: Bernard Darwin | Alister MacKenzie | Ayako Okamoto | Willie Park Sr. | Karrie Webb
2006: Vijay Singh | Mark McCormack | Larry Nelson | Henry Picard | Marilynn Smith
2007: Joe Carr | Hubert Green | Charles B. Macdonald | Kel Nagle | Curtis Strange | Se Ri Pak
2008: Bob Charles | Pete Dye | Denny Shute | Carol Semple Thompson | Herbert Warren Wind | Craig Wood
2009: José María Olazábal | Christy O'Connor senior | Lanny Wadkins | Dwight D. Eisenhower
2011: Ernie Els | Doug Ford | Jock Hutchison | George HW Bush | Masashi “Jumbo” Ozaki | Frank Chirkinian
2012: Phil Mickelson | Hollis Stacy | Sandy Lyle | Peter Alliss | Dan Jenkins
2013: Fred Couples | Ken Venturi | Willie Park, Jr. | Colin Montgomerie | Ken Schofield
2015: Dame Laura Davies | Mark O'Meara | David Graham | AW Tillimghast
2017: Henry Longhurst | Davis Love III | Meg Mallon | Lorena Ochoa | Ian Woosnam .
2019: Peggy Kirk Bell | Retief Goosen | Billy Payne | Jan Stephenson | Dennis Walters .
