Everything about The World Golf Hall Of Fame totally explained
The
World Golf Hall of Fame is located in
St. Augustine, Florida, in the
United States, and it's unusual among sports
halls of fame in that a single site serves both men and women. It is supported by a consortium of 26 golf organizations from all over the world.
The Hall of Fame Museum Building is designed by the museum architecture specialist firm of E. Verner Johnson and Associates of Boston, MA. They also produced the museum master plan that established the overall size, mission and qualities of the overall museum and the surrounding facilities and site.
The Hall of Fame Museum features a permanent exhibition and a rolling program of temporary exhibitions. Designed by museum design firm
Ralph Appelbaum Associates, the Hall of Fame and exhibition area contains exhibits on the game's history, heritage, and techniques; major players and organizations;
golf course design, equipment, and dress; and new directions, such as ecological concerns in course management.
History
The World Golf Hall of Fame was originally located in
Pinehurst, North Carolina, and was privately operated by Diamondhead Corp., then owners of the
Pinehurst Resort. It opened in September
1974 with an initial class of 13 members. To start with it was a local project, but the
PGA of America took over management in 1983 and acquired full ownership in 1986.
Two other halls of fame have been merged into the World Golf Hall of Fame. The PGA of America established one in 1940, which was merged into the Pinehurst Hall in the 1980s. The Hall of Fame of Women's Golf was established by the LPGA in 1951, with four charter members:
Patty Berg,
Betty Jameson,
Louise Suggs, and
Babe Zaharias. It was inactive for some years, but in 1967 it moved into its first physical premises, which were in
Augusta, Georgia and was renamed the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame. In 1998 it merged into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
In 1994 the global golf industry established a non-profit making body called the
World Golf Foundation to promote the sport, with the creation of an enhanced Hall of Fame as one of its main objectives. Construction at the new site in St. Augustine began in 1996 and the new facility opened on
May 19,
1998.
The World Golf Hall of Fame is a Founding Sports Partner of the
Sports Museum of America, joining more than 50 other single-sport Halls of Fame, National Governing Bodies, Museums and other organizations across North America to richly celebrate the history, grandeur and significance of sports in American culture. Set to open in New York City on May 7, 2008, the Sports Museum of America will showcase the World Golf Hall of Fame in its Hall of Halls Gallery (along with providing an annual donation) in return for sharing some of the museum's valuable golf artifacts and its support of the creation of the Nation's first all-sports museum experience.
Membership categories
Members are inducted into the Hall of Fame in one of five categories: PGA Tour/Champions Tour, LPGA Tour, International, Lifetime Achievement, and Veterans.
PGA Tour/Champions Tour ballot
Current and former
PGA Tour and
Champions Tour players are eligible for this ballot if they meet the following requirements (beginning with 1996 election):
Champions Tour
- Champions Tour member for five years
- 20 wins between PGA Tour and Champions Tour or five wins in the majors (regular or senior) or Players Championship
Election requirements:
| Years |
% of returned ballots needed for election |
| 1996-2000 |
75% |
| 2001-2003 |
65% |
| 2004- |
65%, in the event that no candidate receives 65%, the
nominee receiving the most votes with at least 50% is elected |
Voters may vote for up to 30% of the players on the ballot. If a player is named on less than 5% of the ballots for two consecutive years, they're dropped from the ballot. Players not elected can remain on the ballot for up to 15 years (prior to 2007 the limit was 10 years).
LPGA point system
LPGA Tour golfers are eligible through a point system. Since 1999, LPGA members automatically qualify for World Golf Hall of Fame membership when they meet these three criteria:
Must be/have been an "active" LPGA Tour member for 10 years.
Must have won/been awarded at least one of the following - an LPGA major championship, the Vare Trophy or Player of the Year honors; and
Must have accumulated a total of 27 points, which are awarded as follows - one point for each LPGA official tournament win, two points for each LPGA major tournament win and one point for each Vare Trophy or Rolex Player of the Year honor earned.
Before 1999, players had to win 30 tournaments, including two majors; 35 tournaments with one major; or 40 tournaments in all to automatically qualify. At one time, players had to win two different majors to qualify with 30 wins, but this was changed earlier in the 1990s.
International ballot
Men and women golfers not fully eligible for PGA/Champions Tour ballot or the LPGA Tour point system are eligible for the International ballot if they meet the following requirements (beginning with the 1996 election):
Minimum of 40 years old
Cumulative 50 points earned as follows:
Election requirements: same as PGA Tour ballot.
Lifetime Achievement category
There is also a "lifetime achievement" category through which anyone who has made a major contribution to the organization or promotion of the sport may be selected, for example, Bob Hope. These members are chosen by the Hall of Fame's Board of Directors. Naturally they all played golf, in some cases with some competitive success, but it wasn't their play which won them a place in the Hall of Fame.
Veteran's category
The last category was created to honor professional or amateur players whose career concluded at least 30 years ago. These members are also chosen by the Hall of Fame's Board of Directors.
Membership
New members are inducted each October or November, and by November 2007 there were 120 members. The results of the annual ballots are announced each April. New entrants in the Lifetime Achievement and Veteran's categories are announced at irregular intervals.
Men
Unless stated otherwise these men were inducted mainly for their on-course success. The exceptions mostly correspond with the lifetime achievement category, but not quite. For example Charlie Sifford was notable as a player but was inducted for lifetime achievement.
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 Sir 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, Sr. - 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 Sir 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 Greg Norman
2001 Payne Stewart
2001 Bernhard Langer
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.
2006 Vijay Singh
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
Future inductee
2008 Pete Dye - golf course architect
Women
The first five women on this list were grandfathered in from the Hall of Fame of Women's Golf, which was founded in 1951, via the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame, which was inaugurated in 1967. The list shows the years when they were originally inducted into the Hall of Fame of Women's Golf. Unless stated otherwise the women on the list were inducted primarily for their on-course achievements.
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
Future inductee
2012 Lorena Ochoa (qualified in April 2008, but can't be inducted until completing 10 seasons on the LPGA tour)
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