World Golf Hall of Fame

Date: 1974 [unknown]
Location: Saint Johns, Florida, United States

Profile manager: Gil Davis

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The World Golf Hall of Fame is located at World Golf Village near St. Augustine, Florida, in the United States, and it is unusual among sports halls of fame in that a single site honors both men and women.

**Inductees**
#	M/F	Year	Wikipedia	Comments	Born	Died	WikiTree
1	M	1974	Walter Hagen		1892	1969
2	M	1974	Ben Hogan		1912	1997
3	M	1974	Bobby Jones		1902	1971	Bobby Jones (golfer)
4	M	1974	Byron Nelson		1912	2006
5	M	1974	Jack Nicklaus		1940		Jack Nicklaus
6	M	1974	Francis Ouimet		1893	1967
7	M	1974	Arnold Palmer		1929	2016	Arnold Palmer
8	M	1974	Gary Player		1935
9	M	1974	Gene Sarazen		1902	1999
10	M	1974	Sam Snead		1912	2002
11	M	1974	Harry Vardon		1870	1937
12	M	1975	Willie Anderson		1879	1910
13	M	1975	Fred Corcoran	many-faceted promoter and administrator	1905	1977
15	M	1975	Joseph Dey	executive director of the USGA and the first commissioner of the PGA Tour	1907	1991
20	M	1975	Chick Evans		1890	1979
21	M	1975	Young Tom Morris		1851	1875
22	M	1975	John Henry Taylor		1871	1963
23	M	1976	Tommy Armour		1896	1968
25	M	1976	James Braid		1870	1950
26	M	1976	Old Tom Morris		1821	1908
27	M	1976	Jerome Travers		1887	1951
28	M	1977	Bobby Locke		1917	1987
29	M	1977	John Ball		1861	1940
30	M	1977	Herb Graffis	golf writer and founder of the U.S. National Golf Foundation	1893	1989
33	M	1977	Donald Ross	golf course architect	1872	1948
36	M	1978	Billy Casper		1931	2015
37	M	1978	Harold Hilton		1869	1942
38	M	1978	Bing Crosby	celebrity friend of golf who founded his own PGA Tour event (AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am)	1903	1977	Bing Crosby
41	M	1978	Clifford Roberts	co-founder of the Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters Tournament	1894	1977
46	M	1979	Walter Travis		1862	1927
47	M	1980	Henry Cotton		1907	1987
48	M	1980	Lawson Little		1910	1968
49	M	1981	Ralph Guldahl		1911	1987
50	M	1981	Lee Trevino		1939
51	M	1982	Julius Boros		1920	1994
52	M	1983	Jimmy Demaret		1910	1983
53	M	1983	Bob Hope	celebrity friend of golf who founded his own PGA Tour event (Bob Hope Classic)	1903	2003	Bob Hope
56	M	1986	Cary Middlecoff		1921	1998	Cary Middlecoff
57	M	1987	Robert Trent Jones	golf course architect	1906	2000
60	M	1988	Bob Harlow	promoter who played a key role in the early development of the PGA Tour	1899	1954
63	M	1988	Peter Thomson		1929	2018	Peter Thomson (golfer)
64	M	1988	Tom Watson		1949
65	M	1989	Jim Barnes		1886	1966
66	M	1989	Roberto De Vicenzo		1923	2017
67	M	1989	Raymond Floyd		1942
68	M	1990	William C. Campbell	two-time President of the USGA	1923	2013
71	M	1990	Gene Littler		1930	2019	Gene Littler
72	M	1990	Paul Runyan		1908	2002
73	M	1990	Horton Smith		1908	1963
74	M	1992	Harry Cooper		1904	2000
75	M	1992	Hale Irwin		1945
76	M	1992	Chi Chi Rodriguez		1935
77	M	1992	Richard Tufts	ran Pinehurst Resort and served as President of the USGA	1896	1980
81	M	1996	Johnny Miller		1947
82	M	1997	Seve Ballesteros		1957	2011	Seve Ballesteros
83	M	1997	Nick Faldo		1957
84	M	1998	Lloyd Mangrum		1914	1973
85	M	2000	Jack Burke, Jr.		1923
86	M	2000	Deane Beman	Commissioner of the PGA Tour 1974-1994	1938
88	M	2000	Michael Bonallack	British golf administrator	1934
90	M	2000	Neil Coles	first Chairman of the PGA European Tour	1934
93	M	2000	John Jacobs	first Tournament Director of the European Tour	1925	2017
95	M	2001	Bernhard Langer	(inducted with 2002 class)	1957
99	M	2001	Greg Norman		1955
100	M	2001	Payne Stewart		1957	1999
101	M	2001	Allan Robertson		1815	1859
102	M	2001	Karsten Solheim	golf equipment manufacturer and founder of the Solheim Cup	1911	2000
105	M	2002	Ben Crenshaw		1952
106	M	2002	Tony Jacklin		1944
107	M	2002	Tommy Bolt		1916	2008
108	M	2002	Harvey Penick	golf instructor	1904	1995
110	M	2003	Nick Price		1957
111	M	2003	Leo Diegel		1899	1951
112	M	2004	Charlie Sifford		1922	2015
113	M	2004	Isao Aoki		1942
114	M	2004	Tom Kite		1949
115	M	2005	Bernard Darwin	golf writer	1876	1961	Bernard Darwin
117	M	2005	Alister MacKenzie	golf course architect	1870	1934
120	M	2005	Willie Park, Sr.		1833	1903
121	M	2005	Vijay Singh	(inducted with 2006 class)	1963
125	M	2006	Larry Nelson		1947
126	M	2006	Henry Picard		1906	1997
127	M	2006	Mark McCormack	sports agent who represented many top golfers; the developer of golf's first world ranking system (McCormack's World Golf Rankings), adapted into today's Official World Golf Ranking	1930	2003
132	M	2007	Joe Carr		1922	2004
133	M	2007	Hubert Green		1946	2018
134	M	2007	Charles B. Macdonald	inaugural U.S. Amateur champion, founding Vice-President of the USGA and Father of American Golf Architecture	1855	1939
140	M	2007	Kel Nagle		1920	2015	Kel Nagle
141	M	2007	Curtis Strange		1955
142	M	2008	Bob Charles		1936
143	M	2008	Pete Dye	golf course architect	1925
146	M	2008	Denny Shute		1904	1974
147	M	2008	Herbert Warren Wind	golf writer	1916	2005
149	M	2008	Craig Wood		1901	1968
150	M	2009	Christy O'Connor Snr		1924	2016
151	M	2009	José María Olazábal		1966
152	M	2009	Lanny Wadkins		1949
153	M	2009	Dwight D. Eisenhower	former U.S. President	1890	1969	Dwight D. Eisenhower
155	M	2011	Ernie Els		1969
156	M	2011	Masashi Jumbo Ozaki		1947
157	M	2011	Doug Ford		1922	2018
158	M	2011	Jock Hutchison		1884	1977
160	M	2011	Frank Chirkinian	television producer, known as the 'father of televised golf' for the impact he had on golf broadcasting.	1926	2011
162	M	2011	George H. W. Bush	former U.S. President	1924	2018	George H. W. Bush
164	M	2012	Phil Mickelson		1970
168	M	2012	Dan Jenkins	golf writer	1929
172	M	2012	Sandy Lyle		1958
176	M	2012	Peter Alliss		1931
178	M	2013	Fred Couples		1959
181	M	2013	Ken Venturi		1931	2013
184	M	2013	Willie Park, Jr.		1864	1925
187	M	2013	Colin Montgomerie		1963
190	M	2013	Ken Schofield	Executive Director of the European Tour	1946
192	M	2015	David Graham		1946
195	M	2015	Mark O'Meara		1957
197	M	2015	A. W. Tillinghast	golf course architect	1876	1942
199	M	2017	Henry Longhurst	golf writer and commentator	1909	1978
201	M	2017	Davis Love III		1964
202	M	2017	Ian Woosnam		1958
203	M	2019	Retief Goosen		1969
204	M	2019	Billy Payne	− Chairman of Augusta National Golf Club	1947
207	M	2019	Dennis Walters	− disabled golfer and inspirational speaker and performer	1949
208	F	1951	Betty Jameson		1919	2009
209	F	1951	Patty Berg		1918	2006
210	F	1951	Louise Suggs		1923	2015
211	F	1951	Babe Zaharias		1911	1956
212	F	1960	Betsy Rawls		1928
213	F	1964	Mickey Wright		1935
214	F	1975	Glenna Collett-Vare		1903	1989
215	F	1975	Joyce Wethered		1901	1997
216	F	1975	Kathy Whitworth		1939
217	F	1977	Sandra Haynie		1943
218	F	1977	Carol Mann		1941	2018
219	F	1978	Dorothy Campbell Hurd Howe		1883	1945
220	F	1982	JoAnne Carner		1939
221	F	1987	Nancy Lopez		1957
222	F	1991	Pat Bradley		1951
223	F	1993	Patty Sheehan		1956
224	F	1994	Dinah Shore	celebrity friend of the LPGA; founded a tournament (Kraft Nabisco Championship) that eventually became a women's major golf championship	1916	1994
225	F	1995	Betsy King		1955
226	F	1999	Amy Alcott		1956
227	F	2000	Beth Daniel		1956
228	F	2000	Juli Inkster		1960
229	F	2000	Judy Rankin		1945
230	F	2001	Donna Caponi		1945
231	F	2001	Judy Bell	administrator; first female President of the USGA	1936
232	F	2002	Marlene Bauer Hagge		1934
233	F	2003	Hisako Chako Higuchi		1945
234	F	2003	Annika Sörenstam		1970
235	F	2004	Marlene Stewart Streit		1934
236	F	2005	Ayako Okamoto		1951
237	F	2005	Karrie Webb		1974
238	F	2006	Marilynn Smith		1929
239	F	2007	Pak Se-ri		1977
240	F	2008	Carol Semple Thompson		1948
241	F	2012	Hollis Stacy		1954
242	F	2015	Laura Davies		1963
243	F	2017	Meg Mallon		1963
244	F	2017	Lorena Ochoa		1981
245	F	2019	Peggy Kirk Bell		1921	2016
246	F	2019	Jan Stephenson		1951

World Golf Hall of Fame

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