INDUCTEES BIOGRAPHIES

RALPH BOGART (2007) Ralph was a member of Quail Ridge Country Club for almost 30 years. As an amateur, he won more than 80 tournaments, including ten Maryland State Amateurs, and was president and co-founder of the prestigious Society of Seniors, an organization for elite amateur golfers in the U.S. Other accomplishments: Qualified four times for the U.S. Open, seven times for the U.S. Senior Open and nine times for the U.S. Senior Amateur. In addition to his ten Maryland State Amateurs, he won four Middle Atlantic Amateurs, three District of Columbia Amateurs, six National Father-Son Championships and five Anderson Memorial Four-Ball Championships … Was a 14-time Club Champion at Chevy Chase Country Club and two-time champion at Quail Ridge … Inducted into the Maryland State Athletic Hall of Fame and the Middle Atlantic Association Hall of Fame.

DALE MOREY (2007) Dale was a member of Quail Ridge Country Club for more than 22 years. As an amateur, he won more than 300 tournaments, including the 1974 and 1977 U.S. Senior Amateur Championships, and was selected as Golf Digest’s Outstanding Senior Amateur for the decade of 1970s. Dale played in six Masters, his best finish T57 in 1966. Other accomplishments: Won the 1985 British Senior Amateur Championship, as well as two North & South Senior Champions (1978, 1980), the 1976 Southern Senior Amateur, six American Senior Championships and was low amateur at the 1977 U.S. Senior Open … Won the Indiana Open five times … A member of two teams (1955, 1965), two Americas Cup teams (1954, 1965) and member of 1964 World Cup team … President and co-founder of the Society of Seniors… Also inducted into the Indiana Golf Hall of Fame, Indiana Sports Hall of Fame, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame and North Carolina Golf Writers Hall of Fame.

BRUCE KARR (2008) Bruce has been a member and resident of Quail Ridge Country Club for 20 years. He has participated in five Paralympic Games, winning a Gold Cup in l986 along with gold medals in basketball, archery and table tennis. He is considered to be a master strategist in wheelchair basketball. Other accomplishments: Karr competed in the first Paralympic Games in Rome in 1960 and has won 12 gold medals … In 1986, he and wife Verena established the National Wheelchair Sports Fund, which helps defray the costs of travel and other expenses for wheelchair tennis players … In 2006, he was named Racquet Sport Industries’ Wheelchair Champion of the Year … Has been inducted into the USA Wheelchair Sports Hall of Fame and the National Wheelchair Basketball Association Hall of Fame.

HARRELD KIRKPATRICK (2008) Harreld has been a member of Quail Ridge Country Club for more than 30 years. As an amateur, he won more than 100 tournaments, including the 1954 Kentucky State Amateur. He competed in the 1955 British Open, has played practice rounds with such legends as , and Babe Zaharias and was friends with the game’s greatest amateur, . Other accomplishments: Won more than 100 tournaments despite not competing for 20 years while he ran a coal company … In 2007, the Kentucky Golf Association honored him by creating the Harreld Kirkpatrick Trophy for the low senior scorer in the Kentucky State Amateur Championship … Was inducted into the Kentucky Golf Hall of Fame and the Senior Golfers of America Hall of Fame.

JOHN C. OWENS (2008) John has been a member of Quail Ridge Country Club for 25 years. As an amateur, he won more than 100 tournaments, including the 1984 British Senior Amateur and two Kentucky State Amateurs. He was a star golfer at the University of Kentucky and was head coach of the program from 1951-57. Other accomplishments: Played in the 1964 Masters and also qualified for 16 U.S. Golf Association events … The University of Kentucky hosts a tournament named after him, the Johnny Owens Invitational … Won the 1996 and 2000 Canadian Super Senior Amateur Tournaments … Co-founder of the Society of Seniors… Also inducted into the Kentucky Golf Hall of Fame, Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame and the Southern Golf Association Hall of Fame. WILLIAM J. ELY (2009) Bill has been a member of Quail Ridge Country Club for 32 years. Ely, a retired U.S. Army general, was featured in Sports Illustrated for holding the unofficial record of shooting his age an incredible 2,005 times, including by 16 shots when he was 90. Other accomplishments: Despite not picking up the game until his junior year at West Point, Bill became a top golfer. He holds the distinction of winning the club championship at Army Navy Country Club at four different ranks: Colonel, brigadier general, major general and lieutenant general … Won the Quail Ridge Club Championship twice … Has served with distinction on numerous committees while participating in all aspects of Quail Ridge life.

CLAUDE HARMON (2009) Claude was a member and resident of Quail Ridge Country Club for more than 10 years. He won the 1948 Masters, but is perhaps better known for being one of the nation’s top teaching professionals. He was the head professional at two iconic courses – Winged Foot Golf Club on Long Island and Seminole Golf Club in Juno Beach, Fla. – at the same time. Other accomplishments: Harmon held his own against full-time professionals even though he spent most of his time as a club professional. In addition to winning The Masters, he was third in the 1959 U.S. Open and three times made it to the finals of the PGA Championship (1945, ’48, ’53) … Among the players he taught were David Marr, Jack Burke Jr. and Mike Souchak … His students included four presidents of the United States and the king of Morocco … Three of his sons – Butch, Craig and Bill – are among Golf Digest’s top 50 instructors.

ROBERT M. HARDY (2010) Bob has been a resident and member of Quail Ridge Country Club for 25 years. He played quarterback for legendary coach Paul “Bear” Bryant at Kentucky in the mid-1950s, twice winning All-SEC honors, before golf became his primary sport. Other accomplishments: In addition to making All-SEC as a quarterback at Kentucky, also earned second-team All-America honors as a golfer … Ranked as the fifth-best senior amateur by Golf Digest in 1989 … Has won five Quail Ridge Country Club Match Play Championships, two Stroke Play Championships at Quail Ridge and won the 1989 American Senior Stroke Play Championship.

ROBERT V. HARRIS (2011) “Dr. Bob” has been a resident and member of Quail Ridge Country Club for more than 10 years and is the patriarch of one of the top golf-hockey families in Minnesota. He advanced to the finals of the 1992 U.S. Senior Amateur and won the 1989 Minnesota Senior Amateur. Other accomplishments: He teamed with son John, who plays on the Champions Tour, to win the National Father-Son Championship and has teamed with four sons to win the Northwest Father & Son Championship an amazing 12 times … Qualified for the U.S. Senior Amateur six times and the U.S. Senior Open three times … Played on the University of Minnesota hockey team from 1947-50 and was captain the last two seasons … Won the Quail Ridge Stroke Play Championship in 2000 and also has twice been the Quail Ridge Top 10 Shootout Champion … Was the Florida Super Senior Amateur Champion in 2000 and 2002 and was the Minnesota Super Senior Champion in 1998.

SAM SNEAD (2011) The three-time Masters champion was a resident of Quail Ridge Country Club for seven years during his Hall of Fame career that spanned more than four decades. He won seven majors as a professional – he also won three PGA Championships and a British Open – and holds the record for most career victories on the PGA Tour (82). He became the Tour’s oldest winner when at 52 he captured the 1965 Greater Greensboro Open for a record eighth time. Other accomplishments: In addition to his 82 PGA Tour win, he also earned more than 70 other worldwide victories … He was the leading money winner on the PGA Tour three times and won the Vardon Trophy for low scoring average four times … Inducted into the in 1974 … Recognized as owning one of the sweetest swings in the sport, which was why he was affectionately called “Slammin’ Sammy … Received the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998 ... He took time out of his career to spend four years in the U.S. military in World War II.

MORRIS B. BEECROFT, JR. (2012) Morris “Moss” Beecroft Jr. was a star amateur golfer in Virginia, playing (and sometimes beating) the likes of Davis Love III, , Curtis Strange and – all Golf Hall of Famers or about to be. Beecroft also dueled on the links with other notables such as , , Billy Joe Patton, Dale Morey, Eddie Pearce, Bill Campbell and Danny Yates III. Beecroft was runner-up in the 1991 U.S. Senior Amateur (where he was co-medalist), low amateur in the 1992 U.S. Senior Open while playing in three U.S. Senior Opens, six U.S. Senior Amateurs and three U.S. Amateurs. The longtime resident of Quail Ridge Country Club won the Virginia State Senior Match Play Championship six times and the Virginia State Senior Medal Play Championship twice. Little wonder Golf Digest ranked him third, seventh and 10th in annual rankings on the nation’s best senior amateurs during the 1990s. But Beecroft wasn’t content at becoming proficient in just one sport. Fact is, there were very few sports he didn’t excel at. He won the City of Newport News diving championship, not long before he won the state of Virginia High School pole vaulting championship. He also played on the basketball and tennis teams at Tennessee Wesleyan College. Yet golf was the primary reason why he was inducted into the Virginia Peninsula Athletic Hall of Fame – a precursor into getting elected into the Quail Ridge Sports Hall of Fame.

ROBERT E. COCHRAN, SR. (2012) Robert "Bob" Cochran Sr. enjoyed a thrill most top golfers never get to experience – he was invited to play in the Masters three times. He finished 47th in 1946 and missed the cut in 1961 and 1962, just part of a masterful amateur golf career that included six appearances in the U.S. Open and more than 40 amateur victories. He also played in 14 U.S. Amateurs and six U.S. Senior Amateurs, and finished second to Freddie Haas when Haas won the 1945 Memphis Invitational to end Byron Nelson’s streak of 11 consecutive PGA wins. He was runner-up to Joe Carr in the 1960 British Amateur. The St. Louis native won his District Golf Association Championship eight times, a feat topped only by a 32-year gap between his first and last titles. He also won the St. Louis District Senior Championship eight times during a 19-year span and the Missouri State Amateur four times. He was a member of the victorious 1961 U.S. Walker Cup team. Cochran, a longtime resident of Quail Ridge Country Club, was also involved in helping to run tournaments, not just win them. He was past President of the St. Louis District Golf Association, three-time President of the Missouri Golf Association and a 50-year member of the Missouri State Amateur Board and the USGA Board. Fittingly, when he died in 2003 while out walking in his neighborhood at 90, he was holding a golf club in his hand.

NORMAN SWENSON (2013)

Dubbed “Golf’s Ultimate Gentleman,” Norman Swenson went from a walk-on at Wake Forest to become one of the top Senior Amateur golfers, playing in events all over the world. He became a force in his 60s by winning more than a dozen top amateur events, including the European Senior Amateur, the New Zealand Senior Amateur, the Mexican Senior Amateur and the International Four-Ball, all in 2007. He was low U.S. Amateur at the 2001 British Senior Open and also played in four British Senior Amateurs. The longtime resident of Quail Ridge Country Club also was a distinguished member of the Royal & Ancient in Scotland and the Royal Devon in Britain.

CHES RIDDLE (2013)

Ches Riddle was an all state high school football and basketball player in Kentucky --he was offered a football scholarship by Bear Bryant and a basketball scholarship by Adolph Rupp, playing on the 1951 basketball national championship team – before turning his attention to golf. He won 68 medal-play events as an amateur, including the National Father-Son Championship twice, the Kentucky Father-Son Championship 13 times, the Kentucky Super Seniors three times, the Kentucky Senior Golf Championship twice and was runner-up in the American Senior. The longtime resident of Quail Ridge was on the Road Cup team twice and won the Husband-Wife Championship twice with Mary Jo.

RONNIE GROVE (2014)

Ronnie Grove won more than 40 amateur titles, including teaming up with his son, Hunter, to capture the National Father-Son Championship five times.

He qualified for the 1993 U.S. Senior Open and played in a pair of USGA Senior Amateurs. He also had victories in the North Carolina Senior Amateur, the Carolinas Senior Amateur and won the Gasparilla Invitational twice in Tampa. He has won nine club championships at Quail Ridge.

While living in North Carolina, Grove played many rounds with amateur legend, , who was featured in “The Greatest Match.” And Grove, a vice president at Merrill Lynch, was the one in 1980 who convinced former PGA Tour commissioner to start paying the golf professionals by direct deposit instead of by check.

BOB KUNTZ (2014)

Bob Kuntz was a star amateur golfer from New York who qualified to play in two major championships – the 1953 U.S. Open and the 1954 Masters.

He also qualified for U.S. Amateurs, U.S. Senior Amateurs, a British Amateur and a U.S. Senior Open. Kuntz was captain of the 1943 Yale team that won the national collegiate championship. He won the Metropolitan Amateur, the Metropolitan Junior and the Westchester Amateur.

Kuntz, whose brother Bill also was a star amateur golfer, was a member at Winged Foot, Seminole and Lost Tree before joining Quail Ridge.

Bob Kuntz was a star amateur golfer from New York who qualified to play in two major championships – the 1953 U.S. Open and the 1954 Masters.

He also qualified for U.S. Amateurs, U.S. Senior Amateurs, a British Amateur and a U.S. Senior Open. Kuntz was captain of the 1943 Yale team that won the national collegiate championship. He won the Metropolitan Amateur, the Metropolitan Junior and the Westchester Amateur.

Kuntz, whose brother Bill also was a star amateur golfer, was a member at Winged Foot, Seminole and Lost Tree before joining Quail Ridge.