Michigan Golf Hall of Fame – Class of 2006

MichiganMichigan GolfGolf HallHall ofof FameFame –– ClassClass ofof 20062006 By Jack Berry he 2006 class of the laughing now. Michigan Golf Hall of Fame “He wanted relief,” she said. “I Traised hall membership to looked, said ‘No relief,’ and got 74 and covered a wide spectrum of back in the cart and got out of the game, from the professional there.” tour to the highest rank of amateur Myers since has been a Rules golf to a dedicated club profession- official in more than 60 national al and an administrator and a championships including the woman trailblazer. men’s and women’s U.S. Opens The inductees at the May 21 din- and she has worked numerous ner at Indianwood Golf and Country Michigan PGA and Golf Club in Lake Orion were Ray Bolo, Association of Michigan tourna- Tom Chisholm, John Grace, John ments. Morse and Jeanne Myers. “Now I’m known as Mean tesy of the Michigan Golf Hall Fame Jeanne,” she said, laughing. yers was the fifth A former women’s champion at Photo cour inductee and left the Oakland Hills, Myers is the first Jeanne Myers Mlarge audience in the woman to become president of the club’s Great Hall leaving with GAM and was on the USGA laughs and smiles as she related Women’s Committee for 13 years, stories of her earliest times as a chairing it for two years. She will rules official. captain the American team in the “The time is 99 percent bore- World Amateur Championship in dom and 1 percent fear,” said South Africa this fall and was Myers who scored a 97 in the first with the winning American Curtis 3-1/2 hour rules examination. Cup team in England in 2004. She was one of the first women Myers authored the USGA’s to officiate a men’s tournament and Equitable Stroke Control proce- when she got a radio call for a dure and helped set up the Slope decision she headed in her golf cart course rating system. She has to the spot and when the players rated more than 100 Michigan tesy of the Michigan Golf Hall Fame saw her coming “He said blankety- courses. blank they sent me a blankety- blank woman,” Myers recalled, Photo cour Tom Chisholm 6 S U M M E R 2 0 0 6 • M I C H I G A N G O L F E R M A G A Z I N E Golf in Ireland… Where Heaven & Earth Meet * Home to Ryder Cup in 2006 * 250,000 Golfers Visit Ireland annually for Golf * Best Established Golf Destination Winner * Three Links Courses in Worlds Top Ten * A Landmark of Hospitality & Home to Guinness! For More Information Visit http://www.sullivangolf.ie or Call 011 353 69 77377 hisholm also is a past GAM member of the University of Texas and served as professional at the president who has devoted golf team, always one of the club where he grew up, Marshall Cyears of volunteer service nation’s best, and his national Country Club, from 1999-2002. on USGA and GAM committees record as an amateur includes play- Now his eye is on getting ready for and was a member of the USGA ing in 35 USGA championships, the Champions Tour. MG Executive Committee. He has been from junior to mid-amateur and especially dedicated to working senior topped by reaching the with the Golf Course Superinten- final of the 1974 Amateur champi- dents Association of America to onship where he lost to Jerry Pate, combat criticism that golf courses 2-1. jeopardize the environment. He In 1975 Grace played on the worked on funding turfgrass winning U.S. Walker Cup team on research at Michigan State the Old Course at St. Andrews University and MSU now has the with Pate, Jay Haas, Craig Stadler, largest turfgrass information file in Curtis Strange, George Burns, Bill the world. Campbell, Vinny Giles, Gary Chisholm served on both the Koch and Dick Siderowf. USGA Green Committee (as chair- Grace has won the Texas Open man) and the Museum and Library and Senior Open, turned profes- Committee. sional as a senior and played four years on the European Senior Tour, winning its championship in he Indianwood ceremony tesy of the Michigan Golf Hall Fame was something of a home- 2000. He applied last year for coming for Bolo who was reinstatement as an amateur. T Photo cour an assistant professional at the club before being appointed profession- orse grew up in Ray Bolo al at Western where he served 37 Marshall, went to the years, a length of service at one MUniversity of Michigan, club rarely matched. Bolo was won the Big Ten championship in known for fostering junior golf at 1980 and was an All-American. the historic Donald Ross-designed He was unsuccessful in a bid for course. He now lives in South PGA Tour card so he went to Carolina. Asia, Australia and Europe. He While Bolo tended to golf’s won the Australian Open and home fires, Grace and Morse Australian Masters against fields played across the nation and across that included Greg Norman, Ian the oceans after outstanding Baker-Finch and Craig Parry, won careers in Michigan. Both won the the Air New Zealand Open and Michigan Amateur, Grace in 1971 after two years playing in Europe, and Morse in 1978. returned to the U.S. and joined the Nike Tour and won the New race was born in Texas but England Classic. moved to Michigan when His Nike Tour performance Ghe was 12 and remained propelled him to the PGA Tour here for 14 years until returning to and victory in the Hawaiian Open Texas. While in Michigan he won and he was in the hunt for the tesy of the Michigan Golf Hall Fame the GAM Championship three 1996 U.S. Open and finished times, the Horton Smith and fourth at Oakland Hills. Morse Photo cour Michigan Medal Play. Grace was a returned to hometown Marshall John Grace 8 S U M M E R 2 0 0 6 • M I C H I G A N G O L F E R M A G A Z I N E.

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