World Golf Hall of Fame Members By Year & Category Inducted
The World Golf Hall of Fame & Museum is home to the game’s greatest players and contributors. Those recognized within the Hall of Fame & Museum represent individuals who have positively impacted the game of golf on the grandest scale. Golfers, both professional and amateur, architects, journalists, innovators and teachers are among those celebrated within the Hall of Fame.
Class of 2013 Class of 2005 Fred Couples (PGA TOUR Ballot) Bernard Darwin (Lifetime Achievement) Colin Montgomerie (International Ballot) Alister MacKenzie (Lifetime Achievement) Willie Park Jr. (Veterans Category) Ayako Okamoto (International Ballot) Ken Schofield (Lifetime Achievement) Willie Park Sr. (Veterans Category) Ken Venturi (Lifetime Achievement) Karrie Webb (LPGA Points Criteria)
Class of 2012 Class of 2004 Phil Mickelson (PGA TOUR Ballot) Isao Aoki (International Ballot) Hollis Stacy (Veterans Category) Tom Kite (PGA TOUR Ballot) Dan Jenkins (Lifetime Achievement) Charlie Sifford (Lifetime Achievement Category) Peter Alliss (Lifetime Achievement) Marlene Stewart Streit (Veterans Category) Sandy Lyle (International Ballot) Class of 2003 Class of 2011 Leo Diegel (Veterans Category) George H.W. Bush (Lifetime Achievement) Hisako “Chako” Higuchi (Lifetime Achievement Category) Frank Chirkinian (Lifetime Achievement) Nick Price (PGA TOUR Ballot) Ernie Els (PGA TOUR Category) Annika Sorenstam (LPGA Points Criteria) Doug Ford (Veterans Category) Class of 2002 Jock Hutchison (Veterans Category) Tommy Bolt (Veterans Category) Jumbo Ozaki (International Ballot) Ben Crenshaw (PGA TOUR Ballot)
Marlene Hagge (Veterans Category) Class of 2009 Tony Jacklin (International Ballot) Dwight D. Eisenhower (Lifetime Achievement) Bernhard Langer (International Ballot) Christy O’Connor, Sr. (Veterans Category) Harvey Penick (Lifetime Achievement Category) Jose Maria Olazabal (International Ballot)
Lanny Wadkins (PGA TOUR Ballot) Class of 2001 Class of 2008 Judy Bell (Lifetime Achievement Category) Bob Charles (Veterans Category) Donna Caponi (Veterans Category) Pete Dye (Lifetime Achievement) Greg Norman (PGA TOUR Ballot) Carol Semple Thompson (Lifetime Achievement) Allan Robertson (Veterans Category) Denny Shute (Veterans Category) Karsten Solheim (Lifetime Achievement Category) Herbert Warren Wind (Lifetime Achievement) Payne Stewart PGA TOUR Ballot) Craig Wood (PGA TOUR Ballot) Class of 2000 Class of 2007 Deane Beman (Lifetime Achievement Category) Joe Carr (Lifetime Achievement) Sir Michael Bonallack (Lifetime Achievement Category) Hubert Green (Veterans Category) Jack Burke Jr. (Veterans Category) Charles Blair Macdonald (Lifetime Achievement) Neil Coles (Lifetime Achievement Category) Kel Nagle (Veterans Category) Beth Daniel (LPGA Points Criteria) Se Ri Pak (LPGA Points Criteria) Juli Inkster (LPGA Points Criteria) Curtis Strange (PGA TOUR Ballot) John Jacobs (Lifetime Achievement Category) Judy Rankin (Veterans Category) Class of 2006 Mark McCormack (Lifetime Achievement) Class of 1999 Larry Nelson (PGA TOUR Ballot) Amy Alcott (LPGA Points Criteria) Henry Picard (Veterans Category) Seve Ballesteros (International Ballot) Vijay Singh (PGA TOUR Ballot0 Lloyd Mangrum (PGA TOUR Ballot) Marilynn Smith (Lifetime Achievement) Class of 1998 Nick Faldo (International Ballot)
Johnny Miller (PGA TOUR Ballot)
-more- The following were grandfathered into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1998 via the former Hall of Fame in Pinehurst, N.C.
Willie Anderson Sandra Haynie Clifford Roberts Tommy Armour Ben Hogan Chi Chi Rodriguez John Ball Harold Hilton Donald Ross Jim Barnes Bob Hope Paul Runyan Patty Berg Dorothy Campbell Hurd Howe Gene Sarazen Julius Boros Hale Irwin Patty Sheehan Pat Bradley Betty Jameson * Dinah Shore James Braid Robert Trent Jones Sr. Horton Smith William C. Campbell Robert Tyre Jones Jr. Sam Snead JoAnne Carner Betsy King Louise Suggs Billy Casper Lawson Little John H. Taylor Harry Cooper Gene Littler Peter Thomson Henry Cotton Bobby Locke Jerome Travers Fred Corcoran Nancy Lopez Walter Travis Bing Crosby Carol Mann Lee Trevino Jimmy Demaret Cary Middlecoff Richard Tufts Roberto De Vicenzo Tom Morris Jr. Harry Vardon Joseph C. Dey Tom Morris Sr. Glenna C. Vare Chick Evans Byron Nelson Tom Watson Raymond Floyd Jack Nicklaus Joyce Wethered Herb Graffis Francis Ouimet Kathy Whitworth Ralph Guldahl Arnold Palmer Mickey Wright Walter Hagen Gary Player Babe Zaharias Bob Harlow Betsy Rawls
*Jameson was grandfathered into the World Golf Hall of Fame from the LPGA Hall of Fame, where she was a Charter member in 1951.