And what have we found out? We have discovered that, in case you need to run the World Golf Hall of Fame well, you need to position legendary golfers in price of it!
Geoff Shackelford jokingly referred to the "right people" making the choices now -- a reference to a Golf Channel blog post on the topic -- but he won't complain about the Class of 2015. The four inductees include his two "most overlooked names" -- Laura Davies and A.W. Tillinghast -- as well as David Graham and Mark O’Meara , two other players he felt had been unfairly passed over.
It's obvious that putting Nancy Lopez, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, and Annika Sorenstam in charge of the Selection Committee turned into certainly the right desire.
You can study the legitimate press release from the WGHoF at this hyperlink (there are extra hyperlinks at the lowest of that web page, which include one to a transcript of the conference name with the three residing inductees announcing the alternatives) however a few factors approximately the inductees do endure mentioning.
As Geoff Shackelford said, the induction of Laura Davies is lengthy past due. She has over 70 global wins and four majors, a ways extra than among the latest inductees into the Hall. She additionally has 12 appearances in the Solheim Cup. And but she has been denied admittance due to the fact she's 2 points brief of the LPGA's Hall of Fame necessities. (Ironically, I assume her induction nonetheless only counts in the "greater" Hall, no longer the LPGA's. She'll in all likelihood still be required to give you 2 more points for that one.)
Tillinghast is taken into consideration one of the maximum influential golf direction architects in history, having designed, revamped, or consulted on at the least 265 guides, in line with Wikipedia. Ever heard of Bethpage Black or Baltusrol? Those are simply of his creations. I consider something like 20 predominant championships have been held on his guides.
As for the alternative inductees, Mark O'Meara is the oldest player to win 2 majors in one year (the 1998 Masters and Open Championship) even as David Graham is one in every of simplest four players to win events on 6 continents. (Hale Irwin, Bernhard Langer and Gary Player are the opposite 3. To my information, nobody has won any event on Antarctica.) And both guys have over 20 global wins.
On a non-public note, I suppose one of the awesome weaknesses of the Hall inside the beyond has been the manner it minimized the significance of wins anywhere however within the USA. Perhaps the recent poundings Americans have taken on the Ryder Cup helped amend that mistakes? At any rate, I'm satisfied to see the WORLD Golf Hall of Fame in the end setting more fee on global wins.
The respectable induction could be held on the University of St Andrews all through the 2015 Open Championship at St. Andrews, the first time the Induction Ceremony has been held across the world. It's a becoming vicinity for some past wrongs to be righted, do not you observed?
Yeah, it is about time!
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