PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Three-time main champion Padraig Harrington of Eire, the late Tom Weiskopf and the remaining founders of the LPGA Tour had been amongst these elected Wednesday for the World Golf Corridor of Fame.
The induction shall be June 10, 2024, the Monday forward of the U.S. Open in Pinehurst, North Carolina. The six inductees — the LPGA founders had been voted as one — signify the biggest class since six had been inducted in 2008.
Others to be elected by a 20-member panel of golf leaders, media and 4 Corridor of Fame members had been Sandra Palmer, whose 19 profession wins on the LPGA Tour included two majors; three-time main champion Beverly Hanson; and former U.S. Open champion Johnny Farrell.
Harrington and Palmer are the one two dwelling gamers who had been elected.
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Among the many finalists who didn’t get 75% of the voting had been swing coach Butch Harmon and Dottie Pepper, the two-time LPGA main champion and longtime golf analyst.
Harrington, a finalist within the earlier Corridor of Fame election, broke by means of for his first main by successful the British Open at Carnoustie in a playoff over Sergio Garcia. The next yr, he received the Open at Royal Birkdale after which added the PGA Championship at Oakland Hills.
“It is considerably humbling. At this stage of my life, it offers me some validation to what I’ve carried out in golf,” Harrington stated. “It is a deep-down satisfaction, and I am very proud to be included with the gamers earlier than me. Seeing your identify beside the names that I’ve appeared as much as as a boy and younger golfer, it is very good.”
Weiskopf, who died this previous August of pancreatic most cancers, received 16 occasions on the PGA Tour and captured his lone main at Royal Troon within the British Open. His contributions prolonged to golf structure and candid, unfailingly correct commentary on tv. His design work was identified for the brief par-4s, among the many most enjoyable and pleasurable holes.
Palmer went seven years earlier than successful her first LPGA occasion in 1971, after which she received with alarming regularity. Her first main was the 1975 U.S. Open.
“I am overcome with emotion and really grateful,” Palmer stated. “I simply could not consider it after I acquired the decision, that is my sixth time to be nominated. What an unbelievable group of ladies that I performed with through the years. I am positively going to have some champagne. It is a type of occasions that you simply sit down and your complete profession comes earlier than you.”
Hanson was famend not just for what she received however whom she beat. The North Dakota native received 17 occasions on the LPGA Tour and three majors. She received her first occasion as a professional by beating Babe Zaharias, and she or he received two of her majors by beating Louise Suggs.
Six of the 13 founders of the LPGA Tour beforehand had been inducted. The opposite seven had been nominated for the poll as a bunch — ladies who promoted the game, arrange the golf course, acted as guidelines officers and even wrote the paychecks. It was based in 1950 and has develop into probably the most profitable ladies’s sports activities league on the earth, providing some $100 million in prize cash with out ever getting outdoors assist from different golf leagues.
Farrell beforehand was a member of the PGA Corridor of Fame earlier than it moved to Florida beneath the identify World Golf Corridor of Fame. A 22-time winner, he was well-known for his one-shot victory in a 36-hole playoff in opposition to Bobby Jones within the 1928 U.S. Open. He spent the second half of his life as a membership professional at Quaker Ridge and Baltusrol.
