Samuel Jackson Snead was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for the better part of four decades and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. Snead was awarded a record 94 gold medallions,for wins in PGA of America Tour events and later credited with winning a record 82 PGA Tour events tied with Tiger Woods,including seven majors. He never won the U.S. Open,though he was runner-up four times. Snead was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.
Curtis Northrup Strange is an American professional golfer and TV color commentator. He is the winner of consecutive U.S. Open titles and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. He spent over 200 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between their debut in 1986 and 1990.
The World Golf Hall of Fame was,until recently,located at World Golf Village between Jacksonville,Florida and St. Augustine,Florida,in the United States. It is unusual amongst sports halls of fame in that a single site honored both men and women. It is supported by a consortium of 26 golf organizations from all over the world. It is moving back to Pinehurst,North Carolina,with the new campus opening in 2024.
Mark Francis O'Meara is an American retired professional golfer. He was a tournament winner on the PGA Tour and around the world from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He spent nearly 200 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking from their debut in 1986 to 2000. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2015.
The Players Championship is an annual golf tournament on the PGA Tour. Originally known as the Tournament Players Championship,it began in 1974. The Players Championship at one point offered the highest purse of any tournament in golf. The field usually includes the top 50 players in the world rankings,but,unlike the major championships,it is owned by the PGA Tour and not an official event on other tours.
Ponte Vedra Beach is a wealthy unincorporated community and suburb of Jacksonville,Florida in St. Johns County,Florida,United States. Located in the Jacksonville metropolitan area,18 miles (29 km) southeast of downtown Jacksonville and 26 miles (42 km) north of St. Augustine,it is part of the Jacksonville Beaches area,and is situated on San Pablo Island.
Jerry Lanston "Lanny" Wadkins Jr. is an American professional golfer. He won 21 tournaments on the PGA Tour,including one major,the 1977 PGA Championship. He ranked in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking for 86 weeks from the ranking's debut in 1986 to 1988.
Loren Lloyd Roberts is an American professional golfer,who has played on the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions.
Albert Woody Austin II is an American professional golfer who played the majority of his career on the PGA Tour,but now plays on the PGA Tour Champions.
Deane R. Beman is an American professional golfer,golf administrator. He was the second commissioner of the PGA Tour,serving from 1974 to 1994.
Jonathan Andrew Kaye is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour.
Jim Laver Carter is an American professional golfer who plays on the Champions Tour. He has also played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.
The World Wide Technology Championship is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour in Mexico,contested at the Tiger Woods-designed El Cardonal golf course within the Diamante Cabo San Lucas resort. It debuted in February 2007 and was the first PGA Tour event to take place in Mexico. The first 16 years of the tournament took place in Riviera Maya before the tournament was moved to Los Cabos in 2023.
The National,originally titled for sponsorship reasons as the AT&T National and later as the Quicken Loans National,was a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour from 2007 to 2018. It was hosted by Tiger Woods and benefited the Tiger Woods Foundation. It was usually held either in late June or during the Fourth of July weekend in the Washington,D.C. area,except for 2010 and 2011 when it was held near Philadelphia.
Jay Delsing is an American professional golfer.
The PGA Tour is the organizer of professional golf tours in North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also known as the PGA Tour,as well as the PGA Tour Champions and the Korn Ferry Tour,as well as the PGA Tour Canada,PGA Tour Latinoamérica,and formerly the PGA Tour China. The PGA Tour is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach,Florida,a suburb southeast of Jacksonville.
First Tee is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the stated goal of improving children's life skills through golf lessons. Based in Ponta Vedra Beach,Florida,the organization claims to teach more than 3.6 million youth annually through programs across the country and internationally.
Fred Scobie Ridley is an American amateur golfer and golf administrator who won the U.S. Amateur in 1975,was elected president of the United States Golf Association (USGA) in 2004,and then became chairman of Augusta National Golf Club in 2017.
Joseph William "Jay" Monahan IV is the fourth and current commissioner of golf's PGA Tour. He ascended to this position in January 2017. Monahan previously served as executive director of The Players Championship.
Clyde Ellett "Tim" Collins,Jr. was an American professional golfer. He earned All-America honors two years at Virginia Tech in the mid-1960s and went on to play professionally on the PGA Tour. He was a native of Christiansburg,Virginia.
