Dame Laura Davies to be inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame in class of 2015
Wednesday 15 October 2014 16:53, UK
Dame Laura Davies has been chosen for induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2015.
The 51-year-old will be joined by two-time major champions Mark O'Meara and David Graham and course architect A.W. Tillinghast at the ceremony at St Andrews next year.
Davies has long been regarded as Britain's greatest female golfer having won four majors - the 1994 and ’96 LPGA Championship, the 1987 US Women’s Open and the 1996 du Maurier Classic - and 84 worldwide titles, including 45 on the Ladies European Tour.
She was the leading money winner in 1994 and the Player of the Year in 1996.
“I think it’s the pinnacle,” she said. “If you’ve had a great and long career, the one thing that you want is to end up in the Hall of Fame. To get the call is icing on the cake.”
O'Meara's golden year came in 1998 when he won both the Masters and The Open making him, at 41, the oldest player to win two majors in a year.
Graham won the 1979 PGA Championship at Oakland Hills Country Club and the 1981 U.S. Open at Merion and he is one of only four players to have won events on six continents.
Tillinghast, who died in 1942 at the age of 68, was a prolific architect who designed over 100 courses in the United States, including Bethpage State Park, and wrote a number of books on the game.
