<P> New members are inducted each year on the Monday before The Players Championship (previous to 2010 in October or November), and by May 2013 there were 146 members . Beginning in 2010, the ballots are due in July with the results announced later in the year . New entrants in the Lifetime Achievement and Veteran's categories are announced at irregular intervals . For example, Frank Chirkinian was elected in the Lifetime Achievement category in an emergency election in February 2011, with the vote presumably held because he was then terminally ill with lung cancer; when it became clear he would not live to attend his induction, he videotaped his acceptance speech in late February, less than two weeks before his death . </P> <P> Unless stated otherwise these men were inducted mainly for their on - course success . The exceptions mostly correspond with the lifetime achievement category, but not quite . For example, Charlie Sifford was notable as a player but was inducted for lifetime achievement . </P> <Ul> <Li> 1974 Walter Hagen </Li> <Li> 1974 Ben Hogan </Li> <Li> 1974 Bobby Jones </Li> <Li> 1974 Byron Nelson </Li> <Li> 1974 Jack Nicklaus </Li> <Li> 1974 Francis Ouimet </Li> <Li> 1974 Arnold Palmer </Li> <Li> 1974 Gary Player </Li> <Li> 1974 Gene Sarazen </Li> <Li> 1974 Sam Snead </Li> <Li> 1974 Harry Vardon </Li> <Li> 1975 Willie Anderson </Li> <Li> 1975 Fred Corcoran--many - faceted promoter and administrator </Li> <Li> 1975 Joseph Dey--executive director of the USGA and the first commissioner of the PGA Tour </Li> <Li> 1975 Chick Evans </Li> <Li> 1975 Young Tom Morris </Li> <Li> 1975 John Henry Taylor </Li> <Li> 1976 Tommy Armour </Li> <Li> 1976 James Braid </Li> <Li> 1976 Old Tom Morris </Li> <Li> 1976 Jerome Travers </Li> <Li> 1977 Bobby Locke </Li> <Li> 1977 John Ball </Li> <Li> 1977 Herb Graffis--golf writer and founder of the U.S. National Golf Foundation </Li> <Li> 1977 Donald Ross--golf course architect </Li> <Li> 1978 Billy Casper </Li> <Li> 1978 Harold Hilton </Li> <Li> 1978 Bing Crosby--celebrity friend of golf who founded his own PGA Tour event </Li> <Li> 1978 Clifford Roberts--co-founder of the Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters Tournament </Li> <Li> 1979 Walter Travis </Li> <Li> 1980 Henry Cotton </Li> <Li> 1980 Lawson Little </Li> <Li> 1981 Ralph Guldahl </Li> <Li> 1981 Lee Trevino </Li> <Li> 1982 Julius Boros </Li> <Li> 1983 Jimmy Demaret </Li> <Li> 1983 Bob Hope--celebrity friend of golf who founded his own PGA Tour event </Li> <Li> 1986 Cary Middlecoff </Li> <Li> 1987 Robert Trent Jones--golf course architect </Li> <Li> 1988 Bob Harlow--promoter who played a key role in the early development of the PGA Tour </Li> <Li> 1988 Peter Thomson </Li> <Li> 1988 Tom Watson </Li> <Li> 1989 Jim Barnes </Li> <Li> 1989 Roberto De Vicenzo </Li> <Li> 1989 Raymond Floyd </Li> <Li> 1990 William C. Campbell--two - time President of the USGA </Li> <Li> 1990 Gene Littler </Li> <Li> 1990 Paul Runyan </Li> <Li> 1990 Horton Smith </Li> <Li> 1992 Harry Cooper </Li> <Li> 1992 Hale Irwin </Li> <Li> 1992 Chi Chi Rodriguez </Li> <Li> 1992 Richard Tufts--ran Pinehurst and served as President of the USGA </Li> <Li> 1996 Johnny Miller </Li> <Li> 1997 Seve Ballesteros </Li> <Li> 1997 Nick Faldo </Li> <Li> 1998 Lloyd Mangrum </Li> <Li> 2000 Jack Burke, Jr . </Li> <Li> 2000 Deane Beman--Commissioner of the PGA Tour 1974 - 1994 </Li> <Li> 2000 Michael Bonallack--British golf administrator </Li> <Li> 2000 Neil Coles--first Chairman of the PGA European Tour </Li> <Li> 2000 John Jacobs--first Tournament Director of the European Tour </Li> <Li> 2001 Bernhard Langer (inducted with 2002 class) </Li> <Li> 2001 Greg Norman </Li> <Li> 2001 Payne Stewart </Li> <Li> 2001 Allan Robertson </Li> <Li> 2001 Karsten Solheim--golf equipment manufacturer and founder of the Solheim Cup </Li> <Li> 2002 Ben Crenshaw </Li> <Li> 2002 Tony Jacklin </Li> <Li> 2002 Tommy Bolt </Li> <Li> 2002 Harvey Penick--golf instructor </Li> <Li> 2003 Nick Price </Li> <Li> 2003 Leo Diegel </Li> <Li> 2004 Charlie Sifford </Li> <Li> 2004 Isao Aoki </Li> <Li> 2004 Tom Kite </Li> <Li> 2005 Bernard Darwin--golf writer </Li> <Li> 2005 Alister MacKenzie--golf course architect </Li> <Li> 2005 Willie Park, Sr . </Li> <Li> 2005 Vijay Singh (inducted with 2006 class) </Li> <Li> 2006 Larry Nelson </Li> <Li> 2006 Henry Picard </Li> <Li> 2006 Mark McCormack--sports agent who represented many top golfers; the developer of golf's first world ranking system, adapted into today's Official World Golf Ranking </Li> <Li> 2007 Joe Carr </Li> <Li> 2007 Hubert Green </Li> <Li> 2007 Charles B. Macdonald--inaugural U.S. Amateur champion, founding Vice-President of the USGA and "Father of American Golf Architecture" </Li> <Li> 2007 Kel Nagle </Li> <Li> 2007 Curtis Strange </Li> <Li> 2008 Bob Charles </Li> <Li> 2008 Pete Dye--golf course architect </Li> <Li> 2008 Denny Shute </Li> <Li> 2008 Herbert Warren Wind--golf writer </Li> <Li> 2008 Craig Wood </Li> <Li> 2009 Christy O'Connor Snr </Li> <Li> 2009 José María Olazábal </Li> <Li> 2009 Lanny Wadkins </Li> <Li> 2009 Dwight D. Eisenhower--former U.S. President </Li> <Li> 2011 Ernie Els </Li> <Li> 2011 Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki </Li> <Li> 2011 Doug Ford </Li> <Li> 2011 Jock Hutchison </Li> <Li> 2011 Frank Chirkinian--television producer, known as the' father of televised golf' for the impact he had on golf broadcasting . </Li> <Li> 2011 George H.W. Bush--former U.S. President </Li> <Li> 2012 Phil Mickelson </Li> <Li> 2012 Dan Jenkins--golf writer </Li> <Li> 2012 Sandy Lyle </Li> <Li> 2012 Peter Alliss </Li> <Li> 2013 Fred Couples </Li> <Li> 2013 Ken Venturi </Li> <Li> 2013 Willie Park, Jr . </Li> <Li> 2013 Colin Montgomerie </Li> <Li> 2013 Ken Schofield </Li> <Li> 2015 David Graham </Li> <Li> 2015 Mark O'Meara </Li> <Li> 2015 A.W. Tillinghast--golf course architect </Li> <Li> 2017 Henry Longhurst--golf writer and commentator </Li> <Li> 2017 Davis Love III </Li> <Li> 2017 Ian Woosnam </Li> </Ul> <Li> 1974 Walter Hagen </Li>

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