Leo Diegel - World Golf Hall of Fame, Year Inducted: 2003               

Leo Diegel won back-to-back PGA Championships in 1928-29. Leo Diegel's sensitive soul and hyperactive mind wouldn't rest as he pondered the complexity of the game. Known as one of the great shot makers, Diegel ... read more >>

Stephen Ames

Stephen Ames golfer on the PGA TOUR holding dual citizenship of Trinidad and Tobago and Canada. Ames is of English/Trinidadian Portuguese descent, and much of his family resides in the Caribbean nation. His grandmother was Trinidad and Tobago Champion 20 times. He grew up in Pointe-à-Pierre and learnt to play at the Petrotrin Pointe-à-... read more >>

Johnny Miller World Golf Hall of Fame: Year Inducted: 1996 

In golf's modern era, it's commonly understood that no player has ever achieved the brief but memorable brilliance of Johnny Miller.  In 1974 and 1975, Miller won 12 tournaments. More important than the number of the victories was the manner in which they were achieved, for... read more >>

Allan George Balding Inducted into the Candian Hall of Fame: 1968.

Al Balding’s victory at the 1955 Mayfair Open was a first for Canada - no other Canadian had won a PGA Tour event in the United States. He finished sixth on the PGA Tour money list in 1957, the highest of any Canadian. The Toronto native won both the CPGA championship and CPGA M... read more >>

Bing Crosby - World Golf Hall of Fame, Year Inducted:  1978

Throw out Jones and Palmer, and Bing Crosby may be the person most responsible for popularizing the game of golf. Since 1937 the Crosby Clambake-which now carries the heftier title AT Born Harry Lillis Crosby in 1904 in Tacoma, Wash. Crosby first took up the game at 12 as a ... read more >>

Ayako Okamoto World Golf Hall of Fame: Year Inducted: 2005      

Ayako Okamoto initially was an outstanding talent in softball before taking up golf.  Japan's Ayako Okamoto was 20 years old and playing a softball tournament in Hawaii when she had her first experience with golf. When she looked out the window of ... read more >>