Together with her victory within the Olympic ladies’s golf competitors at Le Golf Nationwide, Lydia Ko each received the gold medal and secured the ultimate level crucial for inclusion within the LPGA Corridor of Fame
The LPGA’s Corridor is completely different than the World Golf Corridor of Fame, with the previous being factors — not votes — based mostly.
Twenty-seven factors are wanted for entry. One level is given for every LPGA official match win and every Vare Trophy (lowest scoring common for a season) or Rolex Participant of the 12 months award. Two factors are awarded for every main victory and one other level is given for an Olympic gold medal.
Along with the mandatory 27 factors, gamers should have received or been awarded at the very least one of many following: an LPGA main, the Vare Trophy or Rolex POY honors.
Ko was sitting on 26 factors, having received an LPGA occasion in January and having met all the opposite necessities. The triumph in Paris gave right here the ultimate push.
The LPGA Corridor of Fame committee also can induct choose people via the Honorary Class, which it did for entertainer and match host Dinah Shore in 1994 and eight of the LPGA’s 13 co-founders in 2022 (denoted under by *).
In 1999, when the LPGA diminished its threshold from 35 factors to 27, it created a Veterans Class to permit for the potential induction of former gamers who would have certified underneath the altered situations (denoted under by **). The Veterans Class now not exists.
Right here’s a have a look at the 35 gamers at present within the LPGA Corridor of Fame:
- Patty Berg (Founder), 1951
- Betty Jameson (Founder), 1951
- Louise Suggs (Founder), 1951
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias (Founder), 1951
- Betsy Rawls, 1960
- Mickey Wright, 1964
- Kathy Whitworth, 1975
- Sandra Haynie, 1977
- Carol Mann,1977
- JoAnne Carner, 1982
- Nancy Lopez, 1987
- Pat Bradley, 1991
- Patty Sheehan, 1993
- Dinah Shore (singer/actress/match host), 1994*
- Betsy King, 1995
- Amy Alcott, 1999
- Beth Daniel, 1999
- Juli Inkster, 1999
- Judy Rankin, 2000**
- Donna Caponi, 2001**
- Marlene Bauer Hagge (Founder), 2002**
- Annika Sorenstam, 2003
- Karrie Webb, 2005
- Se Ri Pak, 2007
- Inbee Park, 2016
- Shirley Spork, (Founder), 2022*
- Marilynn Smith, (Founder), 2022*
- Sally Periods, (Founder), 2022*
- Opal Hill, (Founder), 2022*
- Helen Hicks, (Founder), 2022*
- Helen Dettweiler, (Founder), 2022*
- Bettye Danoff, (Founder), 2022*
- Alice Bauer, (Founder), 2022*
- Lorena Ochoa, 2022
- Lydia Ko, 2024
