CONGRATS TO SE RI PAK!!!

[AnnikaFan]

I know this was mentioned briefly in the LPGA championship thread lost amongst the wie talk...and..this kind of achievement deserves its own thread anyways.

She qualified for the LPGA TOUR AND WORLD GOLF HALLS OF FAME by completing the first round of the LPGA Championship!

She'll be inducted on Nov 12.

The LPGA Tour halls of fame is one of the hardest sports hall of fame to get into..with only 22 achieved it before her..

First Korean to be inducted..and the single-handedly introduced competitive golf to korean females!

CONGRATS ON THE BRILLIANT CAREER!! Probably one of the only friendly rivals with Annika that I don't have some kind of beef with....but with that said...go annika this week!

http://www.lpga.com/content_1.aspx?mid=2&pid=11231

[iyell4]

a class act and graceful champion, that Se Ri is!:)

[ysong00]

thats awesome!!! shes really great. and if it wasn't for her i probably wouldn't have any friends to play golf with (most my golfing buddies are korean) :rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Golfbum]

a class act and graceful champion, that Se Ri is!:)

CUTE TOO ;) I have close up experience to prove that one!
She has done well in her career. She had a spell where she bascially quit golf. A lot of that was caused by being burnt out, being away from home. Now she is refreshed and back playing well again. I have always loved watching her golf from the moment she came to USA to play on the LPGA.

[iyell4]

Se Ri has joined some good company ...

1951 Patty Berg60 career victories
1951 Betty Jameson13 career victories
1951 Louise Suggs58 career victories
1951 Babe Didrikson Zaharias41 career victories
1960 Betsy Rawls55 career victories
1964 Mickey Wright82 career victories
1975 Kathy Whitworth88 career victories
1977 Sandra Haynie42 career victories
1977 Carol Mann38 career victories
1982 JoAnne Carner43 career victories
1987 Nancy Lopez48 career victories
1991 Pat Bradley31 career victories
1993 Patty Sheehan35 career victories
1994 Dinah Shore honorary member
1995 Betsy King34 career victories
1999 Amy Alcott29 career victories
1999 Beth Daniel33 career victories
1999 Juli Inkster30 career victories
2000 Judy Rankin26 career victories #
2001 Donna Caponi24 career victories #
2002 Marlene Hagge26 career victories #
2003 Annika Sorenstam49 career victories
2005 Karrie Webb30 career victories

# denotes Veteran's Category inductee

yeah, AF, judging from the size of the list dating back to 1951, they don't just let anyone onto the list.

[Grass Roots Tour]

1994 Dinah Shore honorary member

How come Dinah got in without the required wins?

[abz-pete]

a class act and graceful champion, that Se Ri is!:)

I agree, but it seems weird to me that someone not quite 30 years old is a Hall of Famer. She's younger than Tiger and her best golfing years could still be ahead of her. I always thought that being inducted into the Hall of Fame should come at the end of a great career...

[AnnikaFan]

1994 Dinah Shore honorary member

How come Dinah got in without the required wins?

She started the Kraft Nabisco Championship..and also has a scholarship fund under her name

http://www.wgv.com/hof/member.php?member=1104

Shore was an illuminating presence for women's golf. Since 1972, her eponymous tournament has been one of the LPGA's most visible. Shore's name helped insure network television coverage back when it was a precious commodity, which in turn helped her tournament set the curve for purse increases. Shore had such a lasting effect on the LPGA Tour that in 1994 she was posthumously made the only honorary member of its prestigious Hall of Fame. "This is not an honor given, it's an honor earned," then LPGA Commissioner Charles Mechem said.

Shore brought to the women's tour a star quality that was sorely missing. She invited many of the players to appear on her television variety show, and even hooked some up with commercial endorsements. "The tour was still Podunk when we went to Palm Springs, and suddenly we were celebrities," said Jane Blalock, the champion of the inaugural Dinah Shore. "It changed the perception of women's golf." So, too, did the champion's dive into the lake on Mission Hills' 18th, a frolicking tradition Shore and Amy Alcott started.

[iyell4]

1994 Dinah Shore honorary member

How come Dinah got in without the required wins?
:confused: um, 'sponsor's invitation/exemption' ... sounds like she belongs is a "Builders" category for the Hall of Fame separate from the "Players".