The World Golf Hall of Fame announced that broadcaster and former Ryder Cupper David Feherty will host the organization’s 2022 induction ceremony, which will air live on Golf Channel March 9 at 7 p.m.
The ceremony will take place on the eve of the Players Championship at PGA Tour headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, honoring inductees Susie Maxwell Berning, Tim Finchem, Marion Hollins and Tiger Woods.
“As someone who has been around golf practically my entire life, I know firsthand that the highest possible honor in our sport is the immortality that is reserved for members of the World Golf Hall of Fame,” said Feherty. “I’m thrilled to contribute in some small way to what will be a historic evening as the Hall of Fame honors its new inductees.”
The addition of four newest inductees will bring the total number of Hall of Fame members to 164.
Golf journalist Larry Dorman was named the recipient of the Tim Rosaforte Distinguished Writers Award last week at the Honda Classic.
Dorman has covered the game for The Miami Herald, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, The National sports daily and The New York Times, often working alongside and competing with Rosaforte as the two became close friends.
The award was created in 2021 and named for Rosaforte, the first recipient who lost his battle with Alzheimer’s Disease on Jan. 11, 2022.
The Honda Classic also honored Rosaforte by renaming the event’s work area for golf journalists as the “Tim Rosaforte Media Center.”
“To be named the second recipient of the Tim Rosaforte Distinguished Writers Award, just a few weeks after Tim’s passing in January, is humbling, overwhelming and an unexpected honor," Dorman said. “It’s an award I never presumed I would win, and the one I certainly will cherish the rest of my days.”
England Golf has unveiled its women’s squad for 2022, including Curtis Cup veterans Annabell Fuller, Charlotte Heath and Caley McGinty, plus Rosie Belsham, Mimi Rhodes and Amelia Williamson. All six were playing members or reserves in the teams that won gold at last year’s European Ladies’ Team Championship and retained the Home International title.
The half dozen also are products of both the England Golf player pathway and the U.S. college system. Each has enjoyed individual and team success in the latter, but none more so than McGinty who is a five-time winner at Kent State. She and Fuller also will represent their country in April at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur.
The squad has three targets for the season: to complete a Home International hat-trick at Ballyliffin in Ireland; to defend European gold at Conwy in Wales; and to become the first English team to lift the Espirito Santo Trophy at the World Championship in France, the first edition of the tournament in four years.
Golf Canada is enhancing its high-performance program to accelerate the nation’s position in the global professional landscape.Canada’s National Sport Federation announced a new framework for its player development program in an attempt to increase the number of Canadians on the LPGA and PGA Tour to 30 by 2032.The enhancements to the program will be presented this week by chief sport officer Kevin Blue at Golf Canada’s annual general meeting.“Canada has made significant progress in the development of world-class golfers in the past decade and is poised to take another step forward,” Blue said.
The larger investments in player development will be supported with gifts totaling $13.5 million through the Golf Canada Foundation. Paul McLean, chief executive officer of Turf Care and former president of Golf Canada and Golf Canada Foundation, has made a lead gift of $5 million – the largest gift the high-performance program has received.
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