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In 2017, the Memorial Tournament will venture into The Great White Shark tank, the Captain"sClub announced on Sunday, naming former world No.1 Greg Norman one of its honorees.
A two-time British Open winner, the Australian will be inducted along with three former greatsposthumously major winners Tony Lema and Ken Venturi, and former amateur standout HarvieWard.
Norman, 61, is the headliner, and though some might remember him more for hisgut-wrenching losses in The Masters, the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship, aficionados know hewas the dominant player in the world at one point in his career. He once held the No.1 ranking for331 consecutive weeks in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
His British Open victories came in 1986 a season when he held the lead at some pointonSundayin all four major championships and in 1993. He finished second three times in theMasters, and twice each in the U.S. Open and PGA.
Norman was the PGA Tour leading money winner in 1986, 1990 and 1995, when he also was namedplayer of the year. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001, and by then was wellon his to a successful second career in golf course design and various other businesses, includingwineries and a golf academy.
Lema was a 22-time pro winner whose lone major victory came in the British Open in 1964. Knownas Champagne Tony for his penchant to treat the media to champagne after his victories, his lifewas cut short at 32 when he and his wife Betty died in a plane crash in 1966.
Venturi is best known to contemporary golf fans for being a long-time television analyst. But in1956 he made a bid to become the first amateur to win The Masters, falling by a stoke to Jack BurkeJr.
His lone major victory came in the U.S. Open in 1964, the final round played in torrid head atCongressional in Bethesda, Md. Carpal tunnel syndrome in both wrists short-circuited his playingcareer in 1967, but thats when he started to make his move to the analysts booth.
Ward, a native of Tarboro, N.C., gained fame as a stalwart amateur player, stepping up to winthe NCAA championship in 1949 while at North Carolina. He went on to win both the U.S. Amateur andthe British Amateur titles before becoming a respected teacher of the game.
Source: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/sports/2016/06/05/0605-2017-memorial-honoree.html
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