Judy Bell (born September 23, 1936) is an American amateur golfer and golf administrator. She was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001 in the Lifetime Achievement category, which honors people who have made an exceptional contribution to the sport in areas outside of tournament wins.
19-2334: Highest award by the United States Golf Association The Bob Jones Award is the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. It is named in honor of Bobby Jones . Winners [ edit ] 1955 Francis Ouimet 1956 William C. Campbell 1957 Babe Zaharias 1958 Margaret Curtis 1959 Findlay S. Douglas 1960 Chick Evans 1961 Joe Carr 1962 Horton Smith 1963 Patty Berg 1964 Charles Coe 1965 Glenna Collett Vare 1966 Gary Player 1967 Richard Tufts 1968 Bob Dickson 1969 Gerald Micklem 1970 Roberto De Vicenzo 1971 Arnold Palmer 1972 Michael Bonallack 1973 Gene Littler 1974 Byron Nelson 1975 Jack Nicklaus 1976 Ben Hogan 1977 Joseph Dey 1978 Bing Crosby and Bob Hope 1979 Tom Kite 1980 Charlie Yates 1981 JoAnne Carner 1982 Billy Joe Patton 1983 Maureen Ruttle Garrett 1984 Jay Sigel 1985 Fuzzy Zoeller 1986 Jess Sweetser 1987 Tom Watson 1988 Isaac B. Grainger 1989 Chi-Chi Rodríguez 1990 Peggy Kirk Bell 1991 Ben Crenshaw 1992 Gene Sarazen 1993 P. J. Boatwright, Jr. 1994 Lewis Oehmig 1995 Herbert Warren Wind 1996 Betsy Rawls 1997 Fred Brand, Jr. 1998 Nancy Lopez 1999 Ed Updegraff 2000 Barbara McIntire 2001 Tom Cousins 2002 Judy Rankin 2003 Carol Semple Thompson 2004 Jack Burke Jr. 2005 Nick Price 2006 Jay Haas 2007 Louise Suggs 2008 George H. W. Bush 2009 O. Gordon Brewer, Jr. 2010 Mickey Wright 2011 Lorena Ochoa 2012 Annika Sörenstam 2013 Davis Love III 2014 Payne Stewart 2015 Barbara Nicklaus 2016 Judy Bell 2017 Bob Ford 2018 Dennis Walters 2019 Lee Elder 2020 Pak Se-Ri 2021 Bob Lewis 2022 Juli Inkster 2023 Johnny Miller 2024 Tiger Woods References [ edit ] ^ USGA honors Brewer with Bob Jones Award Archived October 3, 2008, at
38-493: A replica of the U.S. Open trophy and won a trip for two to Pebble Beach for the next year's event. Judy Bell Bell was born in Wichita, Kansas and took up golf at the age of ten, winning the girls' division in her first event - in a field of one. In 1952 she lost to Mickey Wright in the semi-finals of the U.S. Girls' Junior, which was to remain her best result in a United States Golf Association (USGA) event. She won
57-749: The Broadmoor Golf Club Invitation three times and played for the United States in the Curtis Cup in 1960 and 1962. In 1967 she shot 67 in the U.S. Women's Open , which remained a record for 14 years. Bell became a USGA volunteer in 1961, when she was a member of the Junior Championship Committee. In the 1970s she became a rules official. She later served on the Women's Committee and in 1987 became
76-558: The Fox TV network . In August 2018, she left to become the 20th chief executive officer of the United States Olympic Committee . The USGA organizes or co-organizes the following competitions: An "open" golf championship is one that both professionals and amateurs may enter. In practice, such events are always won by professionals nowadays. The two leading opens in the U.S. are: The last win by an amateur at
95-1367: The Wayback Machine ^ Wright to receive 2010 Bob Jones Award from USGA Archived June 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine ^ "USGA to honor Judy Bell with Bob Jones Award" . ESPN . January 14, 2016. ^ "Bob Ford first club pro to win Bob Jones Award" . ESPN . Associated Press. February 8, 2017. ^ Driscoll, Janeen (April 9, 2018). "Dennis Walters to Receive 2018 USGA Bob Jones Award" . USGA. ^ Driscoll, Janeen (February 23, 2019). "Lee Elder to Receive USGA Bob Jones Award" . USGA. ^ Vohden, Danny (January 14, 2020). "Pak to Receive USGA's Highest Honor: 2020 Bob Jones Award" . USGA. ^ "USGA Selects Juli Inkster as 2022 Bob Jones Award Winner" . LPGA. February 18, 2022. ^ "Johnny Miller honored by USGA on U.S. Open win 50th anniversary" . ESPN . Associated Press. June 14, 2023. ^ Leonard, Tod (March 2, 2024). "Tiger Woods receives USGA's Bob Jones Award" . Golf Digest . External links [ edit ] USGA - Bob Jones Award Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Jones_Award&oldid=1236725039 " Categories : Golf awards in
114-628: The governing body of golf for the U.S. and Mexico. Together with The R&A , the USGA produces and interprets the rules of golf . The USGA also provides a national handicap system for golfers, conducts 14 national championships, including the U.S. Open , U.S. Women's Open and U.S. Senior Open , and tests golf equipment for conformity with regulations. The USGA and the USGA Museum are located in Liberty Corner, New Jersey . In 2024,
133-483: The U.S. Amateur and U.S. Women's Amateur became increasingly dominated by future tournament professionals , two national championships were added in the 1980s for "career amateurs" who were 25 years of age & older: These team events were announced by the USGA in 2013 as the replacements for the discontinued Public Links championships and played for the first time in 2015. Both are contested by two-member teams in four-ball matches. Partners are not required to be from
152-403: The U.S. Open was 91 years ago in 1933 and an amateur has won the women's event only once, 57 years ago in 1967 . The USGA also conducts the U.S. Senior Open for competitors 50 and over. This is one of the five majors recognized by the world's dominant tour for golfers 50 and over, PGA Tour Champions . The overwhelming majority of the competitors play regularly on this tour. Many of
171-404: The U.S. Women's Amateur Championship, thus becoming the first African-American woman to play in a national championship conducted by the USGA. In 2011, Sarah Hirshland became the senior managing director of business affairs for the USGA. In April 2018, she was promoted to chief commercial officer. She brought the USGA partnerships with major corporations and negotiated a billion-dollar deal with
190-595: The USGA moved its Testing Center from Liberty Corner, New Jersey to Pinehurst, North Carolina. The Testing Center is where all golf clubs and golf balls manufactured in the United States and Mexico are tested for conformance to the Rules of Golf. The USGA was originally formed in 1894 to resolve the question of a national amateur championship. Earlier that year, the Newport Country Club and Saint Andrew's Golf Club , Yonkers , New York, both declared
209-616: The United States Sportsmanship trophies and awards Awards established in 1955 1955 establishments in the United States Hidden categories: Webarchive template wayback links Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata United States Golf Association The United States Golf Association ( USGA ) is the United States national association of golf courses , clubs and facilities and
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#1732791886085228-766: The United States and a joint team representing Great Britain and Ireland (in political terms, Ireland and the United Kingdom). Through its membership of the International Golf Federation the USGA is involved in the administration of the two "World Amateur Team Championships", which are played biennially in even-numbered years. There had been two events for "public-course" golfers, but the USGA announced in 2013 that both would be discontinued after their 2014 editions. Members of private golf clubs were excluded from these championships. Only nine golfers have won more than one USGA individual event in
247-571: The first woman on the executive committee. In 1996 she was elected as the 54th President of the USGA, the first woman to hold the senior office in American golf. During her tenure and subsequently she played a leading role in programs to take golf to youth, minorities and the disabled. Bell has been inducted into 11 halls of fame, including the World Golf Hall of Fame. She was among the first women to receive an honorary lifetime membership at
266-919: The remaining players compete on the European counterpart of PGA Tour Champions, the European Senior Tour , which recognizes the U.S. Senior Open as one of its three majors. The USGA added a women's counterpart in 2018. Professional golf in the US is mainly run by the PGA Tour , the LPGA , and the PGA of America . However, the USGA organizes the 10 national amateur championships. The leading events are open to all age groups, but are usually won by golfers in their early twenties: There are two championships for players under age 19: And two for senior golfers: Because
285-562: The same club, political subdivision, or country. The USGA men's and women's state team championships were first conducted in 1995 as a part of the USGA's Centennial celebration. The two championships were conducted biennially in odd-numbered years through 2009. Since 2010, the men's championship has been conducted in even-numbered years and the women's championship in odd-numbered years. According to NCAA rules, college golfers are not eligible. The USGA, in cooperation with The R&A , co-organizes two biennial amateur team competitions between
304-563: The same year: Six people have won three different USGA individual events in their careers: Fifty–two other people have won two different USGA individual events in their careers, and three have won USGA individual and team events: Note: Multiple winners of individual events can be found in that event's article. The USGA partnered with World Golf Tour in 2009 to co-host the first annual Virtual USGA Championship online. The Virtual U.S. Open attracted hundreds of thousands of players from more than 180 countries. The first-place winner took home
323-543: The winners of their tournaments the "national amateur champion." That autumn, delegates from Newport, St. Andrew's, The Country Club , Chicago Golf Club , and Shinnecock Hills Golf Club met in New York City to form a national governing body, which would administer the championship and also the Rules of Golf for the country. On December 22, 1894, the Amateur Golf Association of the United States
342-658: Was held the following day, almost as an afterthought. It was not until 1898 that the two events were held at separate clubs. Today, the USGA administers 14 separate national championships, ten of which are expressly for amateurs. The USGA gradually expanded its membership from the original five clubs. There were 267 club members in 1910, and 1,138 clubs by 1932. Membership fell off during the Great Depression and World War II , but recovered by 1947. By 1980 there were over 5,000 clubs, and today membership exceeds 9,700. On September 17, 1956, Ann Gregory began competing in
361-478: Was officially formed, and was shortly thereafter renamed the "United States Golf Association". Theodore Havemeyer was the first president, and the U.S. Amateur trophy is named in his honor. The first U.S. Amateur was held in 1895 at the Newport Country Club, with Charles B. Macdonald (who was runner-up at both of the previous year's tournaments) winning the championship. The first U.S. Open
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