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Bob Rosburg Rosburg, another native San
5
George Archer Billy Casper once described
Archer as “sort of a question mark bent over the ball.” This was Casper’s creative way of convey- ing Archer’s uncommon height (6-foot- 6), but it didn’t stop him from becoming one of the game’s best putters. Archer, a
George Archer
San Francisco native who attended San Mateo High and later lived on a ranch in Gilroy, won 13 times on the PGA Tour, including the 1969 Masters. He also won 19 events on the Champions Tour.
RESUME: • 13 PGA Tour wins • Masters (1969) • 19 Champions Tour wins • 1 NCGA Stroke Play Championship (1960)
Olin Dutra His 10 PGA Tour wins include the 1932 PGA Championship and the ’34 U.S. Open, in which he overcame a painful intes- tinal infection and an eight- shot defi cit after 36 holes. Dutra, born and raised in the Monterey area, came back to edge Sarazen by one shot.
6 Olin Dutra
RESUME: • 10 PGA Tour wins • PGA Championship (1932), U.S. Open (1934)
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Franciscan, won the 1959 PGA Championship and twice fi nished second in the U.S. Open. He grew up playing Lincoln Park and later starred in baseball and golf at Stanford. Rosburg won six times in all on the PGA Tour.
RESUME: • 6 PGA Tour wins • PGA Championship (1959) • 1 NCGA Amateur (1950) • 1 NCGA Junior Championship (1944)
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Bob Lunn It’s easy to forget about Lunn,
who was Miller’s teammate at Lincoln High (Lunn is two years older). But Lunn won the U.S. Amateur Public Links in ’63, tied for third in the 1970 U.S. Open and nabbed six PGA Tour wins, including tournaments in which he outlasted Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Lee Trevino.
RESUME: • 6 PGA Tour wins • 1 U.S. Amateur Public Links (1963)
9
Nick Watney Hey, look—a 21st-century
player! Watney, 33, represents the modern era on this nostalgia-heavy list. His fi ve offi cial PGA Tour victories include triumphs over deep, elite fi elds in a World Golf Championships event and a playoff tournament. Watney grew up in Dixon, outside Davis.
RESUME: • 5 PGA Tour wins
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Roger Maltbie He’s known mostly for his
good-natured banter with Miller on NBC broadcasts, but Maltbie (born in Modesto and raised in San Jose) could really play. He won the NCGA Ama- teur in 1972 and added fi ve wins on tour, including the Memorial in ’76.
RESUME: • 5 PGA Tour wins • 1 NCGA Amateur (1972)
1 Juli Inkster
Juli Inkster Inkster earned induction nearly 15 years ago, but
she still shakes her head when she hears those magical words—“Hall of Famer”—preceding her name. Golf wasn’t Inkster’s lifelong
dream, even if she grew up in a house alongside the 14th fairway at Pasa- tiempo in Santa Cruz. She was a bas- ketball player fi rst, and only became serious about golf at age 15. Even now, at 54 and fi rmly estab-
lished as one of the most decorated players in the history of the women’s game, Inkster refuses to defi ne
HONORABLE MENTION Dick Lotz (3 PGA Tour wins, 1 California State Amateur), Casey Boyns (record 20 total men’s NCGA championships, 4 NCGA Player of the Year titles, 2 California State Amateurs), Randy Haag (record 6 NCGA Player of the Year titles, 14 NCGA men’s championships), Gary Vanier (1 California State Amateur, 1 NCGA Match Play Cham- pionship, 1 Master-Division Championship, record 6 San Francisco City Champion- ships), Ron Cerrudo (2 PGA Tour wins, 2 NCGA Match Play Championships), Bobby Clampett (1 PGA Tour win, 2 California State Amateurs, 1 NCGA Junior Champion- ship, 1 NCGA Player of the Year).
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