Nominations Now Open for 2016 Texas Golf Hall of Fame, Smith is Chairman
San Antonio, TX -
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2016 Class of the Texas Golf Hall of Fame. All Texans and golf lovers are urged to nominate qualified individuals through and pursuant to the guidelines established on the Hall’s website at www.texasgolfhof.org.
The nomination period is open from June 2 to July 15, 2016. The nominees will then be reviewed for eligibility and voted on by the living hall members, the TGHOF Board of Directors and Texas golf media. The final selection will be announced in early August. Nominations are accepted only though the website.
Longtime Texas golf professional Jerry Smith was also recently elected as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Individuals or Texas courses can be nominated in one of five categories – Amateur, Tour Professional, Golf Professional/Teacher, and Lifetime Achievement, plus the Texas Registry of Historic Golf Courses.
On October 10th, the Texas Golf Hall of Fame will induct its seventh class of inductees since reconstituting the Hall in 2009. The Induction Dinner will take place at historic San Antonio Country Club. The 2016 class of inductees will be commemorated on a new granite marker along the Texas Golf Walk of Fame at Brackenridge Park Golf Course.
Smith, former Head Golf Professional at Brook Hollow Golf Club, was elected Board Chair for a two-year term. Smith, from Tyler, succeeds long-time TGHOF Chair, Buddy Cook, of San Antonio. “It is truly an honor to serve as the Board Chairman of the best state golf hall of fame in the country and I want to publicly thank Buddy Cook for his leadership over the last five years.”
Loren Singletary of Houston, former member of the USGA’s Executive Committee, was elected Vice Chairman, and Houston’s Mike Ray, Executive Director of the Southern Texas PGA, was elected Secretary/Treasurer.
Elected as Directors are Billy Cavender and Bobby Dewar of San Antonio and Paul Earnest of Dallas.
The Texas Golf Hall of Fame, the largest state golf hall of fame in the country, is located at the Brackenridge Park Golf Course clubhouse and a historic building adjacent to the clubhouse, the Borglum Studio. The board is comprised of fifteen state-wide directors, of which eight are permanent and seven are at-large. The TGHOF is a 501(c) (3) organization. More information is available at www.texasgolfhof.org.
Contact:
Jerry D. Smith, Board Chair – 972.998.6770
Mary Carriker, Managing Director – 210.736.8701
