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Joe Dey Award
The Joe Dey Award is given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of meritorious service to the game of golf as a volunteer. It is named in honor of Joseph Dey, Jr., who was the USGA's executive director for 35 years and also served as the first PGA Tour commissioner. Winners *2022 Ede Rice *2020 Lon Haskew *2019 Tom Dudley *2018 Gib Palmer *2017 Jayne Watsonhttp://www.usga.org/articles/2016/12/course-rating-veteran-jayne-watson-to-receive-2017-joe-dey-award.html *2016 Keith Hansen *2015 Dr. David Cookson *2014 Michael Cumberpatch *2013 Taizo Kawata *2012 Stan Grossman *2011 Inez Muhleman *2010 Joe Luigs *2009 Dick Rundle *2008 Gene McClure *2007 Harry McCracken *2006 Bob Hooper *2005 Pearl Carey *2004 Adele Lebow *2003 John Hanna *2002 Clyde Luther *2001 Bill Dickey *2000 Jack Emich *1999 Frank Anglim *1998 Joe King *1997 John Staver *1996 Charles Eckstein See also *Bob Jones Award The Bob Jones Award is the highest honor given by the United States Golf Associatio ...
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United States Golf Association
The United States Golf Association (USGA) is the United States national association of golf courses, clubs and facilities and 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. History 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 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 g ...
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Joseph Dey
Joseph Charles Dey Jr. (November 17, 1907 – March 3, 1991) was an American golf administrator and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. Early years Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Dey grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, and attended the University of Pennsylvania in A skilled amateur golfer, Dey dropped out of college to become a sportswriter for New Orleans and Philadelphia newspapers and magazines. He eventually specialized in golf, and covered the final leg of Bobby Jones' Grand Slam at Merion Golf Club in suburban Philadelphia in 1930. Golf administrator Soon afterwards, Dey was approached by the United States Golf Association and offered a job helping to run its New York office. He served as executive director of the USGA from 1934 to 1968, during a period of extraordinary growth in the sport. Dey played a key role in meetings between the USGA and The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in the early 1950s, to standardize the rules of golf around the world. Following h ...
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PGA Tour
The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also known as the PGA Tour, as well as PGA Tour Champions (age 50 and older) and the Korn Ferry Tour (for professional players who have not yet qualified to play on the PGA Tour), as well as PGA Tour Canada, PGA Tour Latinoamérica, and PGA Tour China. The PGA Tour is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb southeast of Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville. Originally established by the Professional Golfers' Association of America, it was spun off in December 1968 into a separate organization for tour players, as opposed to professional golfer, club professionals, the focal members of today's PGA of America. Originally the "Tournament Players Division", it adopted the name "PGA Tour" in 1975 and runs most of ...
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Bob Jones Award
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 *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. Boatw ...
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