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Sports Briefs: Dye leads class of six inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame
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Published: November 11, 2008
Pete Dye, who designed more than 120 courses, was among six people inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame last night in St. Augustine, Fla.
The 2008 class featured an amateur, an architect and an author, along with three major champions.
Craig Wood was the only player elected through the PGA Tour ballot. Wood, the first player to win the Masters and U.S. Open in the same year and the first to lose all four majors in extra holes, received the minimum 65 percent of the vote.
Three-time major champion Denny Shute and Bob Charles, the first left-hander to win a major, got in through the Veteran's category.
Carole Semple Thompson, an amateur who won seven USGA championships and took part in 14 Curtis Cup matches, and Herbert Warren Wind, the writer who famously described a three-hole stretch at Augusta National as "Amen Corner," were selected through the Lifetime Achievement category.
They brought membership in the Hall of Fame to 126.
Dye, selected through the Lifetime Achievement category, dismissed his career as digging up other people's property, but he shaped it into courses that held major championships, Ryder Cups and PGA Tour tournaments. He became the fourth Hall of Famer whose primary occupation was a golf-course architect.
He started with a nine-hole course near Indianapolis and turned that into a design business that produced more than 120 courses that have been hosts for major championships, Ryder Cups and PGA Tour stops -- Kiawah Island, Whistling Straits and Oak Tree among them.
"He has been a designer who has really tested us," said Greg Norman, who introduced Dye. "Pete has the ability to make you remember every shot you played."
Hockey
■ Igor Larionov played almost half of his career before he even knew the Hockey Hall of Fame even existed.
Larionov was one of the best players in the world for the dominant teams of the former Soviet Union, but being isolated behind the Iron Curtain he only dreamed of achieving success in a red USSR jersey.
Yesterday he was inducted into the Hall as part of the 2008 Hall of Fame class that also included longtime Oilers winger Glenn Anderson, linesman Ray Scapinello and late junior-hockey builder Ed Chynoweth.
"I never even knew about the Hall of Fame at that time, in the '80s," Larionov said. "I was drafted by the Canucks in '85 and I just found out about it in '87. I knew (about) the National Hockey League because I played the Canada Cups and the Super Series against NHL teams....
"Talking about the Hall of Fame, I had no imagination 28 years ago to even think today I would be talking to you guys."
The time has passed when the Hall of Fame was reserved almost exclusively for North Americans who made their mark in the NHL.
Larionov is the sixth Russian-born inductee -- five players plus coach Anatoli Tarasov in the builders' category -- and couldn't help but reflect on how quickly the hockey world has evolved.
Soccer
■ North Carolina was awarded a No. 1 seed for the NCAA women's-soccer tournament last night and the Tar Heels will take on Western Carolina in a first-round match on Friday in Chapel Hill.
Wake Forest received a No. 3 seed and will meet Morehead State on Friday at Spry Stadium.
Duke also was awarded a No. 3 seed and the Blue Devils will take on Radford on Friday in Durham.
Other ACC teams receiving bids were Boston College, Florida State, Virginia Tech and Miami.
The only other North Carolina team to receive a bid was UNC Charlotte, which will take on Tennessee on Friday in Chapel Hill.
■ Regular-season champion Wake Forest has the No. 1 seed for this week's ACC men's soccer tournament, which will open at 1 p.m. today when No. 9 Virginia Tech plays No. 8 N.C. State at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary.
In quarterfinals Wednesday, No. 2 Maryland will play No. 7 North Carolina at noon, No. 3 Boston College will play No. 6 Clemson at 2:30, Wake Forest will play the N.C. State-Virginia Tech winner at 5:30, and No. 4 Virginia will play No. 5 Duke at 8 p.m.
Semifinals will be at 5:30 and 8 p.m. Friday, and the championship match will be at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Miscellaneous
■ Rafael Nadal, the world's No. 1-ranked men's tennis player, will miss Spain's Davis Cup final against Argentina because of a knee injury. Nadal said yesterday that he is still struggling with tendinitis in his right knee after a week of treatment.
Nadal's absence is a big blow to Spain's bid for a third Davis Cup title since 2000. Captain Emilio Sanchez Vicario has until today to name his team. Spain will play at Argentina on an indoor hard court Nov. 21-23.
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