NJSGA Hall of Fame
The NJSGA Hall of Fame has been established to recognize and enshrine men and women who, as New Jersey natives or residents at their time of achievement, have impacted New Jersey golf and/or have made extraordinary contributions to the game through competitive and non-competitive accomplishments.
The mission is to honor New Jersey’s finest amateur and professional golf competitors, as well as those who have made outstanding contributions in other areas of golf such as architects, journalists, superintendents, mentors, volunteers and others.
The NJSGA Hall of Fame conducted its inaugural induction ceremony on May 1, 2018. Henceforth the New Jersey golf community will meet each spring to honor the most prominent names in the long history of the New Jersey State Golf Association. Famed players, golf administrators, superintendents, architects and others who have made a unique and lasting impact on the game of golf in our state will be recognized.
Five Hall of Fame classes have been inducted thus far. Their pictures currently hang in the lobby of the NJSGA office and their accomplishments will be celebrated here.
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2024 Honorees
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Helen Hockenjos (1906-1995)
Class of 2024Read the Full Bio -
Dot Paluck
Class of 2024Read the Full Bio -
Bob Ross
Class of 2024Read the Full Bio -
Chester "Red" Wender (1927-2020)
Class of 2024Read the Full Bio
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Previous Honorees
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"Long" Jim Barnes (1886-1966)
Class of 2021Read the Full Bio -
Leighton Calkins (1868-1955)
Class of 2020Read the Full Bio -
Michael Cestone (1904-1988)
Class of 2020Read the Full Bio -
George A. Crump (1871-1918)
Class of 2022Read the Full Bio -
Carolyn Cudone (1918-2009)
Inaugural Class of 2018Read the Full Bio -
William Y. Dear (1912-1986)
Inaugural Class of 2018Read the Full Bio -
Dr. Ralph Engel (1915-1995)
Inaugural Class of 2018Read the Full Bio -
Johnny Farrell (1901-1988)
Inaugural Class of 2018Read the Full Bio -
Leo Fraser (1910-1986)
Class of 2019Read the Full Bio -
Vic Ghezzi (1910-1976)
Inaugural Class of 2018Read the Full Bio -
David Glenz
Class of 2022Read the Full Bio -
Charlotte Glutting (1910-1996)
Inaugural Class of 2018Read the Full Bio -
Sherry Herman
Class of 2020Read the Full Bio -
Arthur "Red" Hoffman (1919-2005)
Inaugural Class of 2018Read the Full Bio -
Robert Housen
Inaugural Class of 2018Read the Full Bio -
Robert J. "Bobby" Jacobson (1917-2006)
Class of 2019Read the Full Bio -
Robert Trent Jones, Sr. (1906-2000)
Class of 2023Read the Full Bio -
Oswald Kirkby (1886-1934)
Class of 2023Read the Full Bio -
Milton "Babe" Lichardus (1926-2007)
Class of 2019Read the Full Bio -
Nestor J. MacDonald (1895-1991)
Inaugural Class of 2018Read the Full Bio -
Max Marston (1892-1946)
Class of 2021Read the Full Bio -
Marge Mason (1918-1974)
Class of 2021Read the Full Bio -
Joseph McBride (1919-2005)
Class of 2019Read the Full Bio -
John J. McDermott (1891-1971)
Class of 2020Read the Full Bio -
Byron Nelson (1912-2006)
Inaugural Class of 2018Read the Full Bio -
Karen Noble
Class of 2022Read the Full Bio -
Maureen Orcutt (1907-2007)
Inaugural Class of 2018Read the Full Bio -
Dorothy Germain Porter (1924-2012)
Class of 2019Read the Full Bio -
Ann Probert
Class of 2023Read the Full Bio -
Chet Sanok (1919-1996)
Inaugural Class of 2018Read the Full Bio -
John Shippen (1879-1968)
Inaugural Class of 2018Read the Full Bio -
Allan Small
Class of 2020Read the Full Bio -
Jeff Thomas (1958-2003)
Class of 2019Read the Full Bio -
Albert Warren Tillinghast (1876-1942)
Inaugural Class of 2018Read the Full Bio -
Jerome Travers (1887-1951)
Inaugural Class of 2018Read the Full Bio -
Dennis Walters
Class of 2019Read the Full Bio -
Charles Whitehead (1913-1984)
Inaugural Class of 2018Read the Full Bio -
Ed Whitman
Class of 2022Read the Full Bio -
Craig Wood (1901-1968)
Class of 2019Read the Full Bio -
Billy Ziobro
Class of 2019Read the Full Bio
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