NJSGA Announces Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony to be postponed until 2021

July 13, 2020 - Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the New Jersey State Golf Association has announced that the induction ceremony to honor the Hall of Fame Class of 2020 will be postponed until 2021. A date will be announced, pending further health-related developments, later in 2020.

The Class of 2020 includes Leighton Calkins, credited with developing an early iteration of golf’s handicap system. In addition, four of New Jersey’s greatest players will be honored, including Michael Cestone, winner of the 1960 U.S. Senior Amateur Championship; Sherry Herman, winner of the 2009 U.S. Women’s Senior Amateur Championship;  John McDermott, the first American-born (and two-time U.S. Open champion), and Allan Small, the only player to win the NJSGA Amateur, Mid-Amateur and Senior Amateur championships.

The mission of the NJSGA Hall of Fame 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 Hall of Fame recognizes 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.