4 to Be Inducted Into PGA World Golf Hall of Fame

PINEHURST, N.C. — Four professional golfers will be inducted into the PGA World Golf Hall of Fame here in November.

The four are Raymond Floyd, Nancy Lopez, Roberto DeVicenzo and the late Jim Barnes.

Members of the Hall of Fame are selected annually by the Golf Writers Assn. of America.

All four golfers will be inducted during ceremonies in conjunction with the PGA World Golf Hall of Fame Invitational Pro-Am Nov. 4-5 at Pinehurst Country Club.

Floyd, 44, a North Carolina native who now lives in Miami, has captured 21 tour events, including the 1969 and 1982 PGA championships, 1976 Masters and the 1986 U.S. Open. Lopez, 32, who was born in Torrance, Calif., and now lives in Naples, Fla., began her golfing career at the age of 8 and joined the LPGA tour in 1977. She has 40 LPGA victories, including the 1989 LPGA championship. She has also been named LPGA player of the year four times. She became the 11th member of the LPGA Hall of Fame in July, 1987.

DeVicenzo, 66, who was born in Buenos Aires, where he still resides, joined the PGA Tour in 1947. He has four PGA Tour victories and three Senior PGA Tour victories, including the 1980 U.S. Senior Open. He won the 1967 British Open and has 230 other titles.

The late Jim Barnes, winner of the first two PGA championships in 1916 and 1919 and the 1925 British Open, was a native of Great Britain. He began his professional golf career in 1906. Barnes died May 26, 1966, at 80.