The lanky Augusta, GA native was both a fine amateur player and an outstanding administrator.

P.J. Boatwright’s playing record included victories in the 1961 Carolinas Amateur, the 1967 Carolinas Open and the Carolinas Four-Ball Championship in 1951 and ‘53.  One of his biggest thrills as a player came in 1951 when he defeated fellow Hall of Famer E. Harvie Ward in the championship match of the Biltmore Invitational.  He also played in four U.S. Amateur Championships and survived the 36-hole cut in the 1950 U.S. Open at Merion.

But Boatwright, who grew up in the South Carolina towns of North Augusta, Rock Hill and Spartanburg, is best remembered for his achievements as an administrator.  He served as executive director of the Carolinas Golf Association from 1955-’59, conducting tournaments, working on handicaps and rating courses.  He once joked that he had “played more courses than anyone in the history of the Carolinas.”

His work with the CGA prepared him for his next job, which came in 1959 when he joined the United States Golf Association as assistant executive director.  He later became the USGA’s executive director for Rules and Competitions.

During his stint with the USGA, Boatwright became known as one of the most knowledgeable Rules of Golf experts in the world.  He participated in a number of quadrennial Rules conferences between the USGA and the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews and was responsible for a multitude of Rules Decisions.

He was inducted into the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame in 1976 and the South Carolina Golf Hall of Fame in 1987.

PJ Boatwright was inducted into the Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame in 1985.

Patricia J. Moore was born in Lodi Calif. and grew up in Lubbock, Tex. She attended college at Texas Tech University but didn’t play golf in high school or college and was only a weekend golfer until the mid 1980s. Her first statewide event was in Florida in 1985 and she went on to play in state championships in Louisiana and Virginia.

She has won 23 club championships, including 19 at Carmel Country Club, and six Moore County Amateur Championships. Her Carolinas Golf Association titles include four 4-Ball, two N.C. Senior, four Carolinas Senior, two Match Play championships, the 2007 Amateur, seven Senior Amateur Championships, two N.C. Women’s Golf Association championships, eight senior championships, the 2000 Women’s Southern Golf Association Championship and three Women’s Eastern Golf Association Seniors. She has competed in seven USGA Amateurs and 13 USGA Mid-Amateurs.

A four-time Carolinas Senior Player of the Year she was the first to win both the regular and senior division of the N.C. Amateur and was the first female golfer to win CGA Player of the Year honors in both regular and senior divisions in 2004 and 2007

Paul Simson of Raleigh, N.C., is the most successful player in the history of the Carolinas Golf Association. The CGA began honoring the Player of the Year in 1997 and Simson has won four times, in 1998, 2005, 2008 and 2009. His winning ways date back to 1990 with his first win at the Carolinas Mid-Am. This 58-year-old insurance executive has also won the Senior Men’s Player of the Year Award the past four years and is well on his way to winning again in 2010.

One of Simson’s most outstanding years was accomplished on both sides of the Atlantic in 2008. He won four times and competed in the U.S. Senior Open, the U.S. Amateur held at Pinehurst, and in the U.S. Senior Amateur.

Simson holds the all-time record that currently stands at 22 Carolinas Golf Association championships. Simson won the British Senior Amateur for the second time in 2008 and made the cut in the British Senior Open in 2009. He won back-to-back North and South Amateur Championships in 1995-96

Although Peggy Kirk Bell was born in Finlay, Ohio, she moved to North Carolina in 1953 where she and her husband, Warren, began developing Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club.

Mrs. Bell has had a long and illustrious career in golf as both an amateur and professional, as a teacher and a golf resort owner-operator. After being voted the best athlete in her high school, she went on to the Sargent Physical Education School in Boston, and finally graduating from Rollins College in Florida with a degree in Physical Education.

As an amateur, she won the North and South at Pinehurst, the Womens Eastern Amateur and the Titleholders in Augusta, Georgia, where she was the first to break 300 in that tournament. In 1947 she teamed with the late Babe Didrickson Zaharias to win the International Four-Ball. Then in 1948 she was invited to play as a member of the US Curtis Cup Team against the United Kingdom. Twice Mrs. Bell was beaten in the fourth round of the USGA Womens Amateur.

Mrs. Bell turned professional in 1950 and qualified ten times to play in the USGA Womens Open; her best finishes were 9th place in 1955 at Wichita, and tied for 10th in 1956 and 1957 at Duluth, Minnesota and Mamaroneck, New York, respectively. She was a Charter Member of the Ladies PGA. After a brief try on tour, she turned to teaching. In 1966 she published a book of instruction, A Womans Way to Better Golf.

In 1953, the year she claimed North Carolina as home, she married Warren (Bullet) Bell, a former professional basketball player, and the couple, with Julius Boros and the Cosgrove family, bought a rundown golf course in Southern Pines. Two years later, the Bells bought out their partners and began building the Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club, which she still operates today. Pine Needles is ranked among the top of the nations golf resorts and teaching centers. Mrs. Bell was inducted into the Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame in 1983 and is also a member of the NC Sports Hall of Fame.

Mrs. Bell's Honors:

1947 -Winner, Womens International Four-Ball

1948 - Member, US Curtis Cup Team

1949 - Winner, North and South Womens Amateur

1949 - Winner, The Titleholders, Augusta, Ga.

1950 - Winner, Womens Eastern Amateur

1961 - Named LPGA Teacher of the Year

1981 - Received National Golf Foundations Herb Graffis Award for Service to Golf Bobby Jones

1981 - Named LPGA Pro of the Year

Randy Glover grew up in Cheraw, South Carolina where his father was a golf professional. He attended the University of Tennessee prior to joining the PGA Tour in 1962. He ranked among the circuit’s top 60 money winners from 1965 to 1968 and was a two-time tour winner: the Utah Open and the Azalea Open, both in 1967.

Although his career was interrupted by a stint in the U.S. Army in 1964, he finished 19th on the money list that year, which was named Most Improved Player for the year by Golf Digest. Noted for his velvet touch on the greens, Glover once shared the PGA Tour record for fewest putts in one round—19 in the fourth round of the 1965 St. Paul (MN) Open.

After injuries forced him off the tour, Glover became the dominant player among South Carolina professionals. He won the Carolinas Open in 1967 and 1977, won the South Carolina PGA Chapter Championship five times and the Carolinas PGA Pro-Pro Championship four times.

The South Carolina Open almost came to be known as the “Randy Glover Benefit” when he won the title for five straight years from 1969 through ‘73. After his youngest brother Russell broke his streak in 1974, Randy came back to win the title three more times (1977, ‘80 and ‘81).

Glover, who served as head professional at clubs in Charleston, Summerville, Johnsonville and Clinton, all in South Carolina, was named CPGA Player of the Year in 1978 and ‘81. He was inducted into the South Carolina Golf Hall of Fame in 1978, the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame in 1982 and the Carolinas PGA Hall of Fame in 1993.

Born at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the son of an army officer, Ray Floyd Floyd almost became a professional baseball player, but a victory in the National Jaycee Tournament in 1960 fortunately turned him to golf. He joined the PGA Tour in 1963, played in 10 events without even making the cut, but won the 11th, the St. Petersburg Open at age 20 years and five months. He was voted Rookie of the Year and went on to become one of the legends of the game.

That first win made him on the youngest winner in tour history and with a final tour win in 1992, almost 30 years later, at age 49 he also became one the oldest victors. Floyd's career included 22 PGA Tour wins, among them 1969 and 1982 PGA Championships, the 1976 Masters and the 1986 U. S. Open Championship. He won 14 times with the Senior and Champions Tours in a career tallying 62 wins worldwide. He was a member of eight Ryder Cup teams and captain of the 1989 Ryder Cup team.

A member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1989. He was inducted into the Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame in 1982 and would be joined later by tha Army officer father, L.B. Floyd in 1997.

A Connecticut native who played out of Pinehurst for many years, Chapman won national titles on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

In the 1940 U.S. Amateur Championship at Winged Foot, his home club, Chapman won the qualifying medal with a four-under-par 140 total, then played 157 holes in eight-under-par on his way to the title.  In the final match, he romped to an 11-and 9 victory over “Duff” McCullough, who had been second-low qualifier.

Eleven years later, after helping the U.S. team to victory in the Walker Cup Match at Royal Birkdale, Chapman stayed around long enough to win the British Amateur Championship, in which be defeated fellow American Charlie Coe in the final.

Chapman also played two other victorious Walker Cup teams—in 1947 at St. Andrews, Scotland and in 1953 at Marion, Mass.
He participated in the Masters Tournament 19 times, surviving the 36-hole cut on 12 occasions.  He finished among the top 24, thus earning a return invitation for the following year, four times with his best finish coming in 1954 when wound up in 11th place.

Chapman won the Carolinas Amateur Championship in 1953 and ‘57 and took the Carolinas Four-Ball Championship in 1956 and ‘59.  He also won national titles in France (twice), Canada and Italy. Richard Chapman was inducted into the Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame in 1986

Tufts was president of the USGA in 1956 and 1957 but his influence was strong before then and still influences the game today. In 1951 he played a central role in the rules summit in which the USGA and the Royal and Ancient agreed to uniformity. In concert with the USGA, executive director, Joe Dey, Tufts crafted the standard set-up for championships - tight fairways, graduating rough and near fast, firm greens. Tufts also formulated the modern USGA handicapping system of drawing on the best 10 of the past 20 rounds. He also instigated the conversion of the USGA Green Section from a modest research supporter to a national network of visiting agronomists.

Grandson of James W. Tufts, founder of Pinehurst, Richard S. Tufts left his own indelible mark on the game. Soft spoken and thoughtful, he was known as "Mister Richard" to residents of Pinehurst and golfers at the famous resort where he was president during the flourishing post-war years.

He founded the Tufts Archives in Pinehurst making thousands of historic photographs, negatives, maps, artifacts, and memorabilia available to the public and scholars. The Carolinas Golf Association player of the year award is named in Tufts' honor.

Richard Tufts was inducted into the Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame in 1981.

Robert Dedman Jr. has extended and expanded his father’s legacy through visionary leadership and strategic reinvestment in Pinehurst Resort since assuming ownership in 2004. Under his guidance, Pinehurst has hosted an extraordinary slate of championships, including the 2005 U.S. Open, the unprecedented back-to-back 2014 U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open, and the 2019 U.S. Amateur. Pinehurst No. 2 was designated the USGA’s first U.S. Open Anchor Site under his leadership, securing future championships in 2029, 2035, 2041, and 2047.

Dedman Jr.’s strategic acquisitions, such as Pinehurst No. 9, and his ongoing reinvestment in resort infrastructure, have ensured Pinehurst retains its global prominence. His approach to ownership has preserved Pinehurst’s heritage while preparing it for generations to come.

Robert Dedman Sr. is honored posthumously for his extraordinary stewardship of Pinehurst Resort, which he acquired in 1984 when the club fell into serious decline. Determined to restore Pinehurst to its legendary status, Dedman reinvested aggressively into the property, oversaw the full restoration of its courses and facilities, and broadened its reach by adding amenities such as the Pinehurst Convention Center.

His leadership ushered in a modern renaissance for Pinehurst. He championed the transformation of No. 2 alongside architect Rees Jones, elevated tournament golf at the resort, and helped reestablish Pinehurst as a global golf destination. Dedman’s dedication to the USGA brought multiple championships back to Pinehurst, including the historic 1999 U.S. Open, which became one of the most celebrated championships in American golf.

An NAIA All-American at High Point College, Roger Watson was elected to the NAIA Hall of Fame in 1981.  After graduation in 1966, his first job as a Professional was for Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame member Buck Adams, at the Country Club of North Carolina in Pinehurst.  Later he became the Head Professional and Golf Director at MacGregor Downs Country Club in Cary for ten years.  As a young Club Professional, he won the 1969 North Carolina Open.

Watson’s greatest years as a player came in the mid-1970s.  The first of those years was 1974, when he won the PGA Club Professionals Championship in Pinehurst, making a 90-foot putt on the 72nd hole to tie Sam Snead, then defeating Snead in a playoff.  He successfully defended the title in 1975.  He won the Carolinas PGA Championship in both 1975 and 1976, and was a member of the PGA Cup Team in both of those years.

Since 1985, Watson’s efforts have been focused on developing and managing new golf courses in the Carolinas and Virginia, keeping the game alive for future generations.

Roger Watson was inducted into the Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame in 1981.

Green, regarded as the dean of golf journalism in the Carolinas , covered 75 major golf championships, including 52 Masters. He is the author of four books: From Tobacco Road to Amen Corner: On Sports and Life (1990); Shouting at Amen Corner (1999); Slow Dancing with Bobby Jones (2004); and a History of Charlotte Country Club (2005).

In 2006, Green received the PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism. He has also won four Golf Writers Association of America awards and is a five-time North Carolina Sportswriter of the Year. Outside golf, he has covered four Olympic Games, 25 Super Bowls, the World Series, U.S. Tennis Opens, one world heavyweight boxing championship between Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes; and 26 NCAA Final Fours. He retired from daily newspaper reporting in 1999.

Ron Green was inducted into the Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame in 2006.