PGA

• Semple Thompson gets Hall of Fame nod

  
  

  St. Augustine, FL (Sports Network) - Carol Semple Thompson, Denny Shute, Craig Wood and golf writer Herbert Warren Wind will join architect Pete Dye in the World Golf Hall of Fame Class of 2008, it was announced on Tuesday.

  Dye was announced as member of the class earlier this year, but the other four were announced Tuesday. There is still one more member of this class that will be named later this summer.

  The 2008 World Golf Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Monday, Nov. 10 at World Golf Village in St. Augustine, Fla.

  Semple Thompson, a seven-time USGA championship winner, was voted in thanks to the Lifetime Achievement Category. She is one of 11 players in history to have won the United States Women's Amateur Championship and the British Ladies Open Amateur Championship.

  She has six additional USGA titles and played on a record 12 USA Curtis Cup teams and captained winning American sides in 2006 and 2008.

  Shute, tabbed in the Veterans Category, won 15 times on the PGA Tour, including three majors. He captured the 1933 British Open and PGA Championship titles in 1936 and 1937. Shute, a three-time Ryder Cupper who held the distinction of being the last back-to-back PGA Champion before Tiger Woods did it in 1999 and 2000, died in 1974.

  Wood, the only player elected on the PGA Tour ballot with the requisite 65 percent of the vote, became the first player in history to win the Masters and U.S. Open in the same year in 1941. He passed away in 1968.

  Wind wrote for The New Yorker and Sports Illustrated and is credited with terming the phrase "Amen Corner" at Augusta National. He won the USGA's Bob Jones Award in 1995 and remains the only writer ever bestowed with the honor. Wind died in May of 2005.

  06/24 18:11:29 ET