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Strange into Hall of Fame

13/11/2007

Double major winner and former American Ryder Cup captain Curtis Strange has become one of the latest inductees to the World Golf Hall of Fame.

The 52-year-old joined fellow two-time major champion Hubert Green, five-time LPGA major winner Si Re Pak and 1960 Open champion Kel Nagle in the class of 2007.

Irish amateur Joe Carr and architect and administrator Charles Blair Macdonald were also inducted posthumously.

Strange is the best-known name of the six, having become the first player to earn more than $1 million in a single PGA Tour season in 1988 - the same year as the first of his back-to-back US Open titles.

In all, Strange won 25 professional tournaments, 17 of which were on the PGA Tour and he currently plays on the Champions Tour for retired professionals.

The American played on five Ryder Cup teams in 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989 and 1995 and captained the team in 2002, although he finished on the winning side only once - and that in his debut year.

Fellow American Green, 60, won the PGA Championship - his second major - in 1985 but he enjoyed his best years in the late 1970s.

In 1977 he was victorious at the US Open and finished a career-best third at the Open Championship, and the following year he came second in the Masters.

Korean LPGA Tour veteran Si Re Pak has 24 titles, including five majors.

And Nagle won 61 tournaments on the Australasian Tour but is most famous for holding off the challenge of Arnold Palmer to win the Open Championship 47 years ago.