The Southern Golf Association Hall of Fame was established in 1972 by the Board of Directors of the Southern Golf Association. The following qualifications were established as criteria for nomination of an inductee, but an inductee does not have to meet every single criteria. The candidate must have: 1) Outstanding competitive career; 2) Outstanding administrative contributions; 3) Outstanding promotional contributions; 4) The candidate must have met the above criteria while a member of a Southern Golf Association Member Club.

The first Hall of Fame inductee was appropriately Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. The award was made posthumously in July, 1972 at the 1972 Southern Amateur Championship held at the Green Island Country Club in Columbus, Georgia.

The Honor Roll of the SGA Hall of Fame is as follows:

       
 1972  Robert T. Jones, Jr.  1973  Richard S.Tufts
 1974  Nelson Whitney  1975  Billy Joe Patton
 1976  Curtis S. Person, Sr.  1977  No Election
 1978  Sam Perry  1979  Dale Morey
 1980  No Election  1981  Lewis W. Oehmig
 1982  No Election  1983  No Election
 1984  Marvin Giles, III  1985  No Election
 1986  Charles R. Yates  1987  No Election
 1988  Thomas W. Barnes  1989  No Election
 1990  Watts Gunn  1991  Arnold Blum
 1992  No Election  1993  Danny Yates
 1994  No Election  1995  No Election
 1996  A. Downing Gray  1997  No Election
 1998  Joe H. King  1999  Tim Jackson

 2000

  James W. (Billy) Key  2001  No Election
 2002  Fred S. Ridley  2003  William C. Campbell
 2004  No Election  2005  John C. Owens
 2006  Hubert Green  2007  No Election

(For a brief history of each Hall of Fame member, simply click on his name above.)


The Southern Golf Association Hall of Fame is unique in that it does not necessarily induct a member each year, nor does it select multiple inductees. In this, its 35th year, there have been 22 inductees with 13 years of no induction. This, in effect, makes it even more of an honor to be a member of the Southern Golf Association Hall of Fame.