Ellen Griffin

Golf
Inducted: 2023

  • Helped to found the Women’s Professional Golf Association, the forerunner of the LPGA.
  • She taught the game for 28 years at her alma mater (UNCG)
  • The 1962 LPGA Teacher of the Year and was among the first LPGA Master Professionals.
  • She wrote golf instruction manuals and was the first recipient of the National Golf Association’s Joe Graffis Award for service to the game.