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.