At least two victories in major tournaments. Since then, she said, she has heard almost daily questions about entering the Hall. Seve Ballesteros makes his acceptance speech at the World Golf Hall of Fame. It's like something's missing now. Today, I am just thinking of the great champions who have been inducted.
Some people say television helped.
Mangrum, a 36-time PGA Tour winner and the 1946 U.S. Open champion, also was inducted and honored posthumously by Hall of Famer Byron Nelson, who called him one of the game's ''most overlooked players'' in history. Mangrum died in 1973. He was 59. Nelson, DeVicenzo and Sam Snead were among the Hall of Famers present from the men's tour. Alcott, reared in Santa Monica, Calif., talked of putting into sprinkler heads with sawed-off clubs, and of watching Sam Snead play when she was young, wondering if there could be a place for a woman in that game.