Renowed golf course architect Pete Dye was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame this week in St. Augustine, Florida.

Dye, who has designed more than 120 courses, was among six inductees selected through the Lifetime Achievement category. They included: Craig Wood, the first to win the Masters and U.S. Open in the same year, was the only player elected through the PGA Tour ballot. Three-time major champion Denny Shute and Bob Charles, the first left-hander to win a major, got in through the Veterans category. Carole Semple Thompson, an amateur who won seven USGA championships, and Herbert Warren Wind, the writer who famously described a three-hole stretch at Augusta National as “Amen Corner.”

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