Frank Hannigan, a one-time teenage greenskeeper at Silver Lake Golf Course, became an outspoken champion of golf as a writer, administrator, rules expert, and visionary leader of the United States Golf Association.
Hannigan, who rewrote the USGA tournament model when he took the 1986 Open to Long Island’s Shinnecock Hills, found a second career as an on-air TV analyst, and co-wrote several books with Open champion Tom Watson.
Class of 2014