Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

Relive It All Again

Golf

Jim Albus

Jim Albus, a Jaques Award winner as Staten Island’s best high school basketball player and a college outfielder, was a four-time Met PGA Player of the Year and 1990 PGA of America Club Professional of the Year before winning the 1991 Senior Players Championship, and joining the Senior Tour. He went on to win six Senior titles and more than $6 million on tour, setting records for most birdies and most rounds in the 60s, (Read more...)

Bill Britton

Bill Britton played 15 years on the PGA Tour, winning the 1989 Centel Classic and posting 23 top 10 finishes, including the Masters and PGA Championship. He won the first of two Met Amateur titles at 17, making him the youngest champion and the first from a public course, to go with a Met Open, a New York City Publinx title, and a national junior college title.(Read more...)

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Carolyn Cassidy Cudone

Carolyn Cassidy Cudone played on a winning Curtis Cup team in 1956, featuring the best American amateur golfers against those from Great Britain, and captained another winning team in 1970. Cudone won a record six consecutive U.S. Women’s Senior Amateurs; five Met championships; six New Jersey match-play championships, and 11 stroke play titles; and five South Carolina state championships.(Read more...)

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Frank Hannigan

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.(Read more...)

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Pete Meurer

Pete Meurer, a self-taught public-course player and retired firefighter, won five Staten Island Amateurs and a record 13 Staten Island Classics – including 10 in a row – in addition to the Met Publinx, the New York City Amateur and the Rockland County Amateur. Meurer, the Met Golf Association’s 2004 Player of the Year, qualified for three U.S. Amateurs and two U.S. Publinx, and played on seven MGA international teams.(Read more...)