Alison Murdoch of Victoria is going into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame with the Class of 2013, which includes former PGA Tour pro Jim Nelford of Burnaby.
Murdoch has had a prominent amateur career on both the national and international stages and is four-time Canadian senior women鈥檚 champion.
The Victoria Club member most recently captured back-to-back Super Senior titles. Murdoch has also won the Pacific Northwest Golf Association Senior and Mid Amateur titles, as well as both sa国际传媒 and Alberta senior titles.
Internationally, Murdoch has won the British and Irish senior titles. Murdoch鈥檚 success at the senior level has earned her numerous accolades, including the ScoreGolf Female Senior Amateur of the Year on four occasions, the PNGA Senior Women鈥檚 Player of the Year on five occasions and the Sport sa国际传媒 Female Master Athlete of the Year in 2007. She was inducted into the sa国际传媒 Golf Hall of Fame in 2009.
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Nelford, meanwhile, teamed with fellow Canadian Dan Halldorson to win the 1980 World Cup. His best finishes on the PGA Tour included runner-up honours behind Fuzzy Zoeller at the 1983 Sea Pines Heritage Classic and a playoff loss to Hale Irwin at the 1984 Bing Crosby National Pro-Am. Despite suffering a horrific injury in a water-skiing accident in 1984, Nelford would go on to play four more years before turning to the broadcast booth, where he provided insightful and entertaining analysis during tournaments for the likes of The Golf Channel, CBS, ESPN, NBC, TSN and CTV.
John McLaughlin enters the Hall posthumously in the builder category.
