WILLIE PARK JUN TO GET HALL OF FAME PLACE - BUT NOT TOM BENDELOW

ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida -- The late Willie Park junior. will be joining his father in the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Park, born in Musselburgh, won the Open twice in the 19th century and had a large influence on the game by making golf clubs and building golf courses. He was selected through the Veterans' Category. His father, Willie Park, the first Open champion, was inducted in 2005.
Park joins Ken Venturi and Fred Couples in the 2013 induction class. The ceremony will be May 6 at the World Golf Village.
Park won the Open in 1887 and 1889. Among the golf courses he designed were the Old Course at Sunningdale, Maidstone Golf Club on Long Island and Olympia Fields outside Chicago, which hosted the 2003 U.S. Open. He died in 1925 at age 61.

NOTE FROM EDITOR: The name of Aberdeen's Tom Bendelow, who emigrated to New York in 1892 and before the end of that Century had laid out scores of courses in the New York State and New Jersey area as the golf boom hit America, went on design more than 600 courses across North America before he died in Illinois in 1936, is still not quoted as a contender for a Hall of Fame place.