Green, who overcame oral cancer four years ago, had 73 guests come to the induction, including his three sons. They played golf together Sunday for the first time.
Pak hardly spoke any English when she joined the tour, and learned the language mostly through her press conferences. She was nervous before a crowd of some 3,000 on a chilly night, but got through it with laughter, her larger-than-life smile and heartfelt emotion.
"My parents said when you make dreams, make them big," she said. "This night was always the one I dreamed about."
Pak had as much influence as anyone since Nancy Lopez, who presented her. She was relatively unknown as a rookie in 1998 until she won the LPGA Championship, then the U.S. Women's Open in a 20-hole playoff, and later shot 61 to set what then was the scoring record on the LPGA Tour. More than that, she inspired a nation of South Korean golfers to bring their games to America.
"Now everybody calls me the leader of Korean ladies golfers," she said earlier Monday. "Leader is always hard, really difficult. There's a lot of pressure. All I can do is just make them go the right way, to show them what's the best way, how to believe in themselves, how to make them as players. Things like that, it makes me really more stronger."
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