Michigan Golf Hall of Fame Inductees  

Shirley Spork  

Shirley started playing with one club when she was 10 years old and lived near Bonnie Brook Golf Course in Detroit . While attending Eastern Michigan University , she won the Women’s District Match Play Championship three times in four years plus the 1949 Michigan Amateur. After graduating from EMU, Spork taught at a Detroit public school but decided she’d rather play golf. She turned professional in 1950 and played the tour but along the way, realized she still was a teacher and in 1959, and along with Betty Hicks, Barbara Rotvig, and Marilynn smith, she founded the LPGA’s Teaching and Club Professional Division. She was elected to the Division’s first Hall of Fame Class in 2000. She was elected to the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame in 1989.