Long-time friends and PGA Tour winners Willie Wood and Andrew Magee, national championship coach and golf historian Mike McGraw, maverick course developer and operator Duffy Martin and 1962 U.S. Amateur champion Labron Harris Jr. comprise the outstanding Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame Class of 2025.
The Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame (www.oklahomagolfhof.org) merged with the Oklahoma Women’s Golf Hall of Fame in 2014 and inducts a class of those who have made exceptional contributions to the game every other year.
The Hall of Fame will now become a family affair, as McGraw joins twin sister Patty McGraw Coatney, who was inducted in 2006. Harris Jr. joins his father Labron Harris Sr., the founder of the Oklahoma State golf dynasty, who was inducted in 2016.
“The selection committee has delivered an outstanding group for 2025,” said Tom Jones, president of the Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame board and president/COO of Oak Tree National. “This class ranges from one of the most colorful professionals in the golf business in Duffy Martin, to a man that has not only led teams to championships but also been a mentor to hundreds of young golfers in Mike McGraw. Then you have tremendous professionals such as Willie Wood and Andrew Ma- gee and a U.S. Amateur champion in Labron Harris Jr. Congratulations to all the inductees.”
The 2025 Induction will be held Nov. 9 at Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club. Tables of 10 and sponsorship information is now available on the website or by calling 918-280-0787 or emailing ken@golfoklahoma.org.
2025 Inductees
Willie Wood
On his way to becoming one of the most accomplished junior amateur golfers in history, Willie Wood won his first tournament at age 9. Consider it an early start in his journey to join the 2025 class in the Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame.
Oklahoma State coach Mike Holder described Wood as follows: “He was Tiger Woods before Tiger Woods. He won just about every junior tournament you could win. There wasn’t any bigger name in junior golf. Until Tiger Woods came along, there probably wasn’t anyone who approached what Willie had done as a junior player.”
Wood turned pro in 1983 after winning eight tournaments at OSU, which trails only Lindy Miller (11) and Scott Verplank (9) on the program’s all-time career victory list.
Wood won the PGA Tour’s Deposit Guaranty Classic in 1996 and two Champions Tour events in a span of three starts in 2012. In his career as a touring pro, Wood made 500 cuts, placed second five times, placed third seven times, had 25 Top-5 finishes and 43 Top-10 finishes.
Wood also won two Oklahoma Opens (1990, 1995), the Colorado Open (1984) and Nevada Open (1979). In 1982, he was Big Eight Conference medalist and was selected the Fred Haskins Award winner as collegiate player of the year. Wood was a 1983 Walker Cup member and plays out of Oak Tree National, where he lives.
Andrew Magee
Born in Paris, France, Andrew Magee was a three-time All-American (1982-84) at the University of Oklahoma. He helped put OU back on the collegiate golf map under coaches Lynn Blevins and David Yates and OU went on to win a national championship in 1989 at Oak Tree Country Club.
In 606 career PGA Tour starts, he amassed $8,512,753 in official prize money, posted four victories, was runner-up seven times, placed third five times, had 25 Top-5 finishes and finished in the Top 10 on 64 occasions. Magee concluded his career on the Champions Tour, where he pocketed $512,969, made 39 of 42 cuts and had three Top-10 finishes. He later worked briefly as an analyst for the Golf Channel.
However, Magee became immortal with one swing of the club in 2001.
In the first round of that year’s Phoenix Open and playing on his home course of TPC Scottsdale, Magee pulled out his driver on the 332-yard, par-4, 17th hole. “I just killed it,” recalled Magee, prodded for the umpteenth time to share what transpired.
The tee shot bounded hard off the back lip of a fairway bunker and onto the green where Tom Byrum, Steve Pate and Gary Nicklaus were lining up their putts to finish the hole. Magee’s destined drive then ricocheted off Byrum’s putter and disappeared into the cup for a hole-in-one. To this day, it remains the only ace on a par-4 hole in an official PGA Tour event.
On the mortal side of life, Magee won the 1999 Southern Company Citizenship Award for his work with charities. He was involved with The Semper Fi Fund, which provides financial assistance to wounded Marines and their families while they recover. Pros who worked with Magee in various causes included Oklahoma State standout and fellow Oklahoma Golf Hall-of-Fame inductee Scott Verplank, plus OSU All-American Brian Watts. Along- side Gary McCord, Magee helped conduct the Santa Claus Classic, a charity pro-am that ran from 1994-2003 at TPC Scottsdale.
However, the indelible mark on Magee’s career remains his ace on the par-4 17th at the 2001 (now Waste Management) Phoenix Open.
“If you Google me, it’s the first thing that comes up,” Magee said on the 20th anniversary of his monumental achievement. “It (Google) doesn’t say I won four times on Tour and played 600 tournaments.”
Mike McGraw
As stated in his 2017 book, McGraw has always strived to leave the game, “Better Than I Found It,” whether coaching juniors, high school, collegians, hosting a popular podcast or serving as the unofficial historian of the game for the state of Oklahoma.
The son of long-time Ponca City Country Club head professional Gervis McGraw and the brother of 2006 inductee Patty McGraw Coatney, McGraw has carried on an intense lifelong love affair with golf. He began working with juniors in 1979 at Kickingbird Golf Course in Edmond while still a collegiate player at Central Oklahoma. That continued in the summers
even as he spent three years pursuing his dream of playing professional golf with his final event being the 1986 Oklahoma Open. He earned his teaching certificate, teaching history at Edmond’s Sequoyah Middle School while serving as assistant coach to Rick Leath at Edmond High School (now Edmond Memorial). His teams at Memori- al won state championships in 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993. In 1993 he became the head coach at the new Edmond North and promptly led the Huskies to state titles in 1994, 1995 and 1996 with a runnerup finish in 1997.
During that time McGraw touched the lives of thousands of young golfers who came through the E.C. Hafer Junior Program and through lessons and coaching. After winning 36 titles in 46 events in four years at North, he was brought to Stillwater by OSU golf coach Mike Holder to be his assistant, which he did for seven years before being named the OSU women’s coach for 2004-05.
McGraw replaced Holder when he became athletic director in 2005-06 and led the Cowboys to the 2006 NCAA Championship and a runner-up finish in 2010. His OSU teams won 30 tournaments including five Big 12 titles, but McGraw was released in 2013. He joined the staff at Alabama as an assistant for 2013-14 and helped lead the Tide to the NCAA Championship and was hired to be the head coach at Baylor in June of 2014.
In 10 years at Baylor, McGraw has led the Bears to 20 tournament titles and NCAA Tournament appearances in five of the last seven seasons. The Bears achieved their first-ever No. 1 national ranking, won their first NCAA Regional title and advanced to NCAA Championship match play for the first time in program history, earning the best NCAA Championship finish in program history. While coaching, McGraw finds time to host an historically significant podcast ripe with golf history and insights.
Labron Harris Jr.
Growing up the son of a legendary golf coach in a golf community such as the one that exists in Stillwater, one might think it would be easy for Labron Harris Jr. to follow in his father’s broad footsteps. Or it might be the hardest thing in the world.
Harris Jr. made it look easy. Not only in becoming an All-American golfer for his father at OSU in 1961 and 1962, but he capped off the 1962 season by winning the world’s most pres- tigious amateur event, the U.S. Amateur with a 1-up victory over A. Downing Gray in the championship match at Pinehurst on the famed No. 2 course. He was the second Oklahoman to win the event after Charles Coe in 1949 and 1958. Bob Dickson won in 1967. Other OSU golfers to win include Scott Verplank in 1984, Peter Uihlein in 2010 and Viktor Hovland in 2018.
That was a heady time for Harris, who was low amateur at the 1963 Masters, played for the U.S. in the Walker Cup and won the 1963 Oklahoma Open. He turned professional in 1964 and was the runner-up for Rookie of the Year on the PGA Tour.
Harris defeated Bert Yancey in a playoff at the 1971 Robinson Open Golf Classic for his lone PGA Tour victory. He was a runner-up five times in his PGA Tour career as well, making the cut in 224 of 321 tournaments. He won the Oklahoma Open and the PGA South Central Section Championship. He later went on an influential career with both the PGA Tour and the PGA of America in various capacities, including a key role in starting what is now called the PGA Tour Champions. In 1981 he left the PGA Tour to work with Kemper Sports Management, where he was executive director of the Kemper Open from 1982-86 as well as the PGA Senior in 1982 and the 1983 Ryder Cup.
Duffy Martin (1916-2015)
They broke the mold with Claude “Duffy” Martin, the entrepreneur and genial golf course developer, owner, professional and practical joker who built a public golf course empire in Guthrie based on the belief golf should be fun and fast.
Born in the tiny town of Faxon southwest of Lawton in 1916 to a deputy sheriff, Duffy was the sixth of 10 children. The family wound up in Oklahoma City, where Duffy attended Capitol Hill High School and suffered a severe spinal injury playing football that left him unable to walk for nine months.
His road to golf was precluded by a stint as a cab driver, where he met and sweet talked his eventual wife Juanita into a date. The golf journey started by building a driving range called Duffy’s Golf Land at NW 58th and May Ave. in OKC, followed by the building of The Brookside Golf Club after an unsuccessful attempt at the PGA Tour. He opened Cedar Valley in Guthrie in 1974 with Cedar Valley and The International courses then in 1992 he opened Cimarron National which had two courses, Cimarron National and Aqua Canyon. Martin was lent a hand in design work by Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame architect Floyd Farley but did a large part of the work himself.
Martin moved in fast circles at times, becoming good friends with actors Leslie Nielsen and James Garner, as well as golf royalty such as Arnold Palmer. He never went anywhere without his trusty “han-d-gas machine” which he would use to startle and horrify all unsuspecting souls no matter how formal the occasion.
Martin was a PGA member for more than 60 years and could run every aspect of his operation if needed. His courses were fun to play, did not have bunkers or much rough to slow things down and adequate water was a con- stant battle as they were fed by wells that tended to run dry.
“What costs people $3 to do, I can do for $1,” Martin said in summing up his philosophy. “I make everything count. Like dirt. I don’t move it here, then here, then here. I move it one time. That’s it. Don’t skid that rig until you’re through.”
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About the Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame:
The Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame (a 501C3 non-profit) was founded in 2014 by Edmond businessman Everett Dobson, owner of Oak Tree National and merged with the previously existing Oklahoma Women’s Golf Hall of Fame. This is the sixth induction class in a format that now inducts a class every other year. Induction videos, bios and acceptance speeches of all previous inductees are on the website at www.oklahomagolfhof.org. The Hall of Fame grants two $5,000 scholarship annually to Oklahoma high school seniors and also presents a $5,000 cash award (The Everett Dobson Award) to a graduating Oklahoma collegiate golfer to help them launch their career.
In addition to the Hall of Fame ceremonies, the organization holds a fund-raising golf tournament every other year at a prominent location in Tulsa or Oklahoma City. The 2023 event was held at Southern Hills Country Club.
Anyone wishing more information or to get involved, please call 918-280-0787 or email ken@golfoklahoma.org.
