80. Hord Hardin: Hardin, who passed away in 1996 at the age of 84, was the third chairman of the Masters and Augusta National Golf Club, and was a stickler for tradition. If not for Hardin, the Masters might have turned into a commercial event like so many other tournaments, but Hardin was insistent that would never happen, once telling the world he was scared of "the Pizza Hut Masters." Along with all of that, Hardin was influential with the first major of the year, putting together the agreement that Augusta would dictate the terms of the television coverage of the tournament. Hardin played in seven U.S. Amateur championships and in the 1952 U.S. Open.
79. Mary Queen of Scots: You think you're the only one that rubbed your wife the wrong way for picking golf over family time on a sunny Saturday? Well, you are far from the first to let golf ruffle feathers. Mary Queen of Scots did this all the way back in the 16th century, when she played a round of golf two days after her husband, Lord Darnley, was murdered, bringing scowls from the church for not showing proper mourning, but hey, she didn't let it disrupt her handicap!
78. Young Tom Morris: The youngest holder of a major championship to date, Young Tom Morris, the son to Old Tom Morris, was the first child prodigy in the game (move over Michelle Wie). In 1869, Young Tom broke the course record at the Old Course at St. Andrews with a 77, a number that stood for 20 years. Young Tom won the British Open four times in five years, and probably would have had a longer reign as top golfer but died at the age of 24, just four months after his wife and baby died during a complicated childbirth.
77. Dan Jenkins: The self-proclaimed "Ancient Twitterer" for his commitment to major championship Tweets, Jenkins is arguably the most famous golf writer ever. His novel "Dead Solid Perfect" is on every golfer's nightstand, and was turned into a movie by HBO Films in 1988. Jenkins has produced over 500 pieces for Sports Illustrated.
76. Fred Corcoran: Man, where do you begin. Corcoran's list of achievements is nearly impossible to beat: He invented the first scorecard with different colors for bogeys, pars and birdies, he managed Sam Snead, Babe Zaharias and Ken Venturi, he helped found the LPGA and Golf Writers Association of America, and famously said he has three-putted in 47 different countries. Along with that, he was influential in bringing golf matches to troops during World War II. Makes your resume look a lot less full now, doesn't it?
75. Jack Whitaker: One of the voices of golf for CBS in the '60s and '70s, Whitaker was famously banned from covering the Masters when he referred to a big group of patrons as a "mob" in 1966, paving the way for the likes of Gary McCord and his "bikini wax" joke.
74. Judge Stanley Mosk: For golf fans, we owe a lot to Stanley Mosk, who fought the PGA of America's Caucasian-only policy when he received a hand-written letter from Charlie Sifford in 1959 saying he wasn't allowed to play because the color of his skin. Mosk, the California Attorney General at the time, brought together other attorney generals from other states, and eventually got the rule changed in 1961.
73. P.J. Boatwright Jr.: When you think of the Rules of Golf, you must think of P.J. Boatwright, the man some called "the authority" on the game's rules until he passed away in 1991. Boatwright joined the USGA in 1959 and became the executive director in 1969, rewriting the Rules of Golf in 1984 and recodifying the Decisions of the Rules of Golf in 1987. He wasn't a bad golfer either, playing in four U.S. Amateurs and making the cut at the 1950 U.S. Open.
72. Jan Stephenson: The term "sex sells" on the LPGA can be attributed to one person, and that's Jan Stephenson. The Australian-born player won 16 LPGA events and two majors, and was one of the first female golfers to market her body as a selling point, pushing others to try and do the same. Maybe more famous than that was the comment she made in 2003, when she said "Asians are killing the
