CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Golf Association recently announced the seventh class inducted into the Hall of Fame. Wheeling’s Sally Carroll, Steve Fox and Larry Martin will join the likes of hall of famers Fritzi Stifel Quarrier and Stuart Bloch.

Carroll was a staple in shaping women’s golf in West Virginia, starting in the late 1950s. She was seven-time Women’s W.Va. Amateur Champion, last claiming a victory in 1970. She also won the W.Va. Senior Women’s Amateur in 1977, 1986 and 1987.

On the national stage she finished as the second low amateur in two separate US Women’s Open Championships.

For 20 years Carroll served on the USGA Women’s Committee and was the chairperson of the US Girl’s Junior Championship Committee, as well as serving as the President of the US Women’s Golf Association.

She graduated Pennsylvania’s Seton Hill University in 1948 and in 2009 initiated the “Sally Carroll Golf Open” which is still being held today.

Steve Fox of Huntington was a two-time West Virginia Amateur Champion. (In 1988 and 1994.) He was also a WV Mid-Amateur Champion, five-time WV Senior Amateur Champion, 11-time WV Four-Ball Champion, four-time WV Senior Four-Ball Champion and 2014 WV Senior Open Champion.

Larry Martin came to West Virginia in 1974 where he started as an assistant golf professional at Parkersburg County Club and later became the head golf professional there as well as general manager. In 1976 he was the youngest Class A Golf Professional in the US at the age of 23. Martin spent 25 years with Parkersburg County Club promoting golf in the area and statewide.

The goal of the West Virginia Golf Hall of Fame is to recognize those individuals who have made a profound impact on the game of golf in the Mountain State. The induction ceremony will take place in November at a site to be determined.