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Webb enters Golf Hall of Fame as youngest member

Australian golfer Karrie Webb became the youngest member of the World Golf Hall of Fame on Monday during induction ceremonies for five legends of the sport.

The 30-year-old Queenslander joined Japan's Ayako Okamoto and three others who were honored posthumously -- the course designer Alister MacKenzie, writer Bernard Darwin and Scotsman Willie Park, who won the first British Open in 1860.

Webb won the career Grand Slam at age 26 and is the only player to win all five events to be designed as majors. As a rookie in 1996, she won four titles and became the first LPGA player to win US$1 million in a season. She qualified for the Hall of Fame on points in 2000 but had to wait until this year's LPGA Championship before she had played the mandatory 10 years on the LPGA Tour to qualify for the honor shrine.

Okamoto has won 17 LPGA events, making her debut in 1981. She captured LPGA Player of the Year honors in 1987, leading the money list with four victories that season. She retired in 1997.
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