Bob "Drummer" Drum

Bob Drum's greatest gift to Myrtle Beach was an audience. As a sportswriter and storyteller, he introduced the Grand Strand to golfers across the country and helped turn a quiet beach town into the Golf Capital of the World.

An All-American basketball player at the University of Alabama, Drum saw his professional basketball ambitions interrupted by World War II. In 1948 he joined The Pittsburgh Press as a sportswriter and began covering a 14-year-old prodigy from Latrobe, Pennsylvania, named Arnold Palmer. Drum became Palmer's trusted friend, publicist, confidant and collaborator, and helped build the legend of "Arnie's Army."

With fellow Hall of Famer Jimmy D'Angelo, Drum co-founded the annual Golf Writers Association of America tournament in Myrtle Beach. Held each spring before the Masters, it brought the nation's leading golf journalists to the Grand Strand year after year.

It was at the 1960 GWAA tournament that Drum popularized the modern idea of golf's "Grand Slam" as Palmer set out after the Masters, U.S. Open, Open Championship and PGA Championship. His son, Kevin Drum, accepted the induction on his behalf.