Minnesota Golf Hall of Fame
A life-time amateur from Saint Paul, Minnesota, Calin won several State Championships throughout her career and challenged for many more. She was a two-time champion and two-time runner-up of the Minnesota Women's State Match Play Championship, as well as a runner-up in the Minnesota Women's State Amateur Championship. After becoming a senior golfer, Calin captured four Minnesota Women's Senior Amateur titles and finished runner-up once. She also played in several USGA Women's Senior Amateur Championships and finished in the top 20 four times.
After a successful career in business, Tallman decided to take up the game of golf in 1922 at age fifty and quickly became one of the most decorated golfers in the Minnesota. Tallman won his first Minnesota Senior Amateur title in 1926 and went on to win the event three more times. On a national level, he won five Trans-Mississippi National Senior titles and competed in the 1927 USGA Amateur Championship. Tallman went on to win several other state and national titles and it was said that by 1936 he had one more than 140 trophies.
Tallman also served as the president of the Minnesota Golf Association from 1925-1930.
A PGA Member for fifty years Gorg dedicated himself to the profession and to growing the game. Gorg, the PGA Professional at Faribault Golf and Country Club from 1961-1999, was instrumental to the Minnesota Section PGA's leadership, serving as Section president from 1975-76 and on the PGA of America Board of Directors from 1979-81. Gorg was also named the Minnesota Section's Professional of the Year in 1971 and 1975, and the Horton Smith Award winner for education in 1982 and 1985.
Proficient in the rules of golf, Gorg has been an official at three PGA Championships, one Ryder Cup, and locally at the Tapemark Charity Pro-Am for more than thirty years. Gorg has also volunteered teaching the game of golf to Special Olympics Youth, students at the School of Deaf in Faribault, and three different school districts in southern Minnesota.
