Inducted, 1998

Dick Kramer, 77, has been the head professional at Bonneville Golf Course in Salt Lake City for more than half a century and has earned legions of friends among Utah golfers. No golf professional in Utah has ever been a club professional for 53 years, and Kramer has done it all at one club.

He was born and raised in Salt Lake City and was an all-state performer at Granite High School in 1937 in both football and basketball and played both sports at the University of Utah.

He was named head professional at Bonneville in 1943, and except for a two-year stint in the Navy, has held that position through his induction date into the Utah Golf Hall of Fame.

He won many professional tournaments on the Utah circuit, and also won the Idaho Open. He is also recognized as an outstanding golf teacher.

He served as President of the Rocky Mountain Section of the PGA and has received the Professional of the Year Award and a Special Achievement Award from the Utah Section of the PGA.

He has conducted the Salt Lake City Amateur since 1943 and the City Parks Open from the early 50s.

Bonneville has been the training ground for thousands of golfers and many of those them have continued to serve golf in all facets of the industry. He trained many youngsters to be club professionals and greenskeepers.

He married Doris Swenson and they had two children, Shannon (deceased) and Richard Kramer, Jr