The Arkansas State Golf Association recently announced the addition of four members to its hall of fame in the class of 2025.

Included in the class, which will be inducted at a later date and location, are Rise Alexander, Deane Pappas, Darrell Shelton and Glen Talbert.

Alexander was born in Laurel, Miss., and raised in Hot Springs. She was a fixture in the ASGA junior program, having won multiple junior and high school championships in Arkansas as well as Oregon. After graduating from Oregon State University, she pursued a professional career and later became the head women’s golf coach at her alma mater. She later served as the head coach at Texas-Rio Grande Valley and held assistant coaching positions at NC State, SMU and the University of Central Arkansas.

A past president of the Women’s Golf Coaches Association, Alexander most recently qualified for the 2024 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur at Broadmoor Golf Club in Seattle.

Pappas was born in Phalaborwa, South Africa, and played collegiately at the University of Arkansas where he was named to the school’s Hall of Honor in 2002. In 1992, he was named the SEC Player of the Year and earned first-team All-American honors.

He competed professionally on the Sunshine Tour in South Africa, the Korn Ferry Tour, the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions. Pappas amassed eight victories and numerous top-10 finishes throughout his professional career.

He founded and operated the Deane Pappas Golf Academy in Fayetteville and later served as the director of golf at RidgePointe Country Club in Jonesboro from 2013-24. Currently, he is the director of golf at Cooper’s Hawk Golf Course in Melbourne.

A Tennessee native, Shelton played collegiately at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn. He began his career as an assistant at Temple Hills Country Club in Franklin, Tenn., in 1983 before being promoted to head professional there the next year. He moved on to Belle Meade Country Club in Nashville where he worked for eight years.

In 1994, Shelton relocated to Little Rock where he became the head professional at the Country Club of Little Rock, a position he has held for more than three decades. At CCLR, he was named the South Central PGA Chapter Private Merchandiser of the Year five times and the PGA Section Private Merchandiser of the Year twice. In 2012, he won the PGA Chapter Horton Smith Award which recognizes PGA members who contribute to professional education and promote inclusion.

Shelton and CCLR have hosted 25 U.S. Amateur championship event qualifiers on the men’s, women’s and junior levels.

Born in Carthage, Talbert now calls Sheridan his home. He is one of the most accomplished golfers in the history of the ASGA, most notably competing in the 1984 U.S. Amateur, being named the Super-Senior Player of the Year in 2011 and winning the Super-Senior Match Play Championship three consecutive years (2016-18.)

Talbert won the Jack Williams Four-Ball Championship nearly two dozen times and also captured the ASGA Mid-Amateur Match Play Championship in 2010 at the age of 65.

    Rise Alexander
  

    Darrell Shelton