ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. --- Pete Dye, who designed more than 120 courses with risk-and-reward options that brought pleasure to some and frustration to most, was among six people inducted Monday night into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

The 2008 class featured an amateur, an architect and an author, along with three major champions.

Craig Wood was the only player elected through the PGA Tour ballot. Wood, the first player to win the Masters Tournament and U.S. Open in the same year, in 1941, and the first to lose all four majors in extra holes, received the minimum 65 percent of the vote.

Three-time major champion Denny Shute and Bob Charles, the first left-handed player to win a major, got in through the Veteran's category.

Carole Semple Thompson, an amateur who won seven USGA championships and took part in 14 Curtis Cup matches; and Herbert Warren Wind, the writer who famously described a three-hole stretch at Augusta National Golf Club as "Amen Corner," were selected through the Lifetime Achievement category.

They brought membership in the Hall of Fame to 126.

Dye, selected through the Lifetime Achievement category, dismissed his career as digging up other people's property, but he shaped it into courses that held major championships, Ryder Cups and PGA Tour events. He became the fourth Hall of Famer whose primary occupation was a golf course architect.

"He has been a designer who has really tested us," said Greg Norman, who introduced Dye. "Pete has the ability to make you remember every shot you played."

Wood, who died in 1968, won 21 times on the PGA Tour.

None of his near-misses was more memorable than the 1935 Masters. He was the leader in the clubhouse when Gene Sarazen holed out from the 15th fairway for double eagle, then beat Wood in a playoff the next day. Two years before, he lost a British Open playoff at St. Andrews to Shute.

It was the first of three majors for Shute, who was described by Byron Nelson as "a lot better than people realize." Shute won the PGA Championship in consecutive years (1936-37), a feat that stood for 63 years until Tiger Woods matched him in 2000.

Shute, who died in 1974, won 16 times on the PGA Tour and played on three Ryder Cup teams.

Charles is the first player from New Zealand in the Hall of Fame, but is better known as the first lefty to win on the PGA Tour at the 1963 Houston Open and the first lefty to win a major, the British Open that summer.

He later won 23 times on the Champions Tour.