Double Major winning Mark O’Meara is not the latest great of the game to be snubbed by golf’s World Hall of Shame.

O’Meara, despite an Open Championship and Masters title along with 25 other victories around the globe and being a member of five USA Ryder Cup sides, has been talking recently about his disappointment in continuing to be over-looked by the Florida-based body.

”To be honest, I was a little disappointed I didn’t even get considered,” O’Meara said in an Associated Press article.

Mark O’Meara continues to be snubbed by the World Golf Hall of Fame. (Photo – www.golffile.ie)

O’Meara said he was hurt when learning good friend Fred Couples, who polled just 51% of the vote and the lowest ever on the PGA Tour ballot, would be a 2013 inductee.

Ken Venturi, who also had 38 percent of the vote, recently was selected through Lifetime Achievement.  O’Meara, with 16 wins and two majors, was fourth at 36 percent.

“It was disappointing and no disrespect at all to Fred Couples, who has had a lovely career,” said O’Meara also in the same Associated Press piece.

“I understand that he won two TPCs, the Masters. But I won more PGA Tour events, more majors. I won a US Amateur.

“I mention this to Bernhard Langer and he said, `You’re going to get in.’ Is it when I stop playing? When I’m 6 feet under. When there’s no one left to put in?”

www.golfbytourmiss.com recently highlighted a number of other glaring exclusions.

There is Scotland’s Colin Montgomerie, and a winner of eight European Order of Merit titles and 40 tournament victories around the globe.

Also one of the all-time greatest-ever female golfers in Laura Davies, a winner of 81 professional wins worldwide, with 20 on the LPGA Tour, including four Major, since turning professional in 1985.

However for some reason Davies still needs only one major victory or two regular LPGA Tour wins to enter the World Golf Hall of Fame.

There is legendary Australian Norman Von Nida and fellow Australian in David Graham who continues  to be snubbed by the Florida based body.

Graham is no longer on  the international ballot paper, but remains a candidate in the lifetime  achievement category.

He is winner of not one Major as 2013 inductee Ken Venturi but two the 1979 U.S. PGA at Oakland Hills and  the 1981 U.S. Open at Merion where the U.S. Open will be staged next year.

Graham also had won six other PGA Tour events for a total of 37 worldwide  victories. He has been on Augusta National’s cup and tee committee for the  Masters, thus playing a key role in the set-up of the course.

Graham’s autobiography has just been released – David Graham – From Ricicule to Acclaim – and in the book Stoney says there is reference to his continual Hall of Fame snub.

“It is embarrassing, and I think  it shows the inadequacies that exist in it when some players are getting in  without winning major championships because they’re from certain countries,” said Graham in his book.

“I  have no interest in being in there when I’m dead. If it’s going to happen they’d  better do it while I’m alive. I’m not having my family there when I’m  gone.”