Ben Smith (golfer)

Benjamin Sandipher Smith (March 16, 1921 – July 21, 2009) was an American golfer.

[1] He moved to Ann Arbor in 1939, and in his four years at the University of Michigan he finished 3rd, 2nd, and 1st in the Big Ten Championship.

[1] In 1943, Smith was the president of the National Intercollegiate Golf Association and worked with Chick Evans in his caddy scholarship program.

[3] After he graduated from Michigan, Smith served three and a half years in the US Navy, and then returned to Detroit.

[5] Finally, In 1995, he was inducted into the inaugural Fort Myers High School Green Wave Golf Hall of Fame.