Fred Ridley Children: Meet Libby, Sydney, And Maggie

Fred Scobie Ridley is an American amateur golfer and golf administrator who won the U.S. Amateur in 1975 and became chairman of Augusta National Golf Club in 2017.

Fred Riley graduated from the University of Florida’s College of Business Administration with a bachelor’s degree in marketing in 1974.

In 1975, Fred Riley won the U.S. Amateur, the preeminent amateur golf tournament in the United States, on the James River Course of the Country Club of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.

Fred Riley defeated Keith Fergus in the 36-hole final, having beaten Curtis Strange and Andy Bean in previous rounds of the match-play championship.

In 1976, Fred Riley won the Monroe Invitational and also competed in the 1976 British Open later in the year.

Fred Ridley was a member of the 1976 Eisenhower Trophy team. Late in the year he was ranked the #10 amateur in the country by Golf Digest.

Fred Ridley never turned professional and to date, remains the last U.S. Amateur champion to have never become a professional golfer.

For his personal life, Fred Riley is married to Elizabeth (“Betsy”) Herndon, a fellow University of Florida graduate and they have three daughters; Libby, Sydney, And Maggie.