Lee, who spent more than six years on the PGA Tour, helped Guilford to its first national golf championship.
Lee Porter ’89, a two-time NAIA All-American at Guilford and former PGA Tour golfer, is one of 12 people who will be inducted into the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame this fall.
Last week, Hall of Fame officials announced the 2025 class that will be inducted in a ceremony at First Horizon Coliseum in September.
Lee, a Greensboro native who was inducted into the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003, is excited to be joining his former golf coach, the late Jack Jensen, in the county’s sports hall of fame. “Being in there next to Coach Jensen makes it all the more special,” he says.
He is among 18 Guilfordians in the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame all-time.
Lee spent six years as an exempt member of the PGA Tour in the 1990s and early 2000s, finishing his career with three top-10 finishes, 11 top-25 finishes and just over $1.5 million in career earnings on the Tour in 185 events.
In 16 years as a professional golfer, he also played on the Canadian, Japanese, European, South American, Australian, Korean and Malaysian circuits.
In 2022, Lee competed in his first competitive tournament in 18 years, finishing second at the R&A Senior Amateur Championship in Scotland. He won the 63rd Carolinas Senior Amateur last fall.
As an NAIA affiliate, with Lee serving as captain, Guilford won its first national golf title in 1989. That season, the Quakers played in 14 regular-season tournaments, winning five of them.
Aside from collegiate competition with Guilford, Lee won the individual title in the World University Golf Championship in Italy in 1988 and the North & South Amateur in 1989.
As a collegian, he won academic as well as performance All-America honors twice.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a minor in Accounting from Guilford and has been an active real estate investor since 1994.