Awards and Honors
- Smith was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1990.
- In 1962, he was voted the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf.
- The PGA of America annually grants the Horton Smith Award to a PGA professional who has made "outstanding and continuing contributions to PGA education."
- Smith has a golf course named after him in Springfield, Missouri.
- He is attributed with being the first professional golfer to study putting as a means to beat his opponents
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