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Player Profiles
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Organizations
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Historic Places
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Black-Owned Businesses
Why BLAC Golf
Who are the Black golfers competing professionally today? Who won The John Shippen? Which HBCUs field golf programs? Where did Black golf survive when the game shut its doors — places like Clearview Golf Club, built by hand when America wouldn't let its builder play?
BLAC Golf answers those questions with living profiles, data-driven rankings, and stories that stay connected to the people in them. When Willie Mack III wins again, his profile knows. This page is never finished — it learns.
— The BLAC Editorial Team
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The next wave — debut editorial board.
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Top 25 Black College Golfers
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Top Black Professional Golfers
The BLAC Golf editorial board's debut power ranking.
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Collections
Curated answers — the people, places, and moments that define Black golf, assembled by our editors.
5 Entries
Black Women in Golf
The players and builders who carried Black women's golf from Althea Gibson's barrier-breaking to today's tours — and the community bringing the next generation in.
Explore →5 Entries
Hallowed Ground: The Historic Courses
The courses Black golfers built, owned, and defended when the game shut its doors.
Explore →6 Entries
The Firsts
Every door in golf was opened by someone. These are the people who opened them.
Explore →The Player Directory
The Legends
The Organizations
APGA Tour
To bring greater diversity to golf by developing Black and minority professionals for the game's highest levels.
Bethune-Cookman University Golf
The program that produced Willie Mack III.
Black College Golf Coaches Association
To advance golf programs and student-athletes at HBCUs.
Black Girls Golf
To make golf a comfortable, welcoming place for Black women and girls.
Florida A&M University Golf
Rattler golf.
The Places
Clearview Golf Club
East Canton, OHThe only golf course in America designed, built, and owned by an African American. Bill Powell seeded its first nine holes by hand after WWII; it is on the National Register of Historic Places and still run by the Powell family.
Detroit Golf Club
Detroit, MIHost of the PGA Tour's Rocket Classic and The John Shippen National Invitational — where Black professional golf takes its biggest annual stage in Detroit.
Langston Golf Course
Washington, DCOpened in 1939 for Black golfers shut out of Washington's courses, Langston became the capital's home of Black golf and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Palmer Park Golf Course
Detroit, MIA Detroit muni at the heart of the city's Black golf community for generations.
Rackham Golf Course
Huntington Woods, MIThe Detroit-area public course where Joe Louis played and bankrolled Black professional golf — a cornerstone of the city's deep golf history.
Stories
Golf games inside a stadium. That’s what Tiger Woods and the co-founders of TMRW Sports is promising to deliver.
Tiger Woods is already one of the most accomplished golfers of all time, and now he can add another impressive feather to his cap. According to Forbes, Woods’ net worth is now estimated to be at least $1 billion, which would make him one of only three athlete billionaires in the world. Woods joins Michael […]
The John Shippen National Golf Invitational was established by Intersport to identify historical barriers and expand upon Black representation in the sport of golf to create awareness, access, and opportunities for persons of color in the business of sports. The event is named after John Shippen, Jr., the first American-born golf professional and first Black […]
Black-Owned Golf
Apparel & lifestyle
Eastside Golf
Founded by Morehouse golf alumni Olajuwon Ajanaku and Earl Cooper, Eastside Golf became the defining Black-owned golf brand, collaborating with Jordan Brand and the PGA of America.
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