![]() But there are no Calvin Peetes, Jim Dents and Jim Thorpes on today’s tour.Ī young black player might consider following Bill Powell’s silhouette instead, and his example. When black kids saw Michael Jordan they also saw Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant and realized there were several levels of basketball riches. It’s more expensive to seriously compete on the junior level than ever, and colleges are giving far more football and basketball grants than golf scholarships.Īnd Woods is too good to imagine emulating. Powell might have expected to see a cadre of young black pros marching up the ladder, 12 years after Woods’ first Masters victory. At least he will be there to see it, the same way he hung around to see the son of another black serviceman become the world’s most famous and richest athlete and the winner of more PGA Tour events than anyone except Sam Snead and Jack Nicklaus. So the PGA certainly can’t be accused of jumping the gun by honoring Powell. Clearview Golf Club of East Canton, Ohio, where the late William James Bill Powell carved a gem of a public course out of a dilapidated dairy farm, celebrates its 75th anniversary this. Marcella was Bill’s wife for 56 years and died in 1996. Tee times will begin at 12 noon with a buffet dinner to follow. And Tiger Woods feels connected enough to the story to award William and Marcella Powell scholarships through the Tiger Woods Foundation. The club outing will be at Brentwood CC on Sunday, August 6th. One Clearview veteran is Alan Page, the old Minnesota Vikings pass rusher who became a justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court. That was the front nine, as it turned out. He planted trees and grass, and everything was natural. It wasn’t a matter of a blueprint or anything. “Then he’d go to the store and work at night. “He’d go out and work on the golf course all day,” Renee said. He worked at night, as a security guard at Timken Department Store. But Powell didn’t have much change to spare. He found some dairy land near Canton and talked some black doctors into the project, and they were willing because he had taught them the game. But when he came home, he was surprised, and saddened, to find the tee boxes were still closed. He fought in Europe during World War II and took on some Scottish courses in his downtime. At 16 he hitch-hiked 42 miles to a Canton club to play in a junior tournament and finished third. Powell organized a high school golf team and then played while he attended Wilbertorce University. He started caddying, and he wanted to learn, and he studied everything other golfers did. “He grew up in a little town called Minerva,” Renee said, “and he just saw some guys playing golf and was fascinated by it. Powell was a strong amateur but never even fantasized about playing professionally. Clearview Park Golf Course, located at the foot of the Throgs Neck Bridge in Queens, is a Top Choice for New York City Golfers. It is the only course that was built by and is owned by African-Americans. There is an Ohio historical marker on the first tee. ![]() There are just 15 golf courses that have reached the National Register of Historic Places, and Clearview is one. The Powells will be in Minneapolis on Wednesday night, where Bill will receive the PGA’s Distinguished Service Award, on the eve of the PGA Championship at Hazeltine.
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