Andy Walker has been named recipient of the inaugural Black College Golf Coaches Association (BCGCA) Coach of the Year award.

Walker, a longtime golf professional and premier golf instructor, is no stranger to advocating for all youth, and historically Black youth, in a field where opportunities for inclusion and status have been difficult to attain. A 1998 graduate of Pepperdine University, Walker is believed to have been of the two first African Americans to play on an NCAA Division 1 Men’s Golf Championship team. In 1997 he won the NCAA National Championship at Pepperdine, and was later inducted into the Pepperdine Sports Hall of Fame. Walker’s golf prowess goes back many years, as it was 25 years ago when MGM… Read More »

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Historically black colleges and universities and their golf programs

By Herschel Caldwell Notwithstanding the colleges and universities commonly known as HBCU were formed well before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the original purpose was to provide an education for reconstruction era African Americans. They were created to make sure that Blacks who sought an advanced education could get one in a separate but not so equal society. These schools also offered young African American male and female athletes an otherwise impossible opportunity to develop their skills. As a matter of history, a Black University produced one the centuries great quarterbacks Doug Williams (Grambling, who led his team… Read More »

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