New Sites and Surroundings: 2021 PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship Preview
By Jeff Babineau
Sunday, May 2, 2021
Scooter Clark views the PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship as something much bigger than a golf tournament. For Clark and many others, the event represents an opportunity to promote greater diversity in golf, and to help to gain more inclusion across the golf industry.
Clark would know. He played in the first National Minority College Championship in 1987 when he still was in high school, played in it twice more as a college player, coached his team to victory in the event, and now runs it as director of the Championship.
PGA TOUR University and APGA Tour announce APGA Collegiate Ranking
Program designed to help top Black college golfers ascend into professional ranks October 26, 2020
The APGA Collegiate Ranking will allow five players to earn exemptions into APGA Tour events as well as Korn Ferry Tour Q-School. (Keyur Khamar/PGA TOUR)
Demonstrating its commitment to growing and diversifying the game of golf, PGA TOUR University and the APGA Tour announced today a new program to help top Black golfers transition from the collegiate game into the professional ranks. The new APGA Collegiate Ranking identifies five players from Division I, II or III programs – including HBCUs – and exempts them into summer events on the APGA Tour as well as the Pre-Qualifying Stage of the Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament that same year starting in 2021.