PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship

The National Minority College Golf Championship originated from a meeting in November 1986 following the Jackson State University Golf Tournament. The late Dr. Herschel Cochrane, President, and Dr. Joe D. Saunders of the National Negro Golf Association, Jackson State University Golf Coach Eddie Payton, Rose Harper-Elder of the Sports Management Institute and William (Bill) Dickey, founder of National Minority Junior Golf Scholarship Association and the 1999 PGA Distinguished Service Award winner, are credited as the founders of this Championship.

The first Championship was conducted in the spring of 1987 at Highland Park Golf Course in Cleveland, Ohio. Since 1998, The PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla., has been host to the Championship.

In 2006, The PGA of America was granted complete ownership and management of the championship by the National Minority Collegiate Golf Scholarship Fund.

At the 22nd PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship, nearly 200 contestants from 47 colleges and universities, representing 14 countries comprised the field for the Championship. The men's or women's golf teams from Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla., captured the Division I men's and women's titles.