She competed on the tour until 1980 and is now the head pro at Clearview.
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In 1967, Renee Powell became the second black woman, after Althea Gibson, to play on the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour. Powell designed a miniature golf club and gave her lessons at Clearview. Returning to Timken after the war, he worked nights to support his family while building his golf course. Powell was hired at Timken as a janitor, but a few months later he became the company’s first black security guard. With few decent job openings for blacks, Mr. Believe in yourself, even when others don’t.” “I did not want other people who wanted to play the game of golf to have to suffer the indignities that I had,” he said. In it, he explained why he had built Clearview. Seated in a large leather chair, he read an acceptance speech that his daughter, Renee, a pioneering figure in women’s pro golf, helped him craft. And he was accorded four standing ovations by the audience of more than 600 at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis. of America, he received congratulations from President Obama and former President George H. Powell, bent by age, was honored by the P.G.A.
“He put all his efforts mentally, emotionally and physically into accomplishing his goal.” Powell’s son, Larry, the Clearview course superintendent, told ABC’s “Good Morning America” in 2009. The Department of the Interior designated Clearview as a national historic site in 2001. Powell expanded it to 18 holes in 1978, having bought a total of 130 acres. There were incidents of vandalism in the course’s early years flag sticks were removed and ethnic slurs scrawled but the course flourished, and Mr.
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