Bethune-Cookman grad Willie Mack III wins APGA
Fred Jeter | 10/27/2022, 6 p.m.
HBCU’s have produced an impres- sive list of pro football, basketball, baseball and track stars.
But golf?
Willie Mack III, a graduate of Bethune-Cookman University in Florida, is the latest Black golfer to make a name for himself on the play-for-pay circuit.
The 34-year-old native of Flint, Mich., won the APGA (Advocates Pro Golf Association) Butterworth Bermuda tournament earlier this month.
The title was worth $15,000 and earned Mack an exemption to the PGA Butterworth Bermuda tournament starting Oct. 27 on the same Port Royal Golf Course.
Mack has been APGA Player of the Year the past two seasons and has won 70 pro tournaments on various tours. As a Bethune-Cookman Wildcat, he won 11 college tournaments.
Also, in 2011 Mack became the first Black golfer to win the Michigan Amateur State crown.
