THE JOHN SHIPPEN National Golf Invitational Women’s Tournament THE JOHN SHIPPEN National Golf Invitational returned to a new location at Blythefield Country Club in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The 36-hole stroke play competition for Black women golfers was held June 5 –

Andy Walker will coach Team USA at the prestigious Toyota Junior Golf World Cup in Japan this summer. Andy is a BDSA alumnus who graduated from Pepperdine University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. The late Bill Dickey was fond of Andy and mentored him as a junior golfer.

Troy Taylor II, an outstanding scholar of the Bill Dickey Scholarship Association, maintains the second-place position in the current standings while Everett Whiten Jr., a Bill Dickey Invitational alumnus is in third place.

The BDSA would like to congratulate the newly-selected members of the PGA LEAD Class. Established in 2016, PGA LEAD is the Association’s leadership development program, created to identify, mentor and progress PGA Members from diverse backgrounds along a guided path to volunteer leadership roles at the Chapter, Section and national levels of the Association.

Oliver Carlton Jemmott Sunrise December 4, 1941 - Sunset June 26, 2022 Oliver was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 4, 1941. He was the first born of his parents Hilda Butler of Hertford County, North Carolina, and

Congratulations to the winners and all participants in the John Shippen National Invitational.