The goal of the tournament founders was “to provide a national stage for players from minority colleges and universities to compete in NCAA collegiate golf events.” That said, not all of the golfers at Lincoln are black. Truth be told, none of them are.
Winning the PGA Minority Championship will not come easily. The Blue Tigers of Lincoln will have to knock off last year’s championship team, the historically black Bethune-Cookman University from Daytona Beach, Florida. Last year, all the Bethune-Cookman Wildcat golfers were white as well.
Now here is where things get really silly/perverse/unconstitutional: none of the Wildcats or Blue Tigers, no matter how good they are, can compete in the Individual Invitational part of the PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship.
The individual competition is limited to participants who are “African-American, Hispanic-American, Middle Eastern/North African, Native or Alaskan American, Asian or Pacific Island American.”
In other words, the only people excluded from participating in the individual minority tournament are the 10 or so percent of the world’s people of European descent, save, inexplicably, for those Europeans from the Iberian peninsula. I suspect if these students bring the results from their most recent DNA test and can show an Elizabeth Warren-style drop or two of some “minority” blood, they will be hard to turn away.