Jim Beatty, founder of the African American Golf EXPO and Forum, announces the Jerry Tarde Awards for 2027 to be presented at EXPO 2027, which will be collocated with the PGA Show.
The Jerry Tarde Legacy Award will be presented to Renee Powell, and the Jery Tarde Courage Award will be presented to Pete McDaniel.
Renee is the LPGA/PGA Head Golf Professional at historic Clearview Golf Club in East Canton, Ohio. She has committed her life to expanding golf to more youth, women, seniors, minorities, and military veterans. She also made an impact in the golf industry as a designer of golf apparel, and as a guest commentator at U.S. golf events on both CBS and ABC. Renee has informed, inspired, and enlightened countless audiences locally, nationally, and internationally.
The Legacy award is:
- GIVEN TO SOMEONE WHO HAS IMPACTED THE SPORT/INDUSTRY
- THEIR EFFORTS MIGHT HAVE BEEN UNPOPULAR AT THE TIME
- MADE A DIFFERENCE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS
- CREATED OPPORTUNITIES for others
The Jery Tarde Courage Award will be given to Pete McDaniel, a noted industry journalist and best-selling author. The North Carolinian, who began his career in journalism in 1974, co-authored the late Earl Woods’ best-selling book Training a Tiger and Tiger Woods’ best-seller How I Play Golf. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Uneven Lies: The Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf.
The Courage award is given to:
- A PERSON CAUSING CHANGE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS AND PEOPLE OF COLOR
- SOMEONE WHO FINDS A WAY TO WORK WITH GOLF’S POWER STRUCTURE
- SOMEONE WHO FINDS A WAY TO WORK AT THE LOCAL AND COMMUNITY LEVELS
- SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN CONSISTENT AND MADE SACRIFICES
- SOMEONE THE INDUSTRY ACKNOWLEDGES AND RESPECTS
About Renee Powell
Renee Powell is one of the most resilient and persevering athletes of our time, and golf’s greatest living ambassador. Raised on the East Canton, Ohio golf course built by her father, William “Bill” Powell, during times of racial adversity and segregation, Renee learned early on what it meant to excel against the odds.
By age three, she was swinging a golf club for the first time, and early in her teenage years she had won more than 30 tournaments. In 1967, she became the second African-American woman to compete on the LPGA Tour. She has played in more than 250 worldwide events. Renee won the 1973 Kelly Springfield Open in Brisbane, Australia.
Renee became an International Goodwill Ambassador traveling to Africa on more than 25 trips to host golf clinics..
In 2011, she launched Clearview HOPE (Helping Our Patriots Everywhere) a cost-free, year-round therapeutic and recreational golf program specifically for women veterans. In 2016, Clearview also became the site for a PGA HOPE program, which attracted male veterans.
In 2008, Renee became the third American, and the only woman golfer, to ever receive an honorary doctorate from The University of St. Andrews. In 2015, she became one of two American women initially given honorary membership into the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews. And in 2018, the 600-plus year old University of St. Andrews made Renee the first American to have a campus building dedicated in her name.
Renee is a member of 12 Halls of Fame, and her other notable awards include being named PGA of America First Lady of Golf, the LPGA Rolex For the Love of the Game Award, the PGA Tour Card Walker Award, the USGA Ike Grainger Award, the LPGA Pioneer Award, and the inaugural Charlie Sifford Award for advancing diversity in the game of golf..
Renee is a Board Member Emeritus of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and board member of the Mercy Medical Center, Stark Convention & Visitors Bureau, Pathway Caring for Children and Rotary International.
For more information about Renee Powell, please visit www.clearviewgolfclub.com
About Pete McDaniel
McDaniel is a freelance writer and best-selling author. The North Carolinian, who began his career in journalism in 1974, co-authored the late Earl Woods’ best-selling book Training a Tiger and Tiger Woods’ best-seller How I Play Golf. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed Uneven Lies: The Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf. As senior writer for Golf Digest and Golf World magazines from 1993 to 2009, McDaniel collaborated on golf instruction and feature articles with Tiger Woods. He was under contract with Golf Digest as an instruction editor/writer in 2010-12. In 2014, he teamed with famed sculptor Mario Chiodo to produce Honoring the Legacy: A Tribute to African-Americans in Golf, a permanent exhibit at the World Golf Hall of Fame & Museum. McDaniel is an inductee into the National Black Golf Hall of Fame and the African-American Golfers Hall of Fame.