- Tournament will be take place September 13-14, 2025.
- Deadline to sign up for the tournament is September 6, 2025.
- Price to sign up is $175. Checks can be made out to Rackham Golf Course.
- All entrants whose applications are accepted will be notified by email, if an address is provided.
- Verification may also be accomplished by calling Rackham Golf Course at (248)543-4040.
- 2025 Registration Application
- Tee times will be released to the participants on September 11, 2025.
- The tournament is eligible for anyone over the age of 18.
- Players may choose to walk with a caddie during a stipulated round.
- A player may bring his own caddie or carry his own bag.
- Players may choose to ride a golf cart during a stipulated round. Only the player may use the golf cart (caddie cannot ride along) and will be paired up in a cart with participants with the same tee time.
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Golf legend Ben Davis, Joe Louis’ one-time teacher and the first African American in the country to serve as head pro at a municipal course, passed away at age 101. He was born Erellon Ben Davis in Pensacola, FL, moved to Detroit in 1925, and graduated from Detroit Northern High.
In 1936, Davis began giving golf lessons at Pine Crest Driving Range in Ferndale, MI. In 1952, working for Rackham Golf Course in Huntington Woods, he became an icon and taught for more than 50 years.
Two years later, as the head pro at Rackham, he became the first African American to hold that position at a U.S. municipal course and the first African American member of the Michigan Section of the PGA (1966). Davis and Louis — the Detroit heavyweight boxing legend — became friends, and for years Louis hosted an annual tournament for amateurs at Rackham.
Davis also was an accomplished tournament player and won the 1974 Michigan PGA Seniors title. He was inducted into the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame in 1992.
In 2007, to mark his 95th birthday, Huntington Woods proclaimed his birthday as “Ben Davis Day” for being “instrumental in the desegregation of golf as a major sport in southeast Michigan.”