Championship Division
1st Matthew Bartnick – 138
2nd Ahmad Reedus – 139
3rd Jeffrey Andrus – 142
Flight 2 Division
1st Ryan Monette – 158
2nd Kenan Giroux – 165
3rd Patrick McCarthy – 174
Flight 3 Division
1st Frank Comito – 147
2nd Edward Goller – 150
3rd Kevin Smith – 151
Flight 4 Division
1st Al Ryding – 150
2nd Raymond Ensley – 151
3rd Collis Love – 160
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.”