Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/01/2024
12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Location
Turner's Lodge Pro Golf Museum at Falconhead Resort
(Burneyville, OK, April 11, 2024) The residents of Falconhead Resort in Burneyville, OK, are holding a
public event on May 1 to honor the late Pete Brown, who was the first African American member of the
PGA to win a Tour event.
Brown made history in the 1964 Waco Turner Open, when Falconhead was known as Turner’s Lodge
Golf Club.
That course was built by Waco and Opie Turner to host professional golf, and for a time, was an official
stop on both the LPGA Tour (1958-1959) and the PGA Tour (1961-1964).
Notables from the world of golf will speak at 12:30 p.m. from the 18th green. It was there, on the 1964
tournament’s final hole, that Brown, a 29-year-old from Jackson, MS, scored a nerve-wracking one-putt
par 3 to win over Dan Sikes (280-281) and start a new chapter in tournament golf. Miller Barber,
Tommy Aaron, and Paul Bundeson tied for third at 282.
Guests will learn about Pete Brown’s career and character and what it took for Black golfers to
overcome the “Caucasian-only” membership clause, adopted by the PGA in 1934, that kept them off the
Tour until the 1962 season.
The sponsoring Turner’s Lodge Pro Golf Museum has announced the speakers for the “Pete Brown
Diamond Jubilee.”
