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Historic Clearview Golf Course Has Survived 7 Decades of Challenges

by Debert Cook

A short film that tells the story of Bill Powell and his triumph in building Ohio’s Clearview Golf Club, in East Canton, Ohio, the first and only public golf course in America designed, built, owned and operated by an African-American. Today, over seven decades later, the course still survives.  Now headed by Powell’s daughter, Renee Powell (PGA/LPGA) and his son, Larry (course superintendent), together they have accomplished the nearly impossible.  (Published on Feb 22, 2014)

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