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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
HONORING THE CHICAGO WOMEN'S GOLF CLUB (CWGC)
WHEREAS, The Chicago Women's Golf Club (CWGC) was founded in 1937 by a group of African American women who loved the game of golf including Anna Mae Black Robinson, Cleo Ball and Vivian Pitts, and over the 82-year history of the club has had over 3,500 members; and
WHEREAS, Anna Mae Black served as the founding president in 1937 and held the office for three terms until the end of 1939, and was also elected the fourth vice president of the United Golfers Association (UGA) at its 1944 annual meeting; and
WHEREAS, Anna Mae Robinson, Ella Williams, and Birdie Philpott petitioned the Cook County Board of Commissioners for privileges to play at the Pipe O' Peace Golf Club, and after many appeals, permission was finally granted to the CWGC to use the Pipe O'Peace facilities and the course became the official CWGC tournament site in 1952; and
WHEREAS, The Pipe-O-Peace Golf Course was established as the CWGC home course, and was later named The Joe Louis Golf Course in honor of Joe "The Champ" Louis AKA "The Brown Bomber" and became one of the Cook County Forest Preserves golf courses; and
WHEREAS, Anna Mae Robinson also saw a need to recognize African American golfers of the era and began a campaign for a UGA Hall of Fame; Through her undaunting efforts the UGA/National Afro-American Golfers Hall of Fame was established in 1959, as a tribute to all minority golfers, and Anna Mae, herself a professional golfer, was inducted into the National Afro-American Golfers Hall of Fame in 1962, and the Chicago Women's Golf Club was inducted in 2016 in Atlanta Georgia; and
WHEREAS, The CWGC elected Anna Mae Robinson as their thirteenth president in 1960; she served another three terms from 1960 to 1962, and during this tenure she was able to gain the support of the Borden Milk Company as a sponsor for the CWGC National Invitational Golf Tournament, their first corporate sponsor, but not their last; and
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