Powell and Stackhouse Bond Over Shared Legacy

Renee Powell and Mariah Stackhouse Photo: Fred Weston, LPGA

Renee Powell and Mariah Stackhouse stood on top of the ridgeline, separated in age by almost a half century but connected by the bond of a shared ancestral experience and by a love of the game they both acknowledge has not always welcomed those who look like them.

The valley below was green and lush, while sunlight twinkled off the towers of the cityscape behind, just a mile or so to the south but on the edge of another world. Neither woman held a golf club at the time, even though the game at its highest level was another part of their shared experience. This morning at the Bobby Jones Golf Course, a public facility between the Buckhead and Midtown neighborhoods of Atlanta, Georgia, Powell and Stackhouse were there to talk and to share and to educate.

They had only met the day before, the Sunday of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, when Powell walked from the first tee at A...