Don Whitt

Donald Everett Whitt (November 15, 1930 – September 25, 2013[1]) was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s.

Whitt was a student of accomplished black golf instructor Lucius Bateman, teacher of such other multiple-tournament-winning PGA Touring pros as Tony Lema, John McMullin, and Dick Lotz.

Developing his swing at Oakland's Airway Fairways driving range under Bateman's tutelage, Whitt captured the 1948 Alameda Commuters tournament as a teenager and that summer came within one hole of winning the Northern California Junior Golf Championship.

That same year, in an article heralding professional golf's "Young Timers" Time magazine wrote of Whitt's "tremendous rally...that included a startling hole-in-one on the 145-yd 13th" before bowing - again to Finsterwald - in the semi-finals of the 1957 PGA Championship.

After retiring from full-time play on the Tour, Whitt worked as a teaching pro at the San Diego Golf Academy.