The PGA of America has renamed its Horton Smith Award.
The PGA's board of directors voted on the decision to change the name of the award, which honors a PGA member for outstanding contributions to professional education, to the PGA Professional Development Award.
The name change, which takes place immediately, comes the same week the PGA Tour is competing at Detroit Golf Club, where Smith, a two-time Masters champion, was a two-time Masters champion and PGA president from 1952-54.
Smith was a supporter of the PGA's “Caucasian-only” membership clause, which was part of the organization's bylaws from 1934-61.