COVER STORY Giving it a Mulbe Dillard IV, the nation’s No. 1-ranked minority collegiate golfer and former Chicago city champ, embarks on his PGA Tour dream BY HERB GOULD W hen Mulbe Dillard III decided to take up golf, he would tell his wife he was going to the Jackson Park driving range to practice. Capital, where she now is head of the Corporate Investment Banking Division, that was only natural. “I was the first golfer because I wanted to play for business, [to] not be the only one stuck in the office when everyone else was out there playing golf with their clients,” she said. “Then I got my husband to play, so that I would have a partner.” Given that Dillard III, who is a superintendent in the City of Chicago Water Department, had played quarterback at Dunbar Vocational High School and was looking for an age-appropriate sport, it “You’d better take him, too,” she would say, point-ing to their infant son. So, he bundled up Mulbe Dillard IV and brought him along. “I propped him up in the carrier on the bench and covered him up so the mosquitoes wouldn’t get him,” said Dillard III. The next Christmas, there was a set of plastic golf clubs under the tree for young Mulbe. His mother, Sidney, had been the first in the fam-ily to take up golf. As an investment banker at Loop 26 | CHICAGO DISTRICT GOLFER | JUNE 2021
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