The concept of the National Minority College Golf Championship was conceived at a committee meeting in Jackson, Mississippi following a Jackson State Golf Tournament in November, 1986. NMCGSF was chartered in 1987 to conduct the first National Minority College Golf Championship Tournament.

Since 1987, the NMCGSF has operated the annual Minority College Golf Championship Tournament and the NMCGSF Celebrity Tournament in order to generate funds for the competing schools. The tournament was originally held in Cleveland, Ohio and eventually relocated in 1998 to the PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Dollars raised are used to promote the viability of golf programs at predominantly minority colleges by providing technical assistance and grants to golf programs, players and students. Unique and exciting, the tournament is the only sports event in the U.S. where historically Black colleges compete against each other for a national title. With this single event, NMCGSF opens educational opportunities, and athletic opportunities, to a population that traditionally had limited access to both.