Cameron and Mike Pero: First Miami Father/Son Duo to Both Win MAC Golf Championship
5/26/2026 3:16:00 PM | Men's Golf
OXFORD, Ohio— When Cameron Pero made his final putt at this year's Mid-American Conference Men's Golf Championship, the celebration that followed carried a weight deeper than any single tournament could contain. It completed a circle more than three decades in the making, crowning the Pero family as the first father-and-son pair in Miami University Golf history to each claim a MAC Championship title.
Cameron, a senior for the RedHawks, was one of five Miami golfers who helped the program capture the MAC team title for the first time since 2015, ending the event in Zionsville, Ind., seven shots ahead of runner-up Northern Illinois with a team score of 880 (28 over par). Liam Nelson earned medalist honors at four over par, and all five Miami golfers finished in the top 20. For Cameron, a standout moment came in the second round, when he carded an impressive 69 — the kind of round that sets a tone and steadies a team in the thick of a championship chase.
Cameron's father, Mike Pero, wore the Red and White across three seasons from 1987 to 1989, earning All-MAC honors each year. In 1987, he was part of the Miami Golf team that won the Mid-American Conference Championship — the first title in what would become a record-setting run of six consecutive conference championships.
In the final competition of his collegiate career, Mike represented Miami at the NCAA Championships, posting what was then the best individual finish in program history: 13th place, just seven strokes behind a young medalist named Phil Mickelson.
Now, 37 years after his father helped launch a Miami Golf dynasty, Cameron has added his own chapter to the same story. Few athletes get to stand on the same ground their parent once stood on and achieve what they achieved, and fewer still do it as part of making history.
Miami's MAC Championship victory this spring also punched the program's ticket to the NCAA Bryan Regional, where the RedHawks competed before seeing their season come to a close. But the journey itself, highlighted by Cameron's steady second-round 69 and the team's gritty 54-hole performance in Indiana, is one the program will point to as the standard for years to come.
For the Pero family, it's something more personal: proof that greatness, like a well-grooved swing and a love for competition, can be passed down.
Cameron, a senior for the RedHawks, was one of five Miami golfers who helped the program capture the MAC team title for the first time since 2015, ending the event in Zionsville, Ind., seven shots ahead of runner-up Northern Illinois with a team score of 880 (28 over par). Liam Nelson earned medalist honors at four over par, and all five Miami golfers finished in the top 20. For Cameron, a standout moment came in the second round, when he carded an impressive 69 — the kind of round that sets a tone and steadies a team in the thick of a championship chase.
Cameron's father, Mike Pero, wore the Red and White across three seasons from 1987 to 1989, earning All-MAC honors each year. In 1987, he was part of the Miami Golf team that won the Mid-American Conference Championship — the first title in what would become a record-setting run of six consecutive conference championships.
In the final competition of his collegiate career, Mike represented Miami at the NCAA Championships, posting what was then the best individual finish in program history: 13th place, just seven strokes behind a young medalist named Phil Mickelson.
Now, 37 years after his father helped launch a Miami Golf dynasty, Cameron has added his own chapter to the same story. Few athletes get to stand on the same ground their parent once stood on and achieve what they achieved, and fewer still do it as part of making history.
Miami's MAC Championship victory this spring also punched the program's ticket to the NCAA Bryan Regional, where the RedHawks competed before seeing their season come to a close. But the journey itself, highlighted by Cameron's steady second-round 69 and the team's gritty 54-hole performance in Indiana, is one the program will point to as the standard for years to come.
For the Pero family, it's something more personal: proof that greatness, like a well-grooved swing and a love for competition, can be passed down.
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