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Call me a traditionalist. Call me a stickler for pageantry and lore. Or call me a corny sap. Whatever you do, just don’t call ...
They would often form special bonds with the golfers that lasted decades. Carl Jackson caddied for Ben Crenshaw dozens of ...
A 25-foot golf tee was unveiled this week as a monumental symbol of the golf caddies who supported and guided champions ...
The Black artist painted a 20-foot, 1,000-pound mural golf tee structure commemorating Black caddies in the game.
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Fifty years ago, when Lee Elder became the first Black golfer to qualify for the Masters, he wasn't much in a mood to discuss it. "I'm not talking," Elder told reporters on April 7 ...
They had met years earlier on the driving range at a golf tournament in Washington D.C. He was Lee Elder, the best player on the all-Black United Golf Association tour and she was an amateur with ...
“For the color barrier in golf to stand that long, to finally see it fall at Augusta, was something I was happy to be a part of,” Elder said. Notable Black golfers before him, Charlie Sifford ...
Augusta National and Masters Chairman Fred Ridley's annual pre-tournament press conference had no bombshells, but plenty of opinion on lightning-rod topics in golf, including LIV and slow play. Read ...
Tiger Woods was playing golf with Augusta National chairman Fred ... had been an affordable haven for Augusta's working-class and Black golfers. Woods was interested immediately, Ridley said ...