The Charles R. Drew Charter School boys golf team made history in May when it became the first all-black high school team — and the first team from the Atlanta public school system — to win the Georgia state championship. - NBCBLK
“When it comes to college, when it comes to business, investing, like a lot of the things I want to do outside of golf, I've met people that do those things while playing golf,” he said.The Drew Charter School team gathered together again in October to receive their championship rings in a ceremony aptly named after Calvin Peete, the most successful African American golfer on the PGA tour until Tiger Woods.
Georgia was a major battleground in the fight for equality in golf going back to the Jim Crow era. One of the first cases of court-ordered desegregation in American history wasin 1955, in which the Supreme Court ordered the integration of the city’s public golf courses. “Everyone's talking in 1997, saying the floodgates are going to open and the PGA Tour will be all black and all these things,” he said. “What we've seen, of course, is that that's totally not true. There’s fewer black golfers today than there were before Tiger.”
“If we look at golf on the professional level, be it in the PGA or LPGA, I think we would see a common thread: that many of these folks were introduced to the game of golf at a very young age,” Beatty said. “Simply by comparison, most African American children don't have that same opportunity.” “Golf is a unique sport,” he said. “Young people don't play golf because they see it in movies. Young people get into golf through connections, because their friends are playing or, even more importantly, because their family is playing. And that's very unique in the world of American sport.”
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