In 1975, Lee Elder became the first Black man to play in the Masters. (The club would not admit its first Black member until 1990.) “It surprised me,” Jackson recalled. “He was the last ...

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 ...

Dent rose from caddying at Augusta National and the Masters to becoming a successful pro and prodigious hitter. He helped ...

Jim Dent, one of the PGA Tour's longest hitters and one of the top Black golfers of his generation, died at age 85.

In the late 1960s, after Charlie Sifford integrated the PGA Tour but before the Masters had seen a black player in its field, there weren't many white voices antagonizing for integration inside ...

CARL JACKSON knows Augusta like no one else. The legendary caddie, who carried bags at Augusta National a record 54 times, helped Ben Crenshaw win the fabled green jacket twice. Those incredible ...