Category: Feature Articles

Heeeeeee’ssssssss  Baaaaaaaaakkkkkkk! by Herschel Caldwell It was at the 1999 Bay Hill Invitational that Tiger Woods and Steve Williams first worked together. Woods wound up cashing a 54th-place check that week, and it would be his worst finish at Arnold Palmer’s event.

Will he be the  first African-American to seriously follow Tiger on the PGA Tour? We think so. by Herschel Caldwell LOS ANGELES -On the clubhouse balcony at Riviera, high enough to see the Pacific Ocean over the tops of eucalyptus trees that frame fairways, Vincent Johnson hardly looked like a player about to make his PGA Tour debut. For one thing, he was dressed smartly in a dark suit and tie. He also stood out because of the color of his skin. In the dozen years since Tiger Woods joined the PGA Tour, the number of players with African-American heritage… Read More »

By Herschel Caldwell SANTA ANA, CA – January 26, 2009 – Hard work and dedication paid off for Pat Perez as he earned his first PGA TOUR victory at the 50th Bob Hope Classic. Perez has been working with Coach Joey D, one of the elite biomechanics, strength and conditioning coaches on the PGA Tour and using GolfGym training products for the past year as part of his golf fitness program.

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (Dec. 21) – Vijay Singh birdied the last hole Sunday to edge Steve Stricker by one shot and win the $5.75 million Chevron World Challenge Presented by Bank of America at Sherwood Country Club. Singh closed with his second consecutive round of 67 to claim the $1.35 million winner’s check and the tournament trophy given to him by host Tiger Woods.  Singh, 45, also won the PGA TOUR’s Fed Ex Cup and ended the year on a high note. “I don’t want the year to end, I can tell you that,” Singh said.

By Herschel Caldwell Anthony Kim and Camilo Villegas (kuh-MIHL’-oh vih-JAY’-guhs) are the latest of a half-dozen U.S. tour players who have decided to take up joint membership in Europe for the 2009 season. Kim, a 23-year-old American whose two PGA Tour victories helped propel him to Number 8 in the world rankings, paid the $3,280 membership fee that makes him eligible for the season-ending $10 million “Race to Dubai” for the top 60 players and the additional $10 million bonus pool. Villegas, a 26-year-old from Colombia, who won the final two playoff events in the FedEx Cup on the PGA… Read More »

The only African American “in the sterling field of Senior PGA Tour players…” at this year’s U.S. Senior Open. Colorado Springs, Colorado, July 30, 2008 -2008 represents a year of “first” in many areas of American life. For the first time in American history has a person of color as the presumptive Democratic Candidate for president of the United States.. Tiger Woods has already won the country’s greatest golf championship, the U.S. Open, and there is a very real possibility that another person of color could win the U.S. Senior Open in this “Year of Firsts.” We thought it appropriate… Read More »

Minority Golf & Sports Magazine will present a series of features detailing the historic accomplishments of golfers of color in the United States over the past one hundred years and beyond on the pages of minoritygolfmag.com. Additionally, we will feature a special section on the past decade of Tiger Woods. This series beginning today features eighteen articles produced by the Philadelphia Daily News. The series will be presented over the next several months and will conclude with Tiger’s thirteenth major title, the 2007 PGA Championship Redefiining the “perfect 10” – part two By Mike Kern, Philadelphia Daily News (Part one… Read More »

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) -Lorena Ochoa, the Mexican star who once struggled in the majors, now is making them look easy.