Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When an old eye ailment forced him to drop out of his own golf tournament, the Bob Hope Desert Classic in Palm Springs, Calif., the comedian had a substitute at the ready: that former song-and-dance man, Senator George Murphy. Said Hope of his replacement: "He's certainly made his mark on the Senate floor. He forgot to take his tap shoes...
...first-round lead with five birdies and an eagle in one six-hole spree, won the season's opening tournament on the first hole of a sudden-death play-off against, ironically, South Africa's Harold Henning. Thus Sifford, long the victim of the apartheid in pro golf, picked up $20,000 and became, however briefly, the first Negro to lead the money winners on the pro tour...
...P.G.A. has good reason to ignore this aspect of Sifford's victory. Golf, owing in large part to the hidebound P.G.A., was for years one of the most segregated major sports in the U.S. The P.G.A. waited until 1961, a full ten years after most other pro sports were fully integrated, before it removed the Caucasian-only clause from its membership requirements. Even now, the majority of blacks seen on the pro circuit are still the caddies. Of the 300 pros on last year's tour, only six were Negro. This season there are eleven, and though such...
Moonlighting Players. It is not that they lack the talent to play golf, just the opportunity. As Sifford says: "White people have been playing golf for a hundred goddam years, man. Negroes have had a tough enough time just getting into school, let alone playing golf...
...Mississippi," explains Pete Brown, 34, who earned $8,356 on the tour last season, "we weren't allowed to play golf, but me and some of the other Negro caddies used to scrape up a few clubs and sneak onto the course at dawn or even late at night." If nothing else, adds George Thorpe, 26, a second-year pro from Roxboro, N.C., "playing by moonlight sure teaches you how to keep the ball on the fairway...