Zebulon Barnes received a full scholarship to Lincoln University to play golf. Barnes started playing golf at a young age but took a seven-year hiatus from the sport. “I started playing tournaments when I was six,” Barnes said. “It’s been one heck of a journey.”
“We’re celebrating the rejuvenation of Maggie Hathaway Golf Course,” said Fred Terrell, vice chairman of investment banking at Wells Fargo & Company.
Howard stand-out golfer Marley Franklin has several achievements throughout her years in high school and college.
The 10th annual MB Invitational partnered with the organization Driving Out Cancer (DOC) to host a Pro-Am golf tournament and cancer fundraiser at the Huntington Club in Huntington Beach.
Super Bowl 50 champion and three-time Pro Bowler T.J. Ward will host the Champions in the Green celebrity golf tournament on May 21 at the Blackhawk Country Club in Blackhawk, CA. The tournament will benefit the WardBoy Project, a non-profit organization Ward started with his brother Terron.
Palos Verdes Peninsula junior Alysa Davis is a veteran golfer who helped her high school golf team reach the CIF Southern Section Regional playoffs this past season.
The Tee Divas and Tee Dudes (TDTD) Golf Club celebrated Black Golf History with their third annual Celebration Brunch. The youth golfers not only honored golf pioneers like Charlie Sifford but also showed their gratitude towards TDTD and the Southern California Golf Association (SCGA) for providing them with opportunities.
On Thursday, November 2, elected officials, the Los Angeles County Department of Parks & Recreation, American Golf and Fore Youth Golf Foundation signed an agreement to upgrade the Maggie Hathaway Golf Course in South Los Angeles.
Graduating senior Kourey Patterson is continuing his golf career at Alabama A&M University. He helped the Palisades Charter High School boys golf team win CIF City Section Championships in 2021 and 2022.
St. Monica senior Nayani Lewis will be attending the University of Maryland Eastern Shore on a golf scholarship in the fall. She noted how she connected well with the women’s golf head coach Tiana Jones.
Byrd’s third APGA Tour win comes with $30,000 winner’s prize and PGA TOUR exemption into The Honda Classic
View Park senior Kamora King began playing rugby during her senior year. During that time, she learned how to play in several different positions. King recalled her first game as being “intense.”
As a young teen, Worthington met woods during a First Tee and Woods Foundation event. Woods helped the young man with his swing and provided the kind of confidence that helped Worthington qualify to play for the PGA Championship in 2016.
James Reede III wants to leave a legacy and has the work ethic to do so. He manages pharmacies for his day job and spends his weekday afternoons working on his professional golfing career.
Intersport, in collaboration with Rocket Mortgage, Trion Solutions, Dow, The Children’s Foundation and Sommer Woods (co-founder of Woods and Watts Effect), announced the launch of a new national golf event: ‘THE JOHN SHIPPEN’ to identify historical barriers and expand Black representation in the sport of golf. The event will be held at Detroit Golf Club from June 27 to June 28, with a one-hour TV special about THE JOHN SHIPPEN airing on CBS leading into final-round coverage of the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Sunday, July 4. The event, designed to showcase Black collegiate and professional golfers, is named after John