Nashid Madyun and Queena Thompson at the 2017 Players Championship
For Nashid Madyun and Queena Thompson attended their first PGA event. With the strongest field and largest purse, The Players Championship is not a bad professional tournament to make as your rookie debut.
The friends both enjoy golf. Nashid is from Tallahassee, Fla., by way of Helena, Ark. and he relocated to the sunshine in 2015. Queena is from Orlando Florida and is attending Florida A&M University’s law school.
Nashid is a History and African American Art Professor at Florida A&M University. He’s been teaching there for the last 2-years. He also shares double duty as the Director of the Black Archives on campus. Florida A&M has a pretty decent golf team in the MEAC conference.
Queena is in her 3rd year as a Law Student, majoring in Juvenile Justice. Says she’s starting to take a great interest in the game hanging out with her 18 handicap friend.
—John Perry, reporting for AAGD. John Perry is a freelance writer, poet and active golfer with a passion for calling shots like he sees them and, then, telling it like it is. He resides in Orlando, Florida.
