Women’s Round

The Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) held its annual golf championship at the Lake View Course at Calloway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Ga., on April 26-27, 2016, in great pre-summer like conditions…

Winner Dorothy Johnson (front and center) She’s done it again, becoming, for the 7th time, the Club Champ of the Cypress Lakes Ladies Club.  Dorothy Johnson, a well-seasoned Golf Channel…

Evette Booker, a talented sophomore golfer who hails from Detroit, Michigan, made her hometown proud by performing extremely well last week at the G-MAC Championships, held in Liberty Township, Ohio.  Her…

You’re a straight-A graduate of an elite business school, with references, connections and experience for days. You’re young, gifted and Black, and ready to put in work. So, how come…

Two New Sites will Host the 2016 LPGA Leadership Academies After a successful pilot program in 2015, AXA Financial Group is sponsoring two LPGA Leadership Academies! Forty, special young women,…

The genesis of the Wake-Robin Golf Club can be told through members like Elizabeth McNeal. McNeal, 98, grew up amid seven siblings in Grindstone, Pennsylvania, where her father worked as…

Speak Live Nation host Cedric Nettles talked with LPGA golfer Shasta Averyhardt about her accomplishments in the sport.  As the 4th African American woman ever to enter the LPGA Tour, Averyhardt…

FAR HILLS, N.J. – The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announces Chicago Golf Club, in Wheaton, Ill., and Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club, in Southern Pines, N.C., as…

As narcissistic as it may sound, pampering oneself is the ultimate pleasure in self-gratification.  But, notwithstanding the temptations to resist, one such lady golfer did exactly this.  As a personal Christmas gift to herself Marguerite Acker-West designed and built her very own ‘Woman Cave’. …

Cheyenne Woods has a famous face to go with that famous name: She’s been called one of the “Most Beautiful Women in Golf” by Golf.com, among others. She has a…

Posted by AFRICANAMERICANGOLFERSDIGEST on DECEMBER 2, 2015 Selina Johnson is the Founder/President /CEO of the Hollywood Golf Institute. She is a native Detroiter and mother of two, Jamila & Norris.  Johnson motivates youth…

On Saturday, November 14, 2015, the Women of Color Golf (WOCG) and the Alpha Phi Alpha (GZL) Foundation sponsored a beginner golf clinic for  the Alpha Phi Alpha, Men of Tomorrow…