Profiles

NEW YORK, NY (August 20, 2020) African American Golfer’s Digest, the nation’s oldest leading print and digital golf publication serving avid Black American golfers, is pleased to announce the appointment…

BY AAGD STAFF May 25, 2020 — It was Sunday, May 24, and a balmy 87 degrees on the grounds of the Durango Hills Golf Club in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The city had an…

BY AAGD STAFF (January 14, 2020) —Kathryn Magett McManus is as cheerful and bubbly as a golfer could be having recently returned from an October 2019 golf-scape journey to Cape…

By Michael Cooper  (December 1, 2019) I’m grateful to have been intimately engaged in golf, in one way or another, since I was 12-years-old.  Over the years, I’ve seen the…

BY AAGD STAFF (November 15, 2019)   Kelly Pierre, Founder & CEO of All Access Golf is now a Certified Coach with U.S. Kids Golf.  Pierre’s achievement will enable him to be listed…

(originally published in Deacon’s Lodge by RJ Smiley) October 12, 2019 He is a Minnesota golf icon! Ed Manderville single handily shattered the color barrier in Minnesota golf. On Memorial…

  BY AAGD STAFF (September 29, 2019) — When PGA Professional Rich Jones is not reading or spending time with his family in Long Island, NY, he’s more than likely…

DAVE COOK, THE OWNER OF AMERICANA FOODS, A MINORITY-OWNED BUSINESS, HAS PROVIDED FOOD SERVICE, CATERING AND CONCESSIONS AT MAJOR SPORTING EVENTS AROUND THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1994. “Golf has been…

(March 22, 2019) David Archie (left) and Glenn Davis (right) are native Floridians, born and raised in Tarpon Springs.  Tarpon Springs is the sister city to Palm Harbor, host of the…

BY AAGD STAFF (March 8, 2019)  Get to know Ron Newsome, the Human Resources Manager for GolfNow, a division of Golf Channel which is the internet’s largest online tee time…

BY AAGD STAFF (February 7, 2019) “Growing up in the streets of Maywood, Illinois provided many possibilities for consumption of life-ruining activities,” says scratch golfer Kevin Collins.  “I thank God…

  Lucius Bateman, the San Francisco Bay Area’s black golf professional who had coached so many outstanding players. Bateman passed away in 1975, but not before leaving a tremendous impression…