Rock Pioneer Little Richard arrives at the Music City Walk of Fame Induction (Nov. 2008)
May 9, 2020
NASHVILLE (AP) — Little Richard, one of the chief architects of rock ‘n’ roll whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing Black R&B to white America, died Saturday, May 9, after battling bone cancer. He was 87.
Pastor Bill Minson, a close friend of Little Richard’s, told The Associated Press that Little Richard died Saturday morning. His son, Danny Jones Penniman, also confirmed his father’s death, which was first reported by Rolling Stone.
Bill Sobel, Little Richard’s attorney for more than three decades, told the AP in an email that the musician died at a family home in Tullahoma, Tenn.
“He was not only an iconic and legendary musician, but he was also a kind, empathetic and insightful human being,” Sobel said.
Little Richard was one of rock ‘n’ roll’s founding fathers who helped shatter the color line on the music charts, joining Chuck Berry and Fats Domino in taking what was once called “race music” into the mainstream. Richard’s hyperkinetic piano playing, coupled with his howling vocals and hairdo, made him an implausible sensation — a gay, black man celebrated across America during the buttoned-down Eisenhower era.
He sold more than 30 million records worldwide, and his influence on other musicians was equally staggering, from The Beatles and Otis Redding to Creedence Clearwater Revival and David Bowie. In his personal life, he wavered between raunch and religion, alternately embracing the Good Book and outrageous behavior and looks — mascara-lined eyes, pencil-thin mustache and glittery suits.
“Little Richard? That’s rock ‘n’ roll,” Neil Young, who heard Richard’s riffs on the radio in Canada, told biographer Jimmy McDonough. “Little Richard was great on every record.”
Founding Father of Rock Little Richard Broke Musical Barriers
Little Richard left his house after his father accused him of being gay. While friends and family called him “Lil’ Richard” because of his petite stature, it wasn’t until he was 17 that he was given his stage name, Little Richard, by musician and singer Buster Brown. In 1995, Little Richard was proud of his sexuality, saying in an interview with Penthouse, “I’ve been gay all my life, and I know God is a God of love, not of hate.”
It was 1956 when his classic “Tutti Frutti” landed like a hand grenade in the Top 40, exploding from radios and off turntables across the country. It was highlighted by Richard’s memorable call of “wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom.”
A string of hits followed, providing the foundation of rock music “Lucille,” “Keep A Knockin’,” “Long Tall Sally,” “Good Golly Miss Molly.” More than 40 years after the latter charted, Bruce Springsteen was still performing “Good Golly Miss Molly” live.
The Beatles’ Paul McCartney imitated Richard’s signature yelps — perhaps most notably in the “Wooooo!” from the hit “She Loves You.” Ex-bandmate John Lennon covered Richard’s “Rip It Up” and “Ready Teddy” on the 1975 Rock and Roll album.
When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened in 1986, he was among the charter members with Elvis Presley, Berry, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Cooke and others.
“It is with a heavy heart that I ask for prayers for the family of my lifelong friend and fellow rocker Little Richard,” said Lewis, 84, in a statement provided by his publicist. “He will live on always in my heart with his amazing talent and his friendship! He was one of a kind and I will miss him dearly. God bless his family and fans.”
Little Richard was known for his flamboyant onstage persona and dynamic piano playing. In 1995, Little Richard was proud of his sexuality, saying in an interview with Penthouse, “I’ve been gay all my life, and I know God is a God of love, not of hate.”
Mick Jagger called Little Richard “the biggest inspiration of my early teens” in a social media post Saturday.
“His music still has the same raw electric energy when you play it now as it did when it first shot through the music scene in the mid 50’s,” Jagger wrote. “When we were on tour with him I would watch his moves every night and learn from him how to entertain and involve the audience and he was always so generous with advice to me. He contributed so much to popular music. I will miss you Richard, God bless.”
Few were quicker to acknowledge Little Richard’s seminal role than Richard himself. The flamboyant singer claimed that he paved the way for Presley, provided Jagger with his stage moves and conducted vocal lessons for McCartney.
“I am the architect of rock ‘n’ roll!” Little Richard crowed at the 1988 Grammy Awards as the crowd rose in a standing ovation. “I am the originator!”
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BY AAGD STAFF
May 8, 2020 — “Has anyone ever shown you from the Bible how you can be sure you are on your way to heaven?” This is the question that visitors see when they open up the homepage of the Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship church. Based in Dallas, TX, Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship (OCBF) recently added a new asset to its listing of acquisitions: The Golf Club of Dallas.
Church Pastor Dr. Tony Evans oversees his flock of approximately 10,000 active members and 300 staff employees. Dr. Evans is one of the country’s most respected leaders in evangelical circles and provides a wide swath of community programs through its family care pregnancy center and a technology center located at 1808 W. Camp Wisdom Road.
Pastor Tony Evans with his late wife Lois Irene Evans.
Weekly Sunday morning worship services are streamed worldwide and parishioners can engage in ongoing prayer services and support groups including school-based mentoring, computer training, GED and literacy instruction, career development, parenting education, home-buying seminars, relationship series, and utilize the church’s credit union, and more. Dr. Tony’s YouTube channel has more than 172,000 subscribers, a podcast, and a radio broadcast which can be heard in over 145 countries worldwide.
Pastor Evans told NBCDFW.com that he, “Always felt the golf club was a special place.” In fact, for 13 years, in an act of faith, the 71-year-old pastor said he prayed about the property. Evans, worth an estimated $7 million dollars, lost his Guyanaian-born wife Lois Irene Evans (age 70) in December 2019, from a rare form of cancer. The couple raised two sons and two daughters, and their son Jonathan was recruited by the Dallas Cowboys.
Pastor Evans attended the Dallas Theological Seminary (an evangelical theological seminary in Dallas that is known for popularizing the theological system Dispensationalism), where he studied theology. Upon completion, the Baltimore (MD) native became the first African American to receive a doctorate in the subject. In 1976, Dr. Evans founded the Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, with 10 members meeting at his home. Afterward, he founded The Urban Alternative, which includes his TV and radio broadcasts of The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans.
Conversations and negotiations for the course began last year and Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship acquired The Golf Club of Dallas in a move that the nondenominational church’s leader and the club’s former owner say will be beneficial for the entire community. Located at 2200 West Red Bird Lane, just 10 minutes for downtown Dallas, the classic Perry Maxwell design was a former host of the PGA Tour‘s Dallas Open (now the AT&T Byron Nelson Classic, played in McKinney, TX) and Senior PGA Reunion Pro-Am Classic. In 1957, a 45-year-old Sam Snead shot the lowest recorded round (at the time) -60- at the Dallas Open.
Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship 3,284-seat worship center. As governor, Bush was the featured speaker at Evans’s fiftieth birthday celebration. As president, he spoke at the dedication of the church’s enormous youth and education center. And when Bush addressed the 2008 National Religious Broadcasters convention, he singled out Evans as a friend. One of OCBF’s social service programs received its first large grant (about $500,000) from the president’s faith-based initiatives.
It was established in 1953 and originally named the Oak Cliff Country Club, functioning as a semi-private club with a large clubhouse equipped to offer a range of services for tournaments, dining occasions, events, driving range, golf shop, locker rooms, an Olympic size pool, and membership opportunities.
“I am very familiar with the golf course,” said Michael Cooper, Chair of the We Are Golf Diversity Taskforce. Cooper is also Tour Director of Tournament Operations for the Advocates Professional Golf Association (APGA), and recalled, “We played an Advocates event there a couple of years ago. Good track!”
Golf Club of Dallas
Director of golf, and former owner, Philip A. Bleakney, has been with the Golf Club of Dallas since 1993. That same year, he started a fundraiser for the NTPGA Junior Golf Foundation and raised $200,000 for the Charity. He currently serves as President of the Northern Texas PGA and says that he feels positive about the new leadership. In a personal letter that Bleakney wrote and sent to club members and patrons, he expressed in part:
“The Senior Pastor, Dr. Tony Evans, told me in one of our meetings that he founded the Church in 1976 with 10 people in his house. They now employ over 300 employees and have about 10,000 active members. They have tremendous outreach in the community and have an interest in approximately 200 acres in Oak Cliff, not including the golf course. After many phone conversations and several in person meetings, it was clear to me that Dr. Evans and Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship was a perfect group to own the Club. OCBF made it clear that they want to see the golf course remain intact and plan to work on making it the focal point of the community like it has been in the past.
“This was a win for not only our group and OCBF but also the immediate community and all the members and patrons that the course already serves. I have been very fortunate to work very closely with Dr. Evans and Mr. Gregory Smith, the Executive Business Manager, during this long process and I could not be more impressed with the entire team at OCBF. They are true professionals and it is very clear they just want the best for the Community and the Club.”
Golf Club of Dallas
With 18 beautiful holes, the par 70, 6719 yards course, with a 133 slope, and 72.7 rating, some strategists may wonder if the course could become part of the mega-million dollar PGA complex that is currently under construction just 30-minutes away in Frisco, TX. The short distance could be attractive for gaining additional facilities and/or revenue for PGA events in Tex.
Prior to purchasing the course, Pastor Evans told NCBDFW, “I would go to our education building, which overlooks the club, and I would pray,” Evans said. “And I would sit on the back steps and say, ‘Now Lord, if you can use this to advance your purposes for the well-being of this community from a Christian perspective, then bring it about at some point in the future.”
“I live in this community, raised my children in this community,” Evans said. “Our church is in the community and our ministries are for this community.” The Pastor’s church has been in Oak Cliff for more than 40 years and he is adamant that all decisions surrounding the golf course will keep community interest in mind. The best-selling author who has written over 100 books and studies has a strong record that supports his pledge. Throughout the years, OCBF has invested in the community through job training and placement, counseling and a host of other community needs.
Golf Club of Dallas
Pastors Evans is not the first Black minister to purchase a golf course. In 2007, Bishop Charles H. Ellis III, Senior Pastor of Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Michigan, with nearly 6,000 under his visionary leadership purchased the 120-acre New Rogell Golf Course which sat across from the church, making it at that time the only African American owned and operated 18-hole golf facility in the state of Michigan. Nationwide, at the time there were only six African American owned golf courses in the nation when the church bought it from Detroit for $2.5 million in 2007. The church closed the golf course in May 2013, saying the operation had never been profitable. Bishop Charles Ellis III said they had been spending up to $100,000 annually just to keep the course open. Abandoned, after being up for sale for 5 years, the City of Detroit plans to invest several million dollars into developing it into one of Detroit’s newest public parks.
Pastor Evans said the purchase of the Golf Club of Dallas is a continuation of the work his church has done for decades. “This acquisition is really a continuation of what we’ve being doing throughout the life of our ministry,” Former Dallas Cowboys player Pettis Norman, as a black man, said he joined the Golf Club of Dallas many years ago, in a tight 51-to-49 vote. The activist said to NBCDFW.com “It’s about making a positive influence. “Open up the system so that everybody, no matter what the color, has an opportunity to participate,” Norman calls Pastor Evans “a gem in the community,” and says that his leadership is needed and respected in Oak Cliff. “It’s about making things better for other folks,” Norman said. “That’s what this whole life is all about.”
Pastor Evans said it’s not just about ownership, but about impact. He said he’d like to preserve the historical significance and use of the golf course, and enhance it for the benefit of families. “We’re trusting God to do great things through it, attached to all the other things we’re doing spiritually, economically and socially in our community,” the pastor said.
Before the sale, the Golf Club of Dallas had several levels of membership, $300/month (General Golf Member), $200/month (Junior Golf), $200/month (Ladies’ Associate Member), $200/month (Non-Resident Member), $100/month (Social Member) and $545 (Pool Membership). It is uncertain if rates will remain the same.
Elijah Walker
May 9, 2020 —The pioneer of inner-city youth golf programs is the legendary Mr. Elijah Walker of Atlanta, Georgia. Every golf program was tailored after his accomplishments at John A. White Park Golf Course on Cascade Road. Mr. Walker developed the best group of young Black golfers in the world from barrels of rusted golf clubs, crates of worn golf balls, and five overgrown golf holes. One gentleman made history by dedicating his life to teaching inner-city youth the game of golf, creating college golf scholarships, developing well-rounded contributors to the world, and equipping them with life skills while battling opposition.
Elijah Walker instructed all of us to have a proper golf swing with a pose at the end. That pose exhibited a sense of pride and helped disguise errant golf shots at times, but the structure that Mr. Walker taught created more good golf shots than bad. Every day was preparation for local Atlanta Junior Golf Association tournaments by hitting crates of balls into an open field, manually retrieving them, and hitting them again. This was followed by 5-hole rounds of golf where the grass on the greens was higher than the fairways that our competition practiced on.
Elijah Walker
Mr. Walker valued exposure so all of us visited and followed our favorite professional golfers such as Calvin Peete at the yearly Coca Cola Golf Classic held in Atlanta. In turn, Peete, a good friend of Walker’s, would give annual clinics at John A. White Park. Due to local success and parent involvement, Mr. Walker began taking us to national golf tournaments.
Nationally, Elijah Walker’s students dominated the Midwest District golf tournament which caught the attention of Bill Dickey, an advocate for minority college golf scholarships. At this point, there was a spike in golf teams at minority schools because there was talent to fill the availability.
The dreams and goals that Walker envisioned kept going. Elijah Walker expanded to international golf tournaments by connecting with the late Charlie DeLuca of Miami, Florida, at the Doral Publix Junior Golf Classic, enabling his students to compete against the best in the world. Every Christmas, Mr. Walker made it his duty to register and personally drive young golfers from Atlanta to Miami for this experience. Ultimately, Walker was the catalyst for hundreds of inner-city youth golfers ranking in high school and receiving college golf scholarships.
Years later, all of Elijah Walker’s students are grateful. The comradery, golf skills, and life skills built at John A. White Golf Course are engrained in our souls and have helped us to become better people. Mr. Walker instilled a connection in us that we will have for life. Elijah Walker is survived by his daughter, Tamara, son, Travis, and grandkids.
May 7, 2020 — The Metro New York Chapter of the National Black MBA Association (NYBLACKMBA) held its free weekly webinar on May 4, and presented guest speaker James “Jim” Beatty, Executive Editor, African American Golfer’s Digest. Beatty is also the Founder of NCS International, an Omaha, Nebraska-based company that providers of an array of economic development services. Beatty also serves on the WE ARE GOLF Diversity Task Force and recently launched Jim Beatty Golf Ventures, a golf promotion and management company.
Beatty shares his early involvement in golf and talks on the economic impact of the $84 billion industry that accompanies the game.
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The webinar was hosted by Norville Barrington, Director, Business Development, NYBLACKMBA and presented on Instagram Live @NYBMBA and ZOOM.
Keith Pelley, CEO of the European Tour
May 7, 2020 —The European Tour is in deep trouble, and it appears that the PGA Tour will come riding to the rescue. But at a price.
Since March, according to MorningRead.com, the European Tour has been canceling tournaments because of the coronavirus pandemic. In all, 16 events have been postponed or canceled, including the first scrubbing of the British Open since World War II. The tour has set July 30 as a date to resume play, at the Betfred British Masters.
Tour chief executive Keith Pelley is said to be working frantically to put together a schedule of 26 events to salvage a season, which would end in November at the DP World Tour Championship, the conclusion of the season-long Race to Dubai.
However, according to multiple published reports, the coronavirus pandemic will affect the European Tour much more deeply than originally thought. Pelley circulated a memo to players in April.
“Our tour has enjoyed a significant period of growth in recent years, in terms of prize funds, playing opportunities and the overall standard of our events, as well as our broadcast product,” he said. “The impact of the coronavirus has stopped this rapid momentum in its tracks, and it will, in fact, require us to reassess many elements. You should therefore be prepared that when we do resume playing, the schedule and the infrastructure of tournaments could look radically different from what you have been used to. Many of the things you have become accustomed to, such as top-class players’ lounges or courtesy car services, will most likely assume a different appearance, if indeed they are present at all.
“Prize funds will also most likely be different. … The reality is, the pandemic is going to have a profound impact on the tour financially, as well as many of our partners, both in sponsorship and broadcast areas.”
Neither Pelley nor PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has been quoted for publication on the subject. But according to reports, both men are talking daily about forging some sort of arrangement – perhaps a partnership or an outright merger – in which the European Tour would receive at the very least significant financial help to remain afloat and viable. At most, it is speculated that the Euro Tour would become a subsidiary of the PGA Tour. If anything has been decided, it has not been made public.
While talks between Monahan and Pelley perhaps were begun out of the European Tour’s financial necessity, it also appears to be an effort to fend off organizers of the proposed Premier Golf League. The PGL has been floated by backers with deep pockets as an alternative global tour, consisting of 18 worldwide events featuring 48 of the game’s elite players. The proposed tour would start in 2022, with a total purse of $240 million.
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But what’s the potential for such a partnership?
St Andrews, Scotland (May 6, 2020)
The 2020 Women’s Amateur Latin America Championship presented by The R&A and the ANNIKA Foundation has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The inaugural event was due to take place in Argentina from 3-6 September 2020 at Pilar Golf in Buenos Aires but will now be played from 2-5 September 2021 at the same venue.
The championship is being introduced to support the growth and development of amateur golf for women and girls in the region and will provide the winner with exemptions into the AIG Women’s British Open and The Women’s Amateur Championship.
Mark Lawrie, Director – Latin America and the Caribbean at The R&A, said, “The safety of players and officials is our utmost priority and with so much uncertainty as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic we decided it would not be appropriate to stage the championship this year.
“I would like to thank Pilar Golf for its support and understanding in making this decision and we will now look forward to working with the club and the ANNIKA Foundation to stage the championship for the region’s top women’s amateur golfers next year.”
Annika Sorenstam said, “We were excited to launch this special event in September but look forward to an even better event in 2021. I cherish the work we have accomplished with The R&A in Latin America and look forward to hosting the region’s top talent next year.”
BY AAGD STAFF
May 5, 2020 — UPDATE on the case involving The Grandview Five:
“Today, the ladies all received a letter from the first woman president of the Professional Golf Association of America, Suzy Whaley,” says the Facebook post by Myneca Ojo, one of the five women involved in a 2018 golf course incident of alleged discrimination. The lawsuit alleges that an owner told a member of their fivesome group that they weren’t keeping pace, and treated them differently than other players on the course, who the lawsuit says were Caucasian and male.
In the May 5, 2020 post by Ojo (shown below) PGA President Suzy Whaley states “Your collective courage to stand up to the injustice inflicted by a facility owner has exposed that our industry, like society, still has its flaws.” Whaley continues, “All who embrace the game of golf must not be silent and you all have been a beacon for change.”
Suzy Whaley was elected the first female president of the PGA of America in November 2018 and became the 41st PGA president.
An investigation by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission found that the women had probable cause that they were “profiled, harassed, evicted and subjected to different terms and conditions of service because of their protected classes,” and granted them the right to sue, according to the lawsuit.
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Holding their “Antarctica Nubian Open” flag (L-R) Dr. Joe Hackworth, Dr. Clyde Henderson, Mrs. Lana Hackworth, and Dr. Charles Murray Johnson.
By Clyde E. Henderson, MD, FAAOS, FHPMD (retired)
ANTARCTICA! WHY?
This is the question that this golf travel fanatic was asked repetitively as I announced my desire to visit the southernmost part of this earth. After I had been blessed to play golf in every state in America my attention turned to my next golf bucket list, every continent! My remaining three were South America, Asia, and Antarctica. Fortunately, South America is the closest continent to Antarctica, so I could knock off two destinations in one trip!
My research revealed that there are no permanent golf courses on Antarctica, even though it is the size of the USA and Mexico, combined. Why would there be when there are only 1,200 researchers in the cold harsh winter and about 5,000 in the summer? These researchers hail from the USA and up to six other countries. They break up the monotony of working on the ice-covered terrain by “playing” golf around their huts and buildings, and by playing Frisbee (disc) golf, where players throw at a target using rules similar to golf. So, with this information in hand, it was clear that my traveling companions and I would have to play our own version of Antarctica Golf. Since we have the utmost respect for the pristine and nearly unspoiled nature of Antarctica, it was decided that we would leave nothing behind, not even biodegradable golf balls.
Mrs. Lana Hackworth on Nubian Open course.
GOLFING AROUND THE WORLD
My travel experiences around the world have revealed to me that there is a paucity of people of color, especially with golf travel. With that said, that reality is even more of a reason for us to go. It was discovered that George W. Gibbs, Jr., (1916-2000) a US Navy sailor, was the first African American to set foot on the continent of Antarctica, on January 14, 1940. On the shoulders of a Black pioneer we travel!
Understanding that the wintertime temperatures can be -100F, summer is the time to visit Antarctica. Antarctica only has two seasons: summer and winter. Because it’s located in the southern hemisphere, Antarctica’s summer is from October to February. During this time, the sun is almost always in the sky. The demand for travel to “The White Continent” is surprisingly high, so we had to wait almost two years to travel. That gave us time to maximize fitness, obtain proper attire and photography equipment, and of course, organize the “golf”.
Nubian Open organizer Dr. Clyde Henderson sets up his shot.
Our expedition with National Geographic began with an overnight flight from Atlanta to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Upon arrival, we dropped our bags off at the hotel and headed off to the golf course. After 18 holes at Buenos Aires Golf Club, one of the Top 10 Best Golf Courses in Argentina, according to Trip Advisor, golf on South America, done!
We spent our next two days touring Buenos Aires before flying to Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world. While on the Ushuaia city tour, before boarding the ice-class ship, we took note as our tour bus passed Ushuaia Golf Club, a leading 9-hole golf course in Ushuaia.
Before experiencing the full utility of the ice-class vessel, the Drake Passage had to be crossed. It took nearly two days to traverse this segment of the Southern Ocean known for its strong waves and winds. It is the “Gateway to Antarctica.” To anyone venturing here, by sea. I recommend bringing your motion sickness medication and holding on to the ropes inside of the ship while walking around decks during the day. Amazingly, there was an abundance of sea birds following the ship, even though we were hundreds of miles from land. Among these were majestic Albatross, with wingspans of 12 feet, and giant petrels with wingspans of 7 feet.
Dr. Clyde Henderson created a special 2020 Antarctica Nubian Open logoed golf ball to commemorate the amazing voyage.
The first landfall we encountered was Penguin Island in the South Shetland Island chain. Thousands of penguins and a variety of other birds were glorious to see and walk amongst after getting to land on our 12 passenger Zodiac boats.
Back at sea for a continuation of the voyage to the Antarctica Peninsula, our ship Captain emphasized that we were on an expedition and not a cruise, so we would follow the weather and not be close to the usual waterway paths of other ships. We were headed for the Eastern side of the Antarctica peninsula, into not well-charted areas. On this route, there were projected to be fewer clouds. As we passed towering glaciers and dodged huge icebergs, our destination was Danger Island and Ambush Bay! Upon arrival, tens of thousands of penguins greeted us!
LANDING ON ANTARCTICA
The next day we were projected to land on the Antarctica continent at Brown Bluff. Our “golf outing” had been cleared by the expedition leader and naturalists. Unfortunately, there was too much ice for the Zodiacs to land, so we were restricted to water cruises along with enjoying viewing fabulous penguins “porpoising” out of the water and four penguins actually swam/flew into our Zodiac. We also witnessed leopard seals voraciously feeding on penguins, seeing humpback and killer whales surfacing, and sea birds nesting, as well as their feeding on the leopard seal discarded penguin scraps—nothing goes to waste in nature. Absolutely awesome sights to see!
Being golfers “we didn’t come this far to lay up,” so the ice was not going to stop us either. We returned to the ship, which remained anchored while the remaining passengers went on the Zodiacs to enjoy the environs of Brown Bluff. My foursome broke out the designated iridescent golf ball, putting cups, and the collapsible putter and conducted the “2020 Antarctica Nubian Open” replete with a black, red, and green banner. After playing our golf on the upper deck of the ship, we celebrated with a champagne dinner and distribution of logoed golf balls.
(L-R) Enjoying an onboard champagne toast is Dr. Joe Hackworth, Mrs. Lana Hackworth, Dr. Clyde Henderson, Dr. Charles M. Johnson.
We continued our expedition experiencing that every day was better than the one before. When we landed on the Antarctica islands, we walked between thousands of penguins of different species. A 6:30am wakeup call from the expedition leader awakened us, as we cruised amongst humpback whales feeding, breaching, and flapping. Kayaking amongst icebergs and Zodiac touring of sea ice fields, so close to resting seals that we could see them breathing, was incredibly memorable!
On the day after the 80thanniversary of our courageous Brother George Gibbs’ landing on Antarctica, our band of determined golfers landed at the continent’s Pilot Point where our trusted putter was assembled, used, and our Nubian Open banner was planted, albeit temporarily!
The trip back across the Drake Passage was bumpier than our first go-over, so much so that both our Captain and Expedition Leader were thrown out of their beds on this nearly 3-day return trip. We finally saw land at Cape Horn, the northern boundary of the Drake Passage where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Pacific. It truly was quite ere seeing the monument to lost sailors at this windy southernmost tip of South America.
Yes, golfers will do just about anything to play our game!
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May 4, 2020
(DALLAS, TX) The Elite Ladies Golf League, (ELGA) announces its newest Advisory Board Member, Debert Cook, founder and publisher of the African American Golfer’s Digest. To pursue its mission, the Elite Ladies Golf League expanded its membership to various cities and states to include Youngstown, Cleveland, and Columbus, Ohio; along with Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Texas. It also enables the members to maintain and continue their involvement in golf with the league if relocation becomes necessary.
Debert Cook, CMP
“Debert Cook has been a longtime supporter of the Elite Ladies Golf League (formerly Ebony Ladies Golf League) since she first published an article about the Ebony Ladies Golf League, OH back in 2005,” says Brunilda Turner, president. “Please welcome her to our Elite Ladies Golf League family!
Ms. Cook is a native of Youngstown, Ohio, and launched the African American Golfer’s Digest in 2003 to serve avid Black American golfers nationwide, and now, worldwide, as the only wholly African American woman-owned golf publication.
“I am delighted to be a part of such a wonderful organization that helps youth to grow and develop into productive citizens of our country,” said Ms. Cook from her New York City headquarters. “I have long admired the mission of the ELGL in accelerating the sport among youth and adults, and I look forward to being a part of that continued growth along with my fellow Advisory Board Members, Renee Powell, Maulana Dotch (PGA/LPGA) and Oneda Castillo (LPGA).”
Elite Ladies Golf League Mission:
- Provide a networking outlet for minority women
- Utilize golf for personal growth and career advancement
- Provide educational and mentoring programs to improve golfing skills
- Increase the knowledge, self-confidence and enjoyment of the game of golf
The Elite Ladies Golf League is headquartered in Youngstown, Ohio. The Club also operates its affiliate location in Dallas, TX, managed by Chairperson Kusana Turner and Co-Chairperson, Joselynn Hudson.
Download May 2020 Elite Ladies Golf League Newsletter
ELGA leadership includes:
Advisory Board Members
Kusana Turner
Chairperson
Joselynn Hudson
Co-Chairperson & Treasurer
Gay Banks
Historian
Vernita Rickett
Editor-in-chief
Brielle Richardson
Veronica Richardson
Social Media
Sandra Gladney
Advisory Board Member
Renee Powell
Maulana Dotch
LPGA/PGA
ELGL Consultant
Oneda Castillo
LPGA
ELGL Consultant
Debert Cook
Founder & Publisher of
African American Golfer’s Digest
ELGL Consultant
Brunilda Turner
CEO, Ebony Ladies Golf and Youth
Foundation
For more information, visit their website at http://www.eliteladiesgolf.org/ and their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/118751512153/about/ or call Brunilda Turner at 330-509-3093 or email [email protected]