He's often described as the first black golfer with a future.

Peete said the proof was the diminishing number of top black golfers.

As a black professional golfer, I have to defy them.

The best black golfer on the Tour said that if some of his white colleagues were black they wouldn't be saying this.

At 17, Sifford left Charlotte and began competing with the best black golfers of his day.

Bland points to the history of helping black golfers with good reason.

A black golfer did not play in the Masters until 1975.

Although not a major championship, this is the most significant tour victory to this date by a black golfer.

The black golfer said I should be tracking down a 15-year-old phenom who would soon overwhelm the game.

The number of black golfers here has doubled in recent years, but blacks still make up less than 10 percent of the club's members.