In the sport of golf, access and funding can be major hurdles to people of color, who make up the overwhelming minority of American golfers. Today's episode of The Times podcast is about golf's racial reckoning.
It takes skill to get a tiny golf ball into a faraway hole. It also takes money, connections, power, time and privilege — things historically denied to people of color. Data compiled by the PGA of America show that people of color make up about 18% of golfers in the United States. Black people: only 3%.
Pro basketball superstar Steph Curry has stepped up to change that, in partnership with Howard University, a historically Black institution. The school recently restarted a men’s and women’s golf team thanks to a donation from Curry that’ll fund it for six years. A few weeks ago, Howard’s golf program got a new pile of money at a fundraiser in California.Today we hear from Farrell Evans, a reporter and golfer who writes about the intersection of race and golf.
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