Jim Thorpe

The only African American “in the sterling field of Senior PGA Tour players…” at this year’s U.S. Senior Open.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, July 30, 2008 -2008 represents a year of “first” in many areas of American life. For the first time in American history has a person of color as the presumptive Democratic Candidate for president of the United States.. Tiger Woods has already won the country’s greatest golf championship, the U.S. Open, and there is a very real possibility that another person of color could win the U.S. Senior Open in this “Year of Firsts.”

We thought it appropriate to reprint a portion of writer/author J.C. Calloway’s “The Invisible Golfers,”where in 1997 (or whatever year) he describes the excellence and challenges of Jim Thorpe’s career on the PGA and Senior PGA Golf Tour.

(Editor: For a complete reprint of the original article and information on how to obtain a copy of the book, Invisible Golfers by J. C. Calloway – contact: editor@minoritygolfmag.com).

Excerpt from Chapter Four, The Invisible Golfer
By J.C. Calloway

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Tiger Woods, a Master-ful Decade

Minority Golf & Sports Magazine will present a series of features detailing the historic accomplishments of golfers of color in the United States over the past one hundred years and beyond on the pages of minoritygolfmag.com.

Additionally, we will feature a special section on the past decade of Tiger Woods. This series beginning today features eighteen articles produced by the Philadelphia Daily News. The series will be presented over the next several months and will conclude with Tiger’s thirteenth major title, the 2007 PGA Championship

Redefiining the “perfect 10″ – part two

By Mike Kern, Philadelphia Daily News

(Part one can be found in the December 2007 archives of minoritygolfmag.com)

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The bar has been raised a little higher, Lorena Ochoa wins Nabisco

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) -Lorena Ochoa, the Mexican star who once struggled in the majors, now is making them look easy. Read the story »

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