African American Golfer

Introduction

The PGA Championship (or U.S. PGA Championship or PGA) is a golf professional tournament for men, founded in1916, takes place annually in the United States, and organized by the U.S. Professional Golfers Association (PGA of America). This is one of the four majors, which make up the grand slam (the Masters, the U.S. Open and British Open). Organized with the long form of match play (1916-1957), it is now played in stroke play. Its title holder is the American Keegan Bradley.

The first PGA Championship was held in 1916 at Siwanoy Country Club in Bronxville, New York. The trophy was donated by Rodman Wanamaker, and today it is known as the Wanamaker Trophy. Originally it was a tournament-Match Play, but it was turned into Stroke Play in 1958, certainly by pressure from U.S. television, which preferred to show the largest number of possible players. The first winner, Jim Barnes, received $500 in 1916 (compared to the 2006 African American winner, Tiger Woods, who received over a million dollars for his victory). The PGA guides golf's rules and regulations, and the PGA sanctions all professional golf events in the United States. The PGA determines what golf clubs can be used, the composition of golf clubs, and how courses are laid out. Although the PGA is a nonprofit organization, its decisions help certain companies make money on their products because only PGA-approved equipment may be used on the professional tour.

Qualification criteria:

All former winners of the USPGA.

Winners of the last five U.S. Open

The last winner of the event Senior.

Top 15 of the previous USPGA.

The top 20 of the last national championship professional (PGA Professional National Championship)

The 70 professional golfers who raised the most money in the current year.

Members of the last American Ryder Cup team.

The winners of the tournaments on the PGA Tour this year.

The organization can reserve seats for other golfers as those mentioned above; the total space is limited to 156 participants (Kirsch, 99).

Apart from this criterion, there was some discrimination among the population before 1990. The people other than white did not allow taking part in the game. Above the list were African Americans. The black people could not be a part of the tournament teams. The people of African Americans had to face a lot of discrimination in every field in the history.

Description and Analysis

Throughout most of their history in the United States, African Americans faced restrictions on activities in all walks of life. Although, are citizens by birth, African Americans were excluded from mainstream society through formal legal restrictions, and through informal cultural stereotypes, and practices. As a result, by the early 20th century, African Americans had developed a strong double consciousness, self-awareness that is based on the prejudices of the dominant societal group and the discrimination they inflict, despite the presence of a community life that is much richer than is acknowledged by outsiders.

Double consciousness is the condition of being simultaneously American and not American and having little ability to change that ...