PHOTO:Montana Pritchard/The PGA of America
Bethune-Cookman won the PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship for the second time in three years.
One glance at the team pictures of the men’s and women’s winners from last weekend’s PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship might make people rethink the term “minority.”
“There’s something missing, isn’t there?” Jackson State golf coach Eddie Payton said with a sly grin. “Pictures are a little grainy, aren’t they?”
The men of Texas Pan-American and the women of Bethune-Cookman each won for the second time in the past three years. Neither school has an African-American on its roster. Half of Bethune-Cookman’s six golfers, in fact, are European.
Where are all the minority golfers at the PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship?
“I raise that question sometimes myself,” said Earnie Ellison, the PGA director of business and community relations, who is African-American. “But we do not tell the coaches who to put on their teams.”
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kinda hard to teach your kid to golf whith a crack pipe in your hands!
ReplyDeleteI think they got it right as whites are now the minority
ReplyDelete2:10 you are in no way stereotyping at all right. And trust me pal, plenty of crackheads in all colors
ReplyDeleteTalent is talent. What? Do you expect them to field an inferior team?
ReplyDeleteI do.
In keeping with the school's minority status, and all associated incentives, affirmative action and extra funding, they should be forced to field a minority team. Not a team of white Europeans they BRIBE with scholarships.
I expect them to find talented minority golfers and groom them to the level of professionals.
Just common sense.
I expect them to find talented minority golfers and groom them to the level of professionals.
ReplyDeleteJust common sense.
May 17, 2012 10:25 PM
Maybe they are still searching for that 'talent'.
You can't force students to play sports that they don't like or aren't familiar with. UMES is a black college and last couple of years couldn't get black players on their baseball team because the interest just wasn't there.
ReplyDeleteUMES' 2012 NCAA Bowling Champions are always non-black.
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