This book written be Pete McDaniel (one of the first African Americans to achieve prominence as a golf journalist) is a must read for golfers and non-golfers!!!

This book has a fast-moving, heart-warming narrative on the history of African-Americans in golf. Beginning with the 1896 U.S. Open where African Americans first played in national competition, to the invention of the golf tee by an African-American dentist in 1899, to the early clubs and facilities open to everyone, to the service roles that served as an introduction to the game.
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Uneven Lies: The Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf by Pete McDaniel