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DETROIT – The Midnight Golf Program has done wonders for African Americans in a sport that’s dominated by White males; however, that’s something the program is hoping to change. “Midnight Golf started 20 years ago with only 17 students, and as of today, we’ve had 3,500 students,” said founder Renee Fluker. For 20 years, the Midnight Golf Program has been taking kids off the streets and placing golf clubs in their hands -- giving them a different alternative in life. Fluker said the program started when her son had a rough time being the only person of color on his...

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You just can’t make that up. Adrian Stills says those six words often to explain things that, well, he just can’t explain. Like how the 63-year-old former PGA Tour player now manages and serves as director of golf at Osceola Municipal in Pensacola, the same nearly-century-old facility where Stills learned the game as a Black kid growing up along Florida’s Gulf Coast in the 1960s. Or how Stills, having qualified for the 1998 U.S. Open at Olympic Club, played a practice round with buddy Lee Janzen, during which Janzen predicted he was going to win that week – and then did....

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Senior Otis Ferguson IV had tried for years to launch a golf team at Howard University. He printed flyers, held interest meetings with prospective team members and even reached out to a nonprofit that offered to provide golf equipment. Yet, the team never got off the ground. But that is about to change, thanks to Ferguson’s encounter at Howard earlier this year with NBA superstar Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors, who, like Ferguson, is an avid golfer. In January, Howard hosted a screening of Emanuel, a documentary about the 2015 massacre of nine black worshipers by a white...

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The only golf most folks have seen Tiger Woods play this year came from the HBO feature, "Tiger," which has been met with a variety of reactions in the absence of Tiger playing actual PGA Tour golf -- which he will not be doing for a while following his fifth back surgery. Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, recently called it "another unauthorized and salacious outsider attempt to paint an incomplete portrait of one of the greatest athletes of all time." However, most people I know enjoyed it and thought it was many things including entertaining, thorough, humanizing and sad. But Tiger's...

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NBC Sports continues their push into podcasts with the launch of Beyond The Fairway, a golf series hosted by Doug Smith and Will Lowery.  The pair of seasoned mini-tour grinders aim for the sweet spot where golf and popular culture collide while also seamlessly engaging guests from Basketball Hall of Famer Ray Allen to social media influencer Tisha Alyn in an earnest dialogue on societal issues and hot-button topics of the day. 

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