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The social significance of an African-American winning at Augusta National was lost on no one 22 years after Lee Elder had broken the color barrier at the Masters. In the week after Woods' victory, former winner Fuzzy Zoeller's insensitive comments about the new champion would put race back onto theLee Elder was doing a golf outing on Saturday but flew in from Florida on Sunday morning, picking up a speeding ticket on the way from Atlanta to Augusta. Elder, like the huge throngs around the leader, was eager to see history.
Date: Apr 04, 2017
Category: Sports
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As Tiger Woods misses his another Masters, how his 1997 win changed golf forever
It means so much, Woods said after that win of being the first African-American to win the Masters. Im the first, but I wasnt the pioneer. Charlie Sifford, Lee Elder, Teddy Rhodes, those guys paved the way for me to be here. I thank them. If it wasnt for them, I might not have had the chance
Date: Apr 03, 2017
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20 years later, how Tiger's win changed the face of golf
Thus, Sunday at the 61st Masters -- when Woods' closing 69 extended the lead to a dozen over runner-up Tom Kite -- challenged we media types to place his triumph in historical context. That day, we again had Lee Elder.
997 Masters was the first of his 14 majors. Beyond his record score of 270 (which Jordan Spieth tied last year), it was significant because of Augusta National's history with blacks. The club did not have its first participant until Lee Elder in 1975, and its first member until Ron Townsend in 1990.
Date: Jun 06, 2016
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Former golfer Oosterhuis tells magazine he has Alzheimer's disease
Oosterhuis was tall for his time at six-foot-five with an elegant swing. He won seven times on the European Tour and once on the PGA Tour. He lost in a playoff in the 1974 Monsanto Open to Lee Elder, a victory that led Elder to become the first black to compete in the Masters.
Date: Jun 29, 2015
Category: Sports
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Why don't we have enough African-Americans on PGA Tour? It's because of the ...
LA Open and that should have earned him entry to the Masters. Officials denied him but Sifford did not sit it out quietly. He never got the chance to challenge the green jackets again but in 1974 Lee Elder did and this time, in the face of pressure summoned by the Sifford scandal, Augusta relented.
Woods was close to the late Charlie Sifford, who broke the color barrier on the PGA. He also has met Lee Elder, the first black to play in the Masters who was at Augusta National when Woods won his first green jacket. He never crossed paths with Peete.
eete's elbow healed incorrectly when his doctor didn't properly set the arm in a cast. With his easily recognizable swing because of his permanently bent arm, Peete used uncanny accuracy off the tee to become the fourth African-American to win on Tour, joining Pete Brown, Charlie Sifford and Lee Elder.