Topic: Lee Elder

Tom Watson will join fellow Hall of Fame golfers Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player as an honorary starter at the Masters in April in Augusta, Ga., Augusta National Golf Club chairman Fred Ridley announced Tuesday.

Lee Elder, the first Black golfer in history to compete at a Masters Tournament, has died, the PGA Tour announced Monday. He was 87.

Lee Elder, who became the first Black Masters participant in 1975, made more history Thursday when he joined golf legends Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player as an honorary starter at the 2021 edition of the major tournament.

Flowers and fans return to flank fairways this week at Augusta National Golf Club for the 2021 Masters Tournament. An 88-player field will compete at the major, which was postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19.

An Italian prosecutor has asked for life sentences for two American students who have been charged with murdering a police officer in Rome in 2019.

Italian police said they arrested two U.S. teens Saturday after they confessed to involvement in the stabbing death of a police officer investigating a theft.

Few images make modern Americans more uncomfortable than that of a white golfer strolling down a fairway with his black caddie trudging behind him. But most of the black caddies are gone, and their decline has has crippled black advancement in tournament

The controversy over the male-only membership policy of the Augusta National Golf Club, host of this week's Masters Tournament, is often seen as a replay of the disputes over the racial integration of golf. Yet, after civil rights triumphs, the history of

Jack Nicklaus returns to the site of one of his record 18 PGA Tour major titles this week to compete in the Senior PGA Championship, which gets under way Thursd