You know Golf is for the very rich people and most black people are not rich in the world. Even in USA, most black people are not rich and in any leading golf tournament you cannot find too many black players. Of course, Tiger Woods is an exception and exception should never be treated as a rule or an example. So, you better keep Tiger Woods out of this matter.
Gadsden Times has a very informative article in this regard. It wrote:
Ten years after that breakthrough, though, there has been little progress. Woods will be the only black player in the field at Augusta National this coming week.
``It's a travesty, no doubt about it,'' said Pete McDaniel, a black author and journalist who has chronicled the history of blacks in golf. ``We've got a $60 billion-a-year industry. That's a pretty big pie. Here it is in 2007 and we don't get a sliver of the pie. We get table scraps.''
Woods on his own has engendered a surge in popularity that has led to about a threefold increase in prize money, which derives mainly from more lucrative TV and sponsorship deals. But it has yet to trickle down.
It hasn't even led to any other black playing regularly on the PGA Tour.
In fact, there are only a handful of black golfers currently circulating in the minor leagues of pro golf, not really hoping they can be the next Tiger - nobody dreams of that - but thinking they might get to join Tiger on the Tour some day.
May be someday, black golfers will make a huge difference in the world of Golf. But the sad reality is that that someday has not come yet. May be, it will take a generation for the black players to make their mark.
