renee powell followed in 1967.xt black player to arrive in 1995. since then others, most recently mariah stackhouse, have all made it. eight african—american women in 67 years. there are situations where you just genuinely feel uncomfortable, and you feel you need to get out of that situation. people staring at you, wondering whether you work there, not actually golfing in the adjournment, or asking where you're from. i get the occasional, "are you tiger woods' niece?" it's not that they don't mean to be discriminating or rude or anything, but sometimes people will think, oh, just because you're african—american... but thankfully i'm in a generation where it's not too horrible as to what renee had to go through all those years ago. it's making strides. i believe it has a long way to go, because still i go into a store and i have a golf outfit on, and you meet people that say," i didn't know that minorities play golf. like, you look like you don't play golf." well, what is the look of golf? you're right, it is a mal

in 2015 renee powell was again making history.and ancient, she was one of the first women to be invited. to me it is the highest honour one can ever get, the old course! the royal and ancient, with golf began, right there! to be one of the first seven women that was selected from around the entire world was absolutely amazing. and to me also it was a win in a sense for women. it was a win for african—americans and my family. so when i actually walked through the door as a bonus id member, it was like all these other women were walking with me and my whole family was going with me. it'sjust amazing. i'm so appreciative of that membership. but it is all due to all the sacrifices that my family had to make to be a part of something that is real history, and the fact that it was your family or your parents let me that history, yeah. and i'm the one that really gets a chance to benefit from it. on the face of it, golf has come a long way to ridding itself of the explicit barriers towards minorities and women. but how many implicit barr