pete mcdaniel: but this was freed om. this gave us a place to pl ay.e greatest rt about olf is that it's an individual eff t. it's you, e golf bl, anthe golf rse. one cannfluenceha t-- no ne you' total in control. anfor peop-- or apeople who had ever been in ntrol ofanythi, i th k th was a rl appealof theame of golf. rius rucke after bly and the other african-americ ans flooded out to muni and played any day they wanted, in 1959 a group of pla yers organized the skyview golf association and tourname nt. its hope was to promote golf in the black commun ity and help players to become professio nal. the first skyview golf tournament was held in 1 960. and it soon became one of "the" tournam ents on the african-american golf circu it. [music playi ng] cortez baxter: skyview was the biggest thing in western north roli na. dwight bryson:ig bimajor ev ent. billy gardenhight: well, the best year, we had 254 golf ers. dwight bryson: people from north, south, east, west-- they're coming in cadill acs. they're coming in buicks fords, even taxica bs. cortez baxter