{"id":2497,"date":"2019-02-05T17:29:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2020-03-10T13:24:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T13:24:11","slug":"first-african-american-pga-tour-dies-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/first-african-american-pga-tour-dies-92\/","title":{"rendered":"First African American on PGA Tour Dies at 92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Sifford, the first African American on the PGA Tour has died at the age of 92. Sifford challenged the white-only clause and the PGA tour rescinded it in 1961. He later won the Greater Hartford Open in 1967 and the Los Angeles Open in 1969. &#8220;His love of golf, despite many barriers in his path, strengthened him as he became a beacon for diversity in our game,&#8221; PGA of America president Derek Sprague told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story here :: <a href=\"http:\/\/golfweek.com\/news\/2015\/feb\/04\/charlie-sifford-black-pga-tour-medal-of-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charlie Sifford, first black on PGA Tour, dies at 92<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Sifford, the first African American on the PGA Tour has died at the age of 92. Sifford challenged the white-only clause and the PGA tour rescinded it in 1961. He later won the Greater Hartford Open in 1967 and the Los Angeles Open in 1969. &#8220;His love of golf, despite many barriers in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5214,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/5214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegolfshoponline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}