{"id":238,"date":"2004-11-16T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/uncategorized\/a_lifetime_of_achievement\/"},"modified":"2004-11-16T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-16T20:36:00","slug":"a_lifetime_of_achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/other\/a_lifetime_of_achievement","title":{"rendered":"A Lifetime of Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"charlie_sifford.jpg\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/other\/charlie_sifford.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"bordered\" \/>As mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/other\/kite_and_others_for_hall_of_fame\/\" title=\"Kite and Others for Hall of Fame\">earlier<\/a>, Charlie Sifford was among those inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame this past Monday, almost fifty years after becoming the first African-American on the PGA Tour. Sifford, despite a warning from black baseball player Jackie Robinson that he would face taunts and threats, fought the PGA Tour over its Caucasian-only clause until he became its first black member in 1960. It wasn&#8217;t a complete win, however, as Sifford couldn&#8217;t stay in hotels at some of the tournaments he played.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Sifford only won two PGA Tour victories, the 1967 Greater Hartford Open and the 1969 Los Angeles Open. However, he wasn&#8217;t even given the chance to compete at the Masters as he was never invited. Still, many believe Sifford&#8217;s election through the Lifetime Achievement category was overdue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Charlie won tournaments, but more important, he broke a barrier,&#8221; Jack Nicklaus said. &#8220;I think what Charlie Sifford has brought to this game has been monumental. To be inducted into the Hall of Fame&hellip; I think it&#8217;s about time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Sifford was inducted to the World Golf Hall of Fame in the Lifetime Achievement category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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