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When the fairways weren't fair

By Scoop Jackson
Page 2

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

There is a moment in "Uneven Fairways" (Golf Channel, Feb. 11, 9 p.m. ET) that freezes you. It's when Bill Spiller Jr., son of legendary black "outcast" Bill Spiller Sr., says, "The PGA broke my father's heart." When the comment leaves the junior Spiller's lips, it isn't necessarily the words that stiffen you. It's the disdain and pain in his eyes. For years, his father was denied the right to play on the PGA Tour because of its exclusionary "Caucasians-only" clause. Even when he was allowed ...

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