AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Fifty years ago, when Lee Elder became the first Black golfer to qualify for the Masters, he wasn't much in a mood to discuss it.
"I'm not talking," Elder told reporters on April 7, 1975. "Every time I talk, I get into trouble."
His agent, who was also his wife at the time, said he was serious about it. "Lee feels that this is the only fair way," Rose Elder said. "He's here to play golf, and he wants to be left alone."
But Elder's caddie never had a problem talking. And Henry J.