PEBBLE BEACH, CALIF. — The words on the back of his wedges remind Kamaiu Johnson that while nothing in golf has ever come easily, he is determined not to let that get in the way of his dreams.
Johnson, a 27-year-old Black man with a most serendipitous entry into the white world of golf, had done well enough on the Advocates Pro Golf Association Tour that he was awarded a sponsor exemption into the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, his first taste of the PGA Tour.
“I was talking to him that Tuesday and he was barely coherent,” saiqd Ken Bentley, the CEO and co-founder of the APGA that aims to develop minorities for careers in golf.