The Golfer's Journal Podcast
The Golfer's Journal Podcast
The Golfer's Journal
Episode 64: The Johns of Aronimink
39 minutes Posted Oct 5, 2020 at 9:00 am.
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With Aronimink Golf Club set to host the KPMG Ladies PGA Championship, Tom Coyne and Casey Bannon pay the Donald Ross blue-chipper a visit in search of the real stories behind two of golf’s most under-appreciated characters: John Shippen and John McDermott. As it quickly becomes apparent, you can’t talk about America’s first Black golf professional and caddie-turned-U.S. Open-champion without the ‘Mink.