Willie, a Black Birmingham businessman, an honorary member. Facing the prospect of losing the 1990 PGA Championship, which it had hosted in 1984, Thompson and Shoal Creek relented and made Louis J. Thompson’s comments to the local reporter set off a national controversy that would have reverberations across the game, particularly at elite private golf clubs. In the piece he told the story of Hall Thompson, the founder of Shoal Creek, a private Birmingham, Alabama, country club, who told a local reporter in 1990 that membership to his club “won’t discriminate in every other area except the blacks.” For his internship, Puryear worked at Golf Digest, where he wrote an article titled Shoal Creek Revisited. In the summer of 1992 after graduating from Tennessee State University, where he was a member of the golf team, Sam Puryear was an intern in the PGA Tour Minority Internship program.
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