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East Lake foursome tee off for a full ride
By CHARLES YOO
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/09/06
It was no ordinary field where the boys from the East Lake neighborhood grew up playing.
The grass was always immaculately trimmed. Its clubhouse sold polo shirts. Men who wore tailored suits to work were regulars there. It was a rarefied environment for four black kids from a housing project so violent it was dubbed "Little Vietnam."
For a decade, a group of boys took free golf lessons at the East Lake Golf Club through a program for kids from the surrounding neighborhood on the western edge of DeKalb County. And it paid off.
The boys ? Brandon Bradley, 17; Shelton Davis, 18; Willie Brown, 18; and Rodriquez Lowery, 18 ? have all been accepted to Louisiana's Grambling State University on full golf scholarships.
The scholarships are sweet redemption for the young men who were dissed by their peers because they played golf.
"They said it's easy to play, it's boring to watch, and it's white people's sport." Brown said.
There's not much of that kind of talk anymore.
Find this article at:
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/0509metgolf.html
Rodriquez Lowery, Willie Brown, Shelton Davis and Brandon Bradley (from left)
had the last laugh on their peers who made fun of them for playing golf.
By CHARLES YOO
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/09/06
It was no ordinary field where the boys from the East Lake neighborhood grew up playing.
The grass was always immaculately trimmed. Its clubhouse sold polo shirts. Men who wore tailored suits to work were regulars there. It was a rarefied environment for four black kids from a housing project so violent it was dubbed "Little Vietnam."
For a decade, a group of boys took free golf lessons at the East Lake Golf Club through a program for kids from the surrounding neighborhood on the western edge of DeKalb County. And it paid off.
The boys ? Brandon Bradley, 17; Shelton Davis, 18; Willie Brown, 18; and Rodriquez Lowery, 18 ? have all been accepted to Louisiana's Grambling State University on full golf scholarships.
The scholarships are sweet redemption for the young men who were dissed by their peers because they played golf.
"They said it's easy to play, it's boring to watch, and it's white people's sport." Brown said.
There's not much of that kind of talk anymore.
Find this article at:
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/0509metgolf.html
Rodriquez Lowery, Willie Brown, Shelton Davis and Brandon Bradley (from left)
had the last laugh on their peers who made fun of them for playing golf.
