Sport
New Orleans course designed by famed black golfer re-opens
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
An 18 hole golf course designed in 1956 by the pioneering African-American New Orleans-born golfer Joseph M. Bartholomew (pictured) is, six years after it was flooded by Hurricane Katrina, re-opening.
During the segregation era, Pontchartrain Park Golf Course, renamed for Bartholomew in 1979, was the only golf course in the area available to African-Americans. In 1972 Bartholomew became the first African-American inducted into the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame.