Bill J Spiller

"For some reason, a couple guys throughout history Teddy Rhodes, Bill Spiller all those guys that I wish I would have gotten a chance to meet and a chance to talk to, I never really got that opportunity," Woods said.

harlotte, North Carolina. He worked as a caddie and dominated the all-black United Golfers Association, winning five straight national titles. He longed to play against the best players, only to run into the same barriers that Teddy Rhodes and Bill Spiller faced - the Caucasian-only clause.

une 22, 1922, in Charlotte, N.C. He worked as a caddie and dominated the all-black United Golfers Association, winning five straight national titles. He longed to play against the best players, only to run into the same barriers that Teddy Rhodes and Bill Spiller faced the Caucasian-only clause.

Several African American golfers, including Ted Rhodes and Bill Spiller, competed in isolated PGA-sponsored tournaments in the late 1940s, but for years only three events on the tour in Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto were open to black golfers. Mr. Sifford began to challenge those restrictions

22 in Charlotte, North Carolina. He worked as a caddie and dominated the all-black United Golfers Association, winning five straight national titles. He longed to play against the best players, only to run into the same barriers that Teddy Rhodes and Bill Spiller faced the Caucasian-only clause.

Woods, who along with Jack Nicklaus are considered the greatest golfers of the modern era, told The Associated Press in an email that he might never have taken up the game were it not for Sifford and unheralded greats like Ted Rhodes and Bill Spiller. Woods has long called Sifford the grandfather he