The Grass Ceiling

09/18/2016

Sadena Parks is just the fifth black woman to earn her LPGA Tour card since the tour's founding in 1950. As a child, she would accompany her dad whenever he went to the course. He bought her a starter set of clubs when she was nine years old and the rest is history.

08/16/2016

Did you know? In 1988, Rose Harper took the first ever African American youth delegation to the Olympic Games? Rose and her students went to Seoul with two missions: 1) to study the behind-the-scene business of conducting the largest-scale sporting event in the world, and 2) to introduce as many people as possible to the concept of golf becoming an olympic sport!

The Seoul Olympic Committee housed Rose, who served as an official US delegate, and her youth delegates in the olympic village amongst the coaches and athletes of the games.

08/08/2016

Our founder and CEO, Rose Harper has an incredible story. Her journey into the world of golf was recently featured in Washington Business Journal. Take a look to find out how she broke through the grass ceiling.

Harper’s journey from the fourth child of seven on a Hyattsville farm to global golfing legend — enshrined in the National Black Hall of Fame and dubbed by a golf writer as one of the “Talented Tenth” for black women in the field — is a long one. VIDEO

08/05/2016

For the first time in history there are four black women on the LPGA tour. Here at the Grass Ceiling, we are all about celebrating black excellence, especially when it comes to the sport that we love, golf! Throughout the month, we will be highlighting the stories of these extraordinary women.

{From left to right: Ginger Howard, Mariah Stackhouse, Sadena Parks, Robbi Howard (caddie for her sister Ginger), Cheyenne Woods. }

03/06/2016

My book, Art of the Deal: Golf - Access to Success is now available on Amazon!

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