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America's First Golf Pro Was Black—Then Banned for 52 Years In 1896, John Shippen Jr., a 16-year-old Black caddie at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, became the first American-born golf professional when he entered the second U.S. Open. Born December 2, 1879, in Washington D.C., Shippen was the son of John Shippen Sr. (son of an enslaved person and Presbyterian minister) and Eliza Spotswood Shippen (Shinnecock Native American). When Scottish and English professionals learned Shippen and his friend Os