This image of three black children holding sticks that look like golf clubs, taken around 1905, was most likely a staged shot, for purposes unknown.  People of color did not have access to the game of golf in these years, unless they were employed as caddies.  To play the game on an equal footing with white society was a hard fought struggle.  Tiger Woods and others like him stand on the shoulders of men like Ted Rhodes, Bill Spiller, Charlie Sifford, and women like Althea Gibson and Renee Powell. These men and women were pioneers, and had to deal with extreme prejudice just to play the game.  Golf is a great game, but its governing bodies were no more enlightened than the rest of the country in the first part of the 20th century in the way they treated minorities.   The PGA of America had a "Caucasian only" clause in its by-laws until 1961.  And to think that sixty-five years earlier, John Shippen, an African-American, finished 5th in the 1896 U.S. Open.  For a good book on the history of this subject, read Pete McDaniel's Uneven Lies:  The Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf.