AFRICAN AMERICANS AND GOLF ON JEKYLL ISLAND

Historic golf played by Club members is only part of the story on Jekyll Island. Bagwell, Tyler E. “The Jekyll Island Club” http://www.jekyllislandhistory.com/jekyllclub.shtml. Jekyll Island was also a refuge for club workers. Id. Earl Hill, a 1920s golf caddy for the club, asserted, "[i]t was only three months out of the year that [the members were] there, the rest of the year, why only the employees had the use of the island. That's where I got my jump in golf, because the million aires would use the golf course three months out of the year, the other nine months I would use it." Id. As a man of African-descent, Mr. Hill would eventually organize and host a professional golf tournament as well as become owner of several profitable businesses. Id. Photographic evidence from the same era also shows women, presumably of African-descent as well, playing golf on Jekyll Island. (See above.)