Calvin Sinnette, Jeffrey Sammons, Cedrick Smith, Debert Cook

Calvin H. Sinnette, MD , An avid golfer for more than fifty years, is a 1949 graduate of Howard University College of Medicine and is Emeritus Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the same institution. As part of his interest in the African American golf experience, over the past three decades, Sinnette has acquired an extensive collection of African American golf memorabilia. 

Jeffrey T. Sammons, Ph.D, a professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society and coauthor of Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the Quest for African American Equality. Sammons has written widely on the subject of sport and race and has participated in and consulted on numerous documentary projects with independent filmmakers as well as large television networks. 

Cedrick Smith, MD is highly respected in Preventive and Occupational medical circles for his innovations in providing efficient and cost-effective healthcare. He has served as Clinic Medical Director for a national leading occupational and urgent care service provider for 15 years. He gave up football after high school after quarterbacking the highly touted Dallas Carter Cowboys from 1985-1987. He started playing golf at the age of 7 and had a successful junior golf career. Dr. Smith parlayed his golfing prowess into a four-year golf scholarship to Hampton University where he was four-time MVP, two-time NMGCA All-America and named Hampton University Athlete of the Year his senior year. In 1991 he was awarded a USGA Howard Creel Fellowship and worked on grants for junior golf programs.

Debert Cook, CMP, Publisher of African American Golfer's Digest is the first Black woman to wholly own a golf sports business.