The Breakers Men's Polo
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Description
1948 · 1961 · 1975 · 1997
Four dates carved into an unfinished mountain — scaffolding still up, ladders against the rock, the work plainly not done. Where the faces would be, there are none. Golf isn't finished, and nobody's likeness is for sale.
1948 — Ted Rhodes plays the U.S. Open at Riviera. That same year he, Bill Spiller and Madison Gunther qualify for the Richmond Open and are turned away: the PGA's constitution limits membership to Caucasians. They sue. The PGA settles, reclassifies its tournaments as invitationals, and stops inviting them.
1961 — The clause falls. California's Attorney General argues that Charlie Sifford is a Californian whose civil rights are being violated, and moves to bar the PGA from every public course in the state. The language comes out that November.
1975 — Lee Elder plays the Masters on April 10th, the first Black man to do it, having earned the invitation by winning the Monsanto Open.
1997 — Tiger Woods wins the Masters by twelve at twenty-one. Twenty-two years after Elder was first let through the gate.
The Breakers carries night — black body, the rock standing out of the dark. One of four shirts in the Mount Series, each set at a different hour of the same day, on the same mountain.
Not yet made. This shirt is in development as an all-over sublimation print. Join the waitlist and you'll hear the day it exists. Read the whole series
