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ROLLING OUT MAGAZINE PROFILE FEATURE
Debert Cook, CMP
Founder/Publisher/ Editor-In-Chief
African American Golfer’s Digest
"Teeing Up In The Publishing World"
From behind one of the bunkers, the golf gods
had to be snickering at the radical paradigm shift along
the PGA Tour landscape. In this historically homogenous
sport, two dark-pigmented players, Tiger Woods and Vijay
Singh, have a stranglehold on the top two slots in the professional
world rankings.
Additionally, there has been an explosion in the sport’s
popularity in the urban setting, with more minorities sprinkled
liberally along the galleries. One thing was missing: there
needed to be a publication that catered to this burgeoning
and embryonic phenomenon. Debert Cook, founder of Event
Planners Plus, filled this vacuum with the founding of the
African American Golfer’s Digest.
In addition to exposing newcomers to the nuances of the
sport, the quarterly-published AAGD provides the type of
in-depth content so conspicuously vacant in other golf-based
publications, Cook reveals.
“If you look at the other magazines, it’s not
like the African American Golfer’s Digest magazine,
where on every single page you’ll see a black face,”
says the New York resident who was in Cleveland for the
Frasernet conference. “And we’re 100 percent
black owned. So we’re really committed to the black
community.”
That commitment translates into comprehensive coverage on
a multitude of previously omitted topics, such as pioneer
Charlie Sifford’s induction into the World Golf Hall
of Fame. The AAGD also pays scrupulous attentiveness to
the average black golfer’s lifestyle, bestowing readers
with executive profiles, business destinations, exotic golfing
outposts around the world, including in Africa, and the
contribution of black inventors.
“There are still so many black inventors that have
great products that just need it launched into the market,”
Cook says resolutely. In fact, it was Cook’s business
interactions on the golf course via her Event Planners Plus
business, where her love-affair with golf has its origin,
that she became conscious of the need for a black golf magazine.
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-Terry Shropshire
Rolling Out Magazine
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