BY WILLIAM HENDERSON The Father/Son Golf Outing was first initiated on Father’s Day Weekend in June 2003.  The concept of the “Outing” was to promote companionship, camaraderie, networking and an all around good time amongst family and friends. The other purpose of the golf outing was to celebrate and show appreciation to my father hence the “Father/Son” title.  Over the years, decades, centuries even, you hear about how the presence of a male figure - particularly for black boys - has decreased.  You hear and see so much negativity about the black father that you wonder if any worthwhile dads even exist.  I wanted to show and prove that at least one exists among the madness. My father, whose name is Pearlie, (yeah I said Pearlie) is a special man.  He is 69 years young and an avid golfer.  He isn’t your typical man when it comes to sports.  My dad’s not a big sport fan, so he doesn’t care too much about football, baseball, of basketball.  He knows the names of the main personalities past and present, but mainly due to my mother who is the sportsman of the two.  She can tell you stuff from the ...