Golfer at Trails of Frisco course says racist message was written in the sand

Darius Jones expected to play a normal game of golf Wednesday morning at the Trails of Frisco Golf Club. Instead, he said he found a racist slur written in the sand and was met with indifference when he told a club employee.

The golf club’s shop attendant asked Jones what time the other “boy” was meeting him, Jones wrote in a widely circulating Facebook post.

“In the earlier days … boy was just a dressed-up way of calling somebody the N-word,” Jones told on Thursday.

“As a Black guy, I was kind of taken aback by it, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt,” he said.

When Jones and a friend approached the green at the sixth hole, he said they noticed the N-word written in the sand.

Ginny Dyer, a manager at the Trails of Frisco Golf Club, said the business is seeking legal advice and is not commenting on the situation at this time.

Initially, Jones said he considered leaving the golf course. His friend was opposed.

“My friend was like well, you know, that’s what they want us to do, so we continued on,” Jones said.

Jones shot a photo of the racial slur and showed it to the club’s shop attendant, who “zoomed in, gave me my phone back and didn’t say a word,” Jones wrote. “His indifference confirmed my earlier suspicion.”

Jones told The News that the shop attendant’s “indifference made [him] want to say something.”

“Last night I had to talk to my kids about what racism is. Again. … A lot of people think that it doesn’t happen in America and that things aren’t like this, but I guess my intent was just to shine a light and say it’s still happening,” Jones said.

Frisco police spokesman Grant Cottingham said the department has been notified and is investigating the matter.

“There should be no place in our society for this behavior yet here we are,” Jones wrote on Facebook. “The behavior exhibited by the folks at this establishment should anger us all. If you stand by and accept it you are just as culpable as the perpetrators.”

Earlier this year, a Frisco woman said she was “terrorized” by a neighbor who called her racial slurs and vandalized her property with racist graffiti for nearly a week before he was arrested.