Movie star Samuel L. Jackson has signed on to narrate a new golf documentary about the sport's African-American pioneers. The new film, Uneven Fairways, will premiere on The Golf Channel this week.

The documentary, based on the books "Uneven Lies" by Pete McDaniel and "Forbidden Fairways" by Calvin H. Sinnette, chronicles an era when "honor and fair play took a backseat to segregation."

The film celebrates the golfers who confronted prejudice and endured indignities for the right to play golf at its highest level - and paved the way for golfing greats like Tiger Woods, who appears in the documentary.

Jackson is one of the celebrity world's top golfers.

Among the facts the new film throws up: Heavyweight boxer Joe Louis was the first African-American to compete in a PGA-sanctioned event at the 1952 San Diego Open in California.

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