Oneda Maryon Castillo (born April 13, 1952) is a Global Education Instructor for the Ladies Professional Golfers Association (LPGA). She joined the LPGA in 1997. She is the third African American woman to achieve Class A status as a LPGA Teaching and Club Professional (T&CP), doing so in 2003. As of 2022 she is one of only 15 African American women golfers to become a Class A LPGA Teaching Professional. Oneda had a personal quest to play golf in all 50 states. She conquered the links in her 50th state on January 13, 2018, at the world famous Kapalua Golf Course in Lahaina, Hawaii. Ironically, this occurred on the same day as the fake missile notification in Hawaii, which garnered her participation in another historic event. She shared all the exciting details of her journey with the LPGA Women's Network in a video. Watch the video here. Oneda now works as the Vice President of the Women's Golf and Travel Concierge company. Early life Castillo was born April 13, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, as the second of three children to Walter and Ruth Scott. She was raised by her mother, along with her two brothers, in Cleveland Ohio and Buffalo, New York, where she graduated from Bennett High School in 1970. She went on to study engineering at Lakeland College in Mentor, Ohio. Pursuit of her vocation led her to become one of the only female machinists making nuclear reactors for submarines. At the same time, having played all the sports growing up, her sports interests led her to sign up for the National Women's Football League (NWFL). In 1980 she played for the Cleveland Brewers. To work toward inclusion was sparked for her in 1962, fourth grader, Castillo and a few of her classmates, were bused to an all-white elementary school to prove that there was integration in Cleveland, Ohio where she was growing up. However, instead of being a part of the class, the young students were isolated from the rest of the student population and taught in a classroom alone. Castillo remembers her aunt, Oneda Holzendorf, as the first golfer in her family. She became interested in the sport when she was thirty, after her husband, Ron Castillo, coaxed her onto the tee with a golf club. Castillo is the Director of Golf for the Women in Golf Foundation. Additionally, she works passionately with The Georgia State