Oneda Maryon Castillo

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 conquered the links in her 50th state on January 13, 2018, at the Kapalua Golf Course in Lahaina, Hawaii. 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.

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.

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 Golf Association's Adaptive Golf Program and The PGA Hope Programs. These community clinics service veterans and civilians with physical, cognitive, and/or sensory impairments. She has added valuable influence and input into multiple organization throughout the country.

Castillo, alongside Lajean Gould, Founder of the Women in Golf Foundation, has hosted the National Women's Collegiate Golf Championship, which is an annual three-day, spring competitive golf event started in 1994. The event celebrates 27 years this year.

LPGA Instructor and Certified Club Fitter In 1997, Castillo joined the teaching ranks of the LPGA as a Certified Golf Teaching Professional. She is the third African American golfing professional to achieve Class A Status as a LPGA Teaching and Club Professional (T&CP), studying many hours and attending numerous seminars and workshops, culminating with testing and placing at the top of her group for the playing ability test, in 2003. She has taught LPGA Golf for Women's Clinics, Tiger Woods Golf Clinics, Hook a Kid on Golf Clinics, LPGA/US Girls Golf Clinic, Inc. and Odyssey Travel Golf Clinics. Castillo serves as a National Evaluator for the LPGA. She has taught alongside Tiger Woods at his Tiger Woods Golf Clinics at Brownsmill Golf Course. Oneda worked alongside Charlie Sifford son of the African American professional golfer Charlie Sifford who helped desegregate the PGA Tour and also taught alongside Renee Powell, the second African American female golfer to play on the LPGA Tour. Each year, Castillo with the Women In Golf Foundation hosts the Spring National Women's Collegiate Golf Championship.

Awards In 2017, Castillo was named one of the Top 50 Teachers by the LPGA Women's Golf Magazine. In 2012, Castillo was selected as the LPGA Teaching and Club Professional Southeast Section Teacher of the Year.

Amateur wins Cleveland Metro Parks Championship Call Post Championship City of Euclid Championship Placed first in her LPGA Qualifying Tournament