ORANGEBURG, S.C. – One glance at Robert and Honesty Biggers, and it’s easy to see they are brother and sister. There’s the family resemblance, their common love of golf and the sort of competitiveness that only siblings understand.
ORANGEBURG, S.C. – One glance at Robert and Honesty Biggers, and it’s easy to see they are brother and sister. There’s the family resemblance, their common love of golf and the sort of competitiveness that only siblings understand.
Ask the members of the South Carolina State men’s and women’s golf teams if they have a history of rivalry, and both laugh.
“It started when we would play together as kids,” Robert Biggers, a senior, said. “Honesty would try to beat me; I told her, ‘If you ever beat me, I’ll quit.’”
“Then I beat him a couple of times,” Honesty Biggers, a sophomore, said with a grin. Did she demand he quit? “No, I wanted him to keep playing so I could beat him some more.”
Brother and sister? Legally, yes.
But Robert Biggers, at 22 — the youngest of five children is, in fact, her uncle; her mother is his older sister. But his parents, Robert Sr. and Renaa Biggers, adopted his now-20-year-old sister when she was about 8. Renaa Biggers gave her the name because the sophomore said, “she said my mom lied a lot.”
Confusing? It gets worse when Honesty Biggers refers to her adopted parents as grandpa and grandma, which they are.
What is less ambiguous is their mutual golf gene. The Biggers led their respective teams in the National Minority Youth Collegiate Championship this month.
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