Stephen Curry to Launch ‘Underrated’ Junior Golf Tour for Underprivileged Children

Stephen Curry to Launch 'Underrated' Junior Golf Tour for Underprivileged Kids

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When he isn’t main the Golden State Warriors within the NBA playoffs, Stephen Curry is seeking to assist make golf extra accessible for underprivileged student-athletes.

Joel Beall of Golf Digest reported Curry’s Underrated model is becoming a member of with the American Junior Golf Affiliation to host 5 tournaments for individuals who could not usually have entry to the hyperlinks.

“Lower than 2 % of golfers are folks of colour,” Curry stated. “This gives a platform for fairness, entry and alternative for individuals who cannot get their huge break, but additionally who wish to play head-to-head with a few of the greatest gamers on the AJGA.”

The eight-time All-Star and two-time MVP could also be greatest recognized for his basketball expertise, however Curry is not any stranger to golf.

He performed in highschool whereas rising up in North Carolina and has additionally competed in beginner and movie star tournaments. He was notably spectacular in 2018 when he shot a one-over 71 within the first spherical of the Ellie Mae Traditional Internet.com Tour competitors.

Curry is seeking to unfold his love of the sport and can fund all journey bills and entrance charges for the individuals within the tournaments. On the finish of the match cycle, the 24 greatest girls and boys will compete within the Underrated Tour Championship held at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, with the winners taking house the Curry Cup.

This isn’t Curry’s first enterprise in bettering entry to golf.

In 2019, he introduced he would assist fund and sponsor males’s and ladies’s golf groups at Howard College, which had beforehand disbanded its groups in the course of the Nineteen Seventies:         

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NBA celebrity Stephen Curry is in DC in the present day for the announcement that he’ll sponsor Howard Univ. males’s and ladies’s golf applications for the subsequent six years.

HU athletic director known as it “one of the beneficiant items” within the college’s historical past. pic.twitter.com/z5sVS3MkKM

As for the championship chase on the hardwood, Curry’s Warriors are up 2-0 on the Denver Nuggets of their first-round playoff collection. The collection shifts to Denver for Thursday’s Recreation 3, and the celebrity has come off the bench to this point as he works his means again from a foot damage.

That did not cease him from dropping 34 factors in 23 minutes in Recreation 2 on Monday.     


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