PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship supports underserved communities’ access to the game of golf

Golf is a magical game.

It has the power to take so many different places. Within a round, they try you far beyond your limits, since every shot you hit is literally something you have never seen or tested before. Adaptability to the highest level is required for sustained success.

Golf can also take places in a literal sense. Connections can be made. Relationships can be built. It is a sport, a game and/or hobby that the abveage person can play well in their older years.

Beyond and below, golf can also be fun. Playing with your friends and competing, either at a low or high level, stretches us to places where the will to win and hopefully arises against all others.

The PGA Works Collegiate Championship (PWCC) embodies all these qualities and then some. In Kohler, Wisconsin, in a world class place in a whistle, the PWCC is a national tournament where 180 HBCU athletes, institutes that serve history and other minority institutions gather and compete with the idea of ​​mash.

It is possible that it is not a golfer in my own right, but I imagine that he is aware that he has not always led a game that presents many opportunities for students of sub -substantled communities and/or people in general. Golf can be exclusive. Frankly, golf can be pretentious (to be a child). As in all forms of life, barriers must be broken and the walls must be demolished so that everyone has a fair and egalitarian opportunity.

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Known as the “most culturally significant championship in the Collegiate Golf”, the PWCC is being held at a time when the university golf is in ITBS Absolute Peak. These athletes are provided with an opportunity, thanks to the PGA of America, to do it with each other.

The senior impact director for PGA Reach Kennie Sims told me about the event, its beginning and how their mission is not only to provide the opportunity in question, but to ensure that students take some of the game as they advance in life. Consider that the PWCC began in 1986 when the inclusion of minorities was a lower priority than what it is today.

While golf lives in the center of the PWCC, Kennie and the permanent team involved are also looking to help students thesis athletes to prepare for life when they finish playing at their current level. These are university students, after all.

Kennie described a race showcase that will take place on Sunday, May 4 (that the room is with you!) One day before the event begins. Giving thesis students information and life resources that wait beyond graduation is something else that is not always made available to these young athletes. It happens that in the last six years that 72 PWCC participants have started their races in golf, demonstrating the value that an event like this can have.

However, when it comes to golf, it is very serious. The five divisions within the event include the division of the women’s team, the division of the male team of Division I, the division of the male team of Division II, the female individual and the male individual. There are titles to win.

Some of the athletes involved have experience on the underestimated golf tour. Underraned was founded by Golden State Warriors star, Steph Curry, and former professional golfist Will Lowery for Purple Express to provide underraperated youth opportunities within the game. At dawn of the idea of ​​the tour, Lowery launched Curry that only 17% of young blacks and brown play recreational golf. Only 2% reached legitimate levels or competence.

To date, more than 40 players have obtained university or professionals opportunities thanks to underestimated. Consider that the University of Southern has five athletes in this year’s PWCC and that they recruited heavy from the underestimated tour.

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Lowery’s, Curry and the voice of disposal of the underestimated tour from a point of view “What can we do” where the numbers for the players involved need to increase, but not everyone has opportunities, so there is underestimated? Golf can take someone anywhere, Lowery said he has tasks personally to the four corners of the earth, but if people cannot experience it, those opportunities can never exist.

The work he underestimated and the PWCC are doing together in harmony matters not only in golf but in the great scheme of life. Creating events, tours and/or opportunities for minorities to experience that otherwise they cannot do is essential for the growth and development of our world. These are memories that are being done. Lowery told me that his podcast coanfrerion close Talk about how he won the PWCC many years ago.

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Sports have a unique power to join everyone in that way and the thesis doors are open in the golf game by some special people who know what it is so that they not only close, but do not exist at all.

Howard Morgan Harrell will participate in the event this week and is excited about all the opportunity presented:

“What I like most about the PWCC is that it is more than a golf tournament, it is a platform with a larger purpose. This event is about creating space and opportunities for communities surrendered in golf and I feel truly honored.

The PWCC can be seen in Golf Channel from Monday to Wednesday from 4 to 7 pm et. It is sure to say that, such as Morgan and innumerable others can try, that some lives will change, while the fun is in the process.