Although recognized extra for his three-pointers than his par-threes, the Golden State Warriors icon is an avid golfer and is now seeking to safe the game’s subsequent technology by means of his “Underrated Golf Tour.”
Organized in collaboration with the American Junior Golf Affiliation (AJGA), the Tour will likely be “utterly freed from cost” to gamers, protecting the price of journey, lodging and meals.
“All people is aware of I like the sport of golf and I could not be extra excited to increase this like to the very best younger gamers throughout the nation,” Curry mentioned in a video posted to
Twitter on April 21.
“Lower than 2% of golfers are individuals of shade, and our tour supplies a platform for fairness, entry and alternative for girls and boys who wish to play and compete with the present greatest gamers on the AJGA.”
The five-event Tour will kick off in Chicago in June earlier than concluding with the tour championship, hosted in Curry’s and the Warriors’ personal Bay Space at TPC Harding Park, August 28-30.
The invite solely championship will likely be contested by the 24 greatest performing gamers on the Tour, with the winner taking dwelling the Curry Cup.
Constructing illustration
By means of his Underrated model, Curry has run a basketball tour since 2019. Underrated Golf’s intention is to “present fairness, entry and alternative to student-athletes from each group by balancing participation within the sport to really mirror our society,” in line with the group’s web site.
The web site says that, regardless of the legendary profession of Tiger Woods, “the variety of black golfers arising in his footwear continues to be much less and fewer” in a “system and establishment … designed to profit sure teams over others.”
Curry instructed the San Francisco Chronicle that by means of the initiative, “We’re attempting to proceed to construct illustration within the recreation, and we must always have a cool alternative to supply perspective and assets for these youngsters to hopefully set them up for fulfillment inside golf, as an athlete, but in addition the enterprise of golf and getting them workforce-ready.”
Curry impressed on his skilled golf debut on the Ellie Mae Basic in 2017, and responding to his new tour, former world No. 1 Fred {Couples}, Masters champion in 1992, praised Curry’s “imaginative and prescient” for the game.
“This man [Curry] continues to amaze me,” {Couples}
tweeted. “His imaginative and prescient for the sport of golf with the Underrated Tour is second to none.
“I am all in! Cannot wait to see the way forward for the sport of golf on the course this summer time.”
