The Memorial Match introduced by Workday and the Black Golf Alliance (BGA), in affiliation with the PGA TOUR, are internet hosting the second annual BGA Juneteenth Golf Weekend Basic. The forty seventh enjoying of the Memorial, the celebrated PGA TOUR occasion hosted yearly by golf legend Jack Nicklaus, will function the backdrop for the 2022 BGA Juneteenth occasion.
The occasion runs Could 30 – June 5, 2022 on the famend Muirfield Village Golf Membership.
In recognition of Juneteenth-an American vacation honoring the liberty of enslaved individuals in the USA on the finish of the Civil Battle-BGA created the Juneteenth Golf Weekend Basic to assist entities, foundations, and organizations that align with its core mission, to develop the sport of golf within the Black neighborhood by means of love, unity, and respect for one another and the sport itself. This 12 months’s occasion will profit the Wilberforce College (WU) Golf Staff. Positioned in Wilberforce, Ohio, WU is the nation’s oldest non-public, traditionally Black College owned and operated by African People.
The Basic will kick off by internet hosting golfers from across the nation for 3 thrilling rounds of golf at Ohio-area programs, together with Clearview Golf Course in Akron (the one golf course within the U.S. designed, constructed, and owned by an African American-Clearview was named a Nationwide Historic Web site by the U.S. Division of the Inside in 2001), Golf Membership of Dublin, and The Nation Membership at Muirfield. Individuals may also attend the Memorial Match and benefit from the competitors at one of many premier stops on the PGA TOUR.
Moreover, Basic company could have the chance to donate their time by volunteering on the Memorial Match to lift extra funds for Nationwide Youngsters’s Hospital, the Memorial’s major beneficiary for the reason that occasion’s inception in 1976. In recognition of the newly established relationship between the Match and BGA, the Memorial will make a contribution to the WU Golf Staff as a match to the funds raised by the BGA Juneteenth Weekend Basic.
