Steph Curry earns Sifford Award for advancing golf diversity

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry has been chosen to obtain the Charlie Sifford Award for his work in advancing variety in golf.

Curry two years in the past launched “Underrated Golf” that commits to offering fairness, entry and alternative to highschool athletes from all communities. He additionally funded the Howard College golf staff for six years to assist the traditionally Black faculty compete on the Division I degree. Howard had not had a golf staff for the reason that Seventies.

Curry will obtain the award on the World Golf Corridor of Fame ceremony at Pinehurst, North Carolina, on June 10, the Monday earlier than the U.S. Open.

Sifford was the primary Black participant to grow to be a PGA Tour member in 1961. He was inducted into the World Golf Corridor of Fame in 2004. The Charlie Sifford Award was created in 2021 to honor a person who personifies Sifford’s groundbreaking achievements via perseverance, confidence, respect, and adaptableness.

“I am extremely honored to be chosen because the recipient of this yr’s Charlie Sifford Award and am grateful to the World Golf Corridor of Fame for the popularity on this sport that I’m so enthusiastic about,” Curry mentioned. “I consider that we’ve the chance to develop the sport of golf by offering fairness, entry and alternative to younger golfers who’ve that very same ardour, dedication and willpower as so many people out on the inexperienced.”