Unsurprisingly, Steph Curry, newly champion of the 2021-22 NBA season with the Golden State Warriors, has always used his visibility as a way to support social and inclusive initiatives involving sports.
A good example is the creation of the Underrated Tour in 2019, a sports program aimed at a new generation of athletes to get the most out of their skills, aiming not only for developing an athlete, but also a person.
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The project, in its basketball version, launched an event for young players who, at some point, were not lucky enough to be observed by college coaches and play in the Division I of basketball, but also study, now has a version for tennis as a modality titled 'The Underrated Golf Tour'.
Launched recently in partnership with the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA), 'The Underrated Golf Tour' was launched with the aim of addressing the sport's lack of diversity, beyond the competition itself.
The first tournament of the four Underrated Tour's regional kicked off this week at Cog Hill Golf & Country Club outside Chicago in a field with approximately 60 players between 30 boys and 30 girls aged 12 to 18 years.