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What Is the APGA Tour? Everything You Need To Know

Marcus Byrd at the 2022 APGA Tour Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines South

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The APGA Tour is the Advocates Pro Golf Association Tour. It is a non-profit organization founded in 2010 to provide African American and other minority golfers the opportunity to compete at the highest level of professional golf.

What Is the APGA Tour?

Since 2010, the APGA has grown from a three-tournament schedule and $40,000 in total prize money, to 18 tournaments at some of America’s most prestigious golf courses, and over $1 million in prize and bonus money in 2022. 

The tour’s success has fueled individual success. Or, maybe it’s the other way around. Either way, Willie Mack III , the 2021 APGA Lexus Cup winner, made a successful Q-School run in 2022 to earn his Korn Ferry Tour card for 2023, where he is one step away from  reaching the PGA Tour .

Kenneth Bentley is the CEO of the APGA, which also cites setting members up for success in the golf industry and offering career development and mentoring opportunities to members in its mission .

APGA Tournaments

The APGA offered an elite tournament schedule in 2022 , with over $1 million in prize and bonus money across 18 tournaments. Four of those 18 tournaments had purses of $100,000 or more, including the $150,000 purse at the APGA Tour Championship. Every purse on the 2022 APGA Tour was at least $25,000.

In addition to offering a healthy financial prize for its players, the APGA competes on some of America’s most prestigious golf courses for professional golfers. 

Check out some of the top courses that hosted APGA tournaments in 2022 alone.

The APGA Tour season begins in January, with the Tour Championship typically held in August, even though events run into November. 

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Do APGA Tour Events Get OWGR Points?

Despite the elite lineup of courses and proven talent in its events, APGA tournaments do not receive Official World Golf Ranking points. Tournaments are typically two-day, 36-hole events, which do not meet OWGR criteria. As a result, some of the most recognizable names from the APGA Tour, don’t hold impressive OWGR rankings. For example, before embarking on his first full Korn Ferry Tour season in 2023, Willie Mack III ranked 3064th in the world, with an all-time best ranking of 1685. Kamaiu Johnson, another huge APGA success, also has an all-time best OWGR of 1685.

The Path From the APGA to the PGA Tour

Willie Mack III talks to media after the final round of Korn Ferry Tour Q-School

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In 2021, Willie Mack III earned a scholarship to Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying School by winning the 2021 APGA Tour Lexus Cup. While Mack’s Q-School bid came ended in the second stage in 2021, he made it all the way through in 2022 to secure his 2023 Korn Ferry Tour card.

APGA Tour Farmers Insurance Invitational

Since 2020, Farmers Insurance has hosted the APGA Invitational and the PGA Tour’s Farmers Insurance Open simultaneously at Torrey Pines, and in 2022, the event became the first-ever APGA tournament to be broadcast on national television, appearing on the Golf Channel. 

The tournament, which kicks off the APGA season in January, includes 18 APGA Tour players who qualified via the previous season’s Lexus Cup points list, and offers an enticing $100,000 purse and a $30,000 winner’s check.

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A Turning Point for the APGA Tour

The APGA Tour was built to provide professional playing opportunities for minority golfers. Against the odds, it has succeeded, but it now stands at a complicated crossroads.

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Ken Bentley has heard the praise before. He has been lauded about the wonderful things he is doing for golfers of color by giving them a professional tour on which to hone their skills. But in many instances, the same people who pat him on the back and hand him their business card later forget how to answer their phones.

So it was with learned wariness that Bentley listened to a man he had never met, Cisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins, heap plaudits on the Advocates Professional Golf Association (APGA) Tour during a banquet at TPC Sawgrass in the spring of 2021. The occasion was the inaugural Billy Horschel Invitational by the APGA, the circuit started in 2010 by Bentley and co-founder Adrian Stills with grant money and their own cash.

At the podium, Robbins, an avid golfer, spoke of being inspired by the APGA players and their aspirations. That’s when a voice rose from the crowd. “I’d like to hear more about that!” It was Bentley, obviously wielding a good-natured needle, but making a point still the same. Everybody laughed. Bentley and Robbins were seated at the same table, and when Robbins excused himself to catch a flight, he told Bentley he would be in touch. Another empty promise?

An hour later, Robbins called with an astounding offer: If the APGA could accept $500,000 in the next 24 hours, Cisco could cut a check for the donation. “I had to ask him to tell me again because I wasn’t sure I knew what was happening,” Bentley says with laugh.

That Cisco deal, which now includes tournament sponsorship and funding for five APGA playing ambassadors, has produced a stunning turnaround for a tour that teetered on the edge of existence and previously ended each year with a zero balance, at best. Farmers Insurance and Lexus signed on as supporters in the past four years, and they’ve been joined by World Wide Technology, the largest Black-owned company in America.

Today, the tour is almost unrecognizable from its early years, when tournaments were often played on well-worn munys and fields numbered in the couple dozen because even minority golfers had no idea the APGA existed. No one could possibly make a living on the tour or be prepared for the next level. Worse, the players from the early years will tell you they got plenty of disapproving stares when they showed up to compete, and some courses didn’t seem to care if they were there. As one oft-told story goes, a facility punched the greens between the two tournament rounds.

In contrast, 2022 has 17 events and $700,000 in prize money. Thanks to support from the PGA Tour, the APGA’s courses for its 36-hole competitions mostly have “TPC” in their title, and there are major-championship venues sprinkled in—Torrey Pines, Harding Park, Valhalla and, for the first time this year, a Baltusrol invitational event sponsored by Cisco. That venue lineup and the exposure the APGA has received should make any other mini-tour operator salivate. The first national TV bow was on Golf Channel in January when the final round of the Farmers Insurance Invitational was played Sunday at Torrey Pines after the Saturday finish of the PGA Tour’s Farmers Insurance Open.

Before that, in the summer of ’21, Willie Mack III became the APGA’s first standout to make the cut on the PGA Tour when he reached the weekend in the Rocket Mortgage Classic and John Deere Classic. The feat made headlines, and according to Bentley, there were 3,100 articles in which Mack’s name appeared, with a media value of $78 million. There’s not another mini-tour player who is even close to having that much street cred.

‘A LOT OF THESE YOUNGER GUYS HAVE NO CLUE WHERE IT ALL STARTED AND THE COURSES WE USED TO PLAY. IT’S A NIGHT-AND-DAY DIFFERENCE.’

“They have definitely come a long way,” says Tim O’Neal, 49, an icon in the Black golf community who is an original member of the APGA and has three victories on the Latinoamerica Tour with several dozen mini-tour wins. “A lot of these younger guys have no clue where it all started and the courses we used to play. It’s crazy to see that we’re playing Valhalla and the TPC courses now. It’s a night-and-day difference.”

Bentley believes the APGA was on the rise when the American people and U.S. corporations recognized the need to do more for the underserved after the May 2020 death of George Floyd and the civil unrest about racial inequality that ensued. “Golf was booming, and people were looking for ways to tie it to social justice,” Bentley says. “We had 10 years in when all of that happened.”

Bentley, 70, is a retired executive of 31 years at Nestlé who is the first Black person in the 94 years of Farmers Insurance to serve as chairman of one of its three exchanges. As someone who grew up in south central Los Angeles with seven siblings and a dad who worked three jobs to support them, he has a history of breaking barriers. In 1969, Bentley was the first Black member of the University of California Santa Barbara men’s tennis team, and he recalls the day one of the few Black professors at the school, Dr. Robert Norris, showed up at his dorm room with two expensive tennis rackets. “He didn’t know anything about tennis, but he said he wanted me to have the tools I needed to succeed,” Bentley says. “That was my early inspiration for wanting to help others reach higher levels in what they were passionate about.”

Bentley’s relationships at Farmers and the PGA Tour flipped the APGA’s fortunes. When Farmers CEO Jeff Dailey got interested in having a concurrent APGA event played at Torrey Pines during the Farmers Insurance Open, and the PGA Tour gave its blessing, the first event was played in 2020. Dailey sat in on a press conference in which Mack and Kamaiu Johnson shared their experiences of being homeless while trying to make it in pro golf. Dailey was floored. “I need to do something to help,” he told Bentley. The same week, Horschel met Mack for the first time during a clinic for kids, and the beginning of a valuable relationship took hold.

Johnson and Mack received sponsorship deals to wear the Farmers logo, and the company made a larger commitment to the APGA by sponsoring a four-event Fall Series that provided extra paydays and qualifying opportunities. This year, the Farmers Invitational had a $100,000 purse, with $30,000 going to the winner. It was eclipsed later by the Horschel, at $125,000 and $40,000.

Those numbers are startling to anyone who knows about mini-tour golf. APGA members pay $400 entry fees for full-field events, but other tours require $525 to $1,200, with total purses $45,000 to $75,000. The competition on other mini-tours is more fierce, too. Results from the APGA compared to the GProTour in the Southeast and the Golden State and Outlaw tours in California and Arizona reveal that winning scores are markedly different. In this season’s first seven APGA events, the average winning score for 36 holes was 5.4 under par. In 14 GPro events played over 54 holes, it was 16.5 under. The Golden State/Outlaw has staged seven two-round events, and the champions averaged 9.7 under par. Yes, the APGA is playing more difficult courses, but the pros on the PGA Tour or Korn Ferry Tour shoot in the low 60s at those places.

“I don’t want to feel like I’m pissing on anyone’s dreams, but I’m not going to sugarcoat it,” O’Neal says. “You have to look at the other tours and the other scores. If you aren’t shooting certain scores most of the time, or you’re not shooting in the 60s at your home course, it’s going to be a tough road.”

That’s the fundamental difference between the APGA and other minor-league tours. The APGA has supported its players through the years by providing them a place to play and sometimes rent money or entry fees or even medical care. Several players said they would no longer be playing competitively without that support. It’s a holistic approach, but Bentley now sees that for the tour to attain its goal of seeing its alums play on top-level tours, there needs to be more focus on the quality of the golf and what the players need to improve upon to shoot lower scores.

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The APGA has several new initiatives: a player development program funded by World Wide Technologies, a junior tour supported by Cisco and organized by the Cameron Champ Foundation, and a collegiate ranking that identifies the top five prospects coming out of school each year who will receive financial backing from the tour. The developmental portion became a must when Bentley realized that many of his players had never received formal instruction and were competing with clubs they bought off the rack. “That was crazy to me,” he says. Now, 11 players chosen each season are given travel money, paid membership dues, fitted clubs, new wedges every few months, instruction by top-level teachers and access to trainers and a noted psychologist, Dr. Thomas Parham, the president of Cal State Dominguez Hills.

The attention, money and success of the past few years have put the APGA at an enviable, if challenging crossroads. It has more players who want to join than its maximum of 70 members. The board must decide if it wants to keep upping the purses or devote more resources to developing prospects. Then there’s the question of what the racial makeup of the tour should be. The current membership is about 75 percent Black, 10 percent white, 10 percent Hispanic and 5 percent other.

At the Torrey Pines event in January, the tone of the Sunday TV broadcast was one of celebrating a new era for minorities in golf. Then a white player, Patrick Newcomb, who had conditional status on the Korn Ferry Tour, beat O’Neal by one shot. With no understanding that Newcomb qualified for the event on the strength of his APGA performances in ’21, critics got nasty on social media, unable to abide the result that didn’t fit the narrative. It wasn’t only them. The expression on the faces of the APGA leaders as they posed for a photo with Newcomb was thinly veiled deflation.

What few knew is that O’Neal recommended playing on the APGA to Newcomb. “Patrick is my friend, and he called me,” O’Neal said. “He said, ‘I’m getting a lot of negative press for winning that tournament; I wish I hadn’t won now.’ I felt bad for him. Patrick is a good-hearted guy. What did people expect to happen? It’s golf.”

There are likely changes coming to the APGA, such as more invitationals in which the organizers can control the makeup of the field, but Bentley remains steadfast that full fields on the APGA should be diverse and inclusive.

Beyond that, he is bullish on the APGA Tour’s future. “There will always be opportunities to help kids and young people who don’t grow up on a level playing field,” he says. “What I see is us not going away but getting stronger so we can help more kids.”

TREY VALENTINE

AGE: 29 • HOMETOWN: BOYNTON BEACH, FLA.

Growing up in a household in which both parents were sergeants in the Air Force, Trey Valentine could predict a couple of things about his upbringing: He would understand owning a sense of discipline, and he probably was going to see plenty of moving trucks parked at his curb.

From toddlerhood through high school, he and his family lived in Mississippi, Guam, South Dakota, Colorado, Virginia, South Carolina and Florida. Through those transitions, Trey used sports to make connections to new friends, and when golf became his focus after his dad, Fletcher, introduced him to the game, military courses served as his training ground.

“Golf was the one thing I was most competitive in,” Valentine says. “I was obsessed with the skill it takes and chasing that feeling of being perfect. Of course, there is no perfect in golf.”

After earning team MVP honors all four years of high school, Valentine played golf at the University of South Florida. He is among the top performers on the APGA Tour and one of its most recognizable players. A mop of curly black hair, sometimes with blond highlights, cascades out of his hat.

Trey’s parents retired from the military after serving 20-plus years, and he says he inherited his tenacity from his mom, Lisa. “My dad is really competitive,” he says, “but my mom is a whole different beast.”

While serving in uniform, both parents experienced challenges. Only recently, while they were in Scottsdale for an APGA event, did Fletcher tell his son about being fired at while serving in Iraq. “It’s a surreal moment when you realize a loved one was in such a dangerous spot,” Trey says. “He was fighting for our freedom. It was a moment when I felt so proud of him.”

MICHAEL HERRERA

AGE: 24 • HOMETOWN: MORENO VALLEY, CALIF.

On the same 18th green at TPC Scottsdale where Scottie Scheffler won the 2022 WM Phoenix Open two months earlier, Michael Herrera had a 30-foot birdie putt to win his first 36-hole title on the APGA Tour. His mind-set was that it was just another three-pointer that he had drained so often as a point guard in a basketball career that extended into college.

The result? Nothing but cup. Hand him the trophy. “I bring my competitive edge to the golf course,” Herrera says. “If it comes down to having seconds left and needing a basket to win, that translates a lot into golf. If I need to make it, I’m going to make it. I show up at the course with a different energy. I’m so used to playing a sport with contact that’s in your face. There is no holding back.”

Basketball was Herrera’s first sporting love, and he was one of his Southern California high school section’s top players. That led him to play at Riverside City College, but he was beginning to excel at golf, and his basketball coach introduced him to APGA founder and CEO Ken Bentley. The two played a round together, and everyone agreed his future was more promising on grass than hardwood.

Herrera was fascinated by golf as a kid, but his dad, Hugo, a building contractor who emigrated from Guatemala, didn’t see the point of playing. “He said it was a rich, white man’s sport. It wasn’t for us,” Michael says. But when Michael was 10, the two finally played at a par-3 muny that cost only $5, and from that first round both were hooked.

Michael turned pro at 21, and though he worked part-time at a golf course, his dad worked six and seven days a week to pay for entry fees. It was a rough go until all their lives changed by happenstance. Michael met Pro Football Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott at a celebrity golf event, and Lott was so taken by his personality and story that he pledged to sponsor Herrera. “Crazy lucky,” Michael says.

The support has freed up Herrera to play without worrying about finances. More profound is having an athlete of such renown believe in him.

“He knows how to take it to the highest level,” Hererra says, “and that’s what I want to do.”

AARON BEVERLY

AGE: 27 • HOMETOWN: FAIRFIELD, CALIF.

In a glimpse of the guts and independence Aaron Beverly has shown throughout his life, he didn’t pick the most popular pastimes growing up.

He began ballet at 3 and performed through high school.

Though he dabbled in golf, he didn’t get serious about it until in his teens. “I was much better [at ballet] than I was at golf,” he says with a laugh. “My mom wanted me to be a professional dancer.”

Beverly faced the tribulations that come with that, of course, and it didn’t get much worse than when he performed a ballet matinee and showed up at school still in his makeup. “Got ridiculed for that one,” he says. It didn’t matter. “My parents instilled that mental strength in me.”

The 6-foot-3 Beverly does relish crowds and attention, and his nature as a ham never served him better than in February 2022, when, as the recipient of the Charlie Sifford Memorial Exemption at the Genesis Invitational, he teed off at Riviera with host Tiger Woods standing a few feet away. “It was surreal,” Beverly says. “It was one of those things I had played in my mind so many times. I was hyperfocused in the moment. I look back at the video, and Tiger’s got his arms crossed, watching. It just seems fake. It’s a dream come true.”

Beverly is among the first APGA Tour players to earn his card on a PGA Tour-sanctioned circuit, reaching PGA Tour Canada this year.

He competes with one regret: His dad and mentor, Ron, a college football coach who died of cancer in 2019, isn’t around to soak in his son’s success. Aaron stopped playing golf for months after his dad died because the reminders were so painful.

“I’ve gotten to the point where I can now play golf and do it for myself while honoring him,” Beverly says. “It’s gotten to the point where it’s a beautiful thing.”

KAMAIU JOHNSON

INSPIRE ME “Tell your story,” says the APGA Tour’s Kamaiu Johnson, “to show what you can overcome.”

AGE: 28 • HOMETOWN: OVIEDO, FLA.

Kamaiu Johnson was homeless a few years ago. Now he’s running with corporate leaders on the course and in board rooms. Johnson grew up without much parental support, in Florida next to a municipal golf course.

When facility manager Jan Auger saw him swinging a stick in his backyard, she invited him to hit golf balls. Johnson became obsessed with the game and turned pro but had no cash backing and sometimes lived in his car. Playing on the APGA led to a sponsorship deal with Farmers Insurance and an exemption into his first PGA Tour event—the 2021 Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. But Johnson tested positive for COVID that week. It was devastating, but other tournaments were moved by his circumstances, and Johnson got exemptions into the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Arnold Palmer Invitational and Honda Classic. He was grateful, but three starts on elite tour venues coming off COVID were a “blessing and a curse.” Johnson shot in the 80s in three of his six competitive rounds.

“It was difficult, but I learned a lot,” he says, “and it made me hungrier to play in more of those events.”

Johnson got another life-altering surprise when he returned from Pebble Beach to learn he was going to be a dad. He and his partner of nine years, Reika Gideon, had their daughter, Riyah, in the fall. “I deal with my parents kind of abandoning me as a kid,” Johnson says, “not showing up at the course, not believing in my golf game. I don’t want my kid to go through that.”

His life is full of rich experiences and relationships now. On the course, Johnson has four top-fives, including a win at TPC Las Vegas, in his first seven APGA starts of 2022. “I say this to all of the guys on the APGA: Tell your story,” Johnson says, “not for somebody to show pity on you, but to show what you can overcome. I’ve been through all of this, and I’m still playing pro golf. It’s pretty amazing.”

MARCUS BYRD

AGE: 24 • HOMETOWN: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Some professionals playing on the APGA Tour for the first time face a jarring culture shock. They’re not accustomed to so many people of color joining them on the golf course. That was not the case for Marcus Byrd. He grew up outside of Washington, D.C., and from the age of 3, when his dad, Larry, introduced him to the game, his second home was the Langston Golf Course, an 83-year-old muny steeped in the heritage of Black golfers.

Each hole is named for an iconic Black player, and Byrd met many of them, including Jim Dent, Calvin Peete and Charlie Sifford. “At Langston, you’re around the people who are going through the same things you are, people who look like you,” Byrd says. “I wasn’t too aware that African Americans were such a minority in the sport until I started playing in tournaments. That’s a testament to how special the place is. Everyone was welcome, no matter your skin color.”

Byrd, who moved to the South with his mom during high school, was the 2013 Georgia State Golf Association Junior Player of the Year. From there, he got a scholarship to Middle Tennessee State, where he won twice as a senior and earned Conference USA’s Player of the Year award.

Those who watch the APGA regularly say Byrd is among its most gifted players, and he has seven top-three finishes the past two seasons, including a win at TPC Louisiana. One of his shots went viral early in 2022 when he smashed a driver off the deck to reach a 615-yard, par-5 hole in two at Torrey Pines.

Yet the challenges of mini-tour golf—and life—remain. Byrd’s dad died of COVID-19-related complications in 2020, and he doesn’t yet have the sponsor support enjoyed by some of his APGA brethren. “I can’t feel bad for myself,” Byrd says. “I just have to keep working and getting better. I’m doing the right things.”

‘FOR THE APGA TOUR TO ATTAIN ITS GOAL OF SEEING ALUMS PLAY ON TOP-LEVEL TOURS, THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE FOCUS ON THE QUALITY OF THE GOLF.’

AGE: 39 • HOMETOWN: CINCINNATI

The statement by Kevin Hall seemed melancholy at the time.

“People will always see me as Black and deaf,” he said in a 2006 interview. “I don’t think people will see me as just another golfer. It just won’t happen.”

To some degree, Hall might have been right.

Deaf since he was 2 because of a medication that saved his life during a bout with meningitis, Hall won the Big Ten individual championship while playing for Ohio State. It’s hard to separate himself from that distinction. But if you’ve seen Hall smile and flash his deep dimples, if you’ve heard his infectious laugh, if you’ve seen his mere presence create an aura in a room, you know that he’s much more than a couple of labels. The good thing is, Hall now recognizes that, too.

“The older I get, the more I understand that it’s very rare to have a Black, deaf golfer in the history of the game,” Hall says. “I’m the only one so far; people are interested in that. I learned to embrace that because I know it inspires others.”

With his parents, Percy and Jackie, traveling with him everywhere—dad caddies and mom often interprets—Hall has been on the road, mostly on mini-tours, for almost 18 years. He got a spate of exemptions on the PGA Tour and now-Korn Ferry Tour after the publicity of his stunning 11-stroke victory in the 2004 Big Ten tournament, but those opportunities have slowed to a trickle now. He has been a loyal player on the APGA Tour nearly since its beginning and has four career wins on the circuit.

“Every day the first thing I think about is, What can I do to get better? There’s a fire in my belly to keep trying,” Hall says. “As soon as I wake up and don’t have that feeling anymore, then I’m going to hang it up.”

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2022 APGA Tour at Scottsdale final results: Prize money payout, leaderboard and how much each golfer won

The 2022 APGA Tour at Scottsdale final leaderboard is headed by winner Michael Herrera, who earned the APGA Tour win at TPC Scottsdale in Arizona.

The 36-hole event was won on 4-under 138, with Herrera capping off his second round of 68 with a 30-foot birdie putt that he needed to pull into the lead.

Daniel Augustus finished second at 3-under 139.

Kendall Hodges, Rovonta Young and Tommy Schaff finished in a tie for third on 2-under 140.

Herrera won the $7,500 winner's share of the $25,000 purse.

APGA Tour at Scottsdale recap notes

Herrera earned his second win on the APGA Tour in 16 months.

Herrera is backed, in part, by NFL Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott , and he has conditional status on PGA Tour Canada.

NBC Sports commentator Notah Begay III entered the event and finished in 20th.

The APGA Tour continues on May 5-6 with Billy Horschel APGA Tour Invitational at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

2022 APGA Tour at Scottsdale final leaderboard, results and prize money payouts

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'Up and Down: Life on the APGA Tour': How to watch series about the 2022 season

The apga tour focuses on preparing african american and other minority golfers to compete at golf's highest levels.

CBS Sports and the Advocates Professional Golf Association (APGA) Tour are joining forces to bring golf fans an in-depth look at life throughout the season for players on the APGA Tour, which aims to bring diversity to the sport. The series will be narrated by GRAMMY Award-winning singer Darius Rucker and be broadcasted on June 11 at 1 p.m. ET on the CBS Television Network.

The special will also be available to stream on Paramount+ .

The APGA Tour, originally founded in 2010, is a non-profit organization that focuses on preparing African American and other minority golfers to compete at golf's highest levels. "Up and Down: Life on the APGA Tour" will highlight the journeys of multiple APGA Tour players, including Aaron Beverly, Kamaiu Johnson, Tim O'Neal and Trey Valentine during the first half of the 2022 season.

“That’s why I still grind, because I know it’s still there for me.” For Black & minority golfers, the @APGA_Tour provides a path to the dream: the PGA TOUR. This is “Up and Down: Life on the APGA Tour.” ( @Wagoneer ) June 11th | 1 PM ET | @CBS pic.twitter.com/Bgb8HvxF0a — GOLF on CBS ⛳ (@GOLFonCBS) June 6, 2022

"We are honored to partner with the Advocates Professional Golf Association (APGA) to highlight the many incredible stories on the APGA Tour," CBS Sports Vice President of Original Programming and Features Emilie Deutsch said in a press release. "CBS Sports is committed to utilizing our various platforms to increase diverse storytelling.

"We are excited to create awareness and tell the powerful stories of the players on the APGA as we to continue our ongoing efforts to showcase impactful content and shine a light on the many untold stories in Sports."

The APGA Tour will host 17 tournaments this season. That adds up to $700,000 in potential price money and almost $100,000 in bonus money throughout the campaign. In addition, the APGA Tour is also starting a Player Development Program that will "provide assistance both on and off the course to young minority golfers as they chase their goals in professional golf."

How to watch "Up and Down: Life on the APGA Tour"

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Begay back in action to learn more about APGA Tour

FILE - Golf Channel and NBC on-course analyst Notah Begay, left, talks with Charlie Woods, son of golfer Tiger Woods, as they walk on the 18th fairway analyst during the final round of the PNC Championship golf tournament, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020, in Orlando, Fla. Notah Begay III is competing in a tournament for the first time in nearly 10 years, and the score isn’t what matters to him. His appearance on the Advocates Professional Golf Association Tour in Arizona has been a mixture of inspiration and appreciation. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

Jennifer Kupcho, center, jumps in the water with her husband Jay Monahan, right, and caddie David Eller after Kupcho’s win in the LPGA Chevron Championship golf tournament Sunday, April 3, 2022, in Rancho Mirage, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Camilo Villegas, of Colombia, hits out of a bunker on the seventh green during the second round of the RBC Heritage golf tournament, Friday, April 15, 2022, in Hilton Head Island, S.C. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

Patrick Cantlay watches his drive down the ninth fairway during the final round of the RBC Heritage golf tournament, Sunday, April 17, 2022, in Hilton Head Island, S.C. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

Jordan Spieth watches his shot from a bunker on the 18th hole during a one-hole playoff at the RBC Heritage golf tournament, Sunday, April 17, 2022, in Hilton Head Island, S.C. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

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Notah Begay III is competing in a tournament for the first time in nearly 10 years, and the score isn’t what matters to him.

His appearance on the Advocates Professional Golf Association Tour in Arizona has been a mixture of inspiration and appreciation.

Begay, a four-time PGA Tour winner and now an on-course reporter for NBC Sports, was on the broadcast crew for the APGA Tour event on the Sunday after the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines.

“I was impressed by the caliber of play out there. I wanted to get to know more about the tour, the players, and what their objectives are going forward,” Begay said. “There’s no better way than to be a part of it.”

Back injuries cut short his career. Begay’s last tour event was in August 2012 at the Reno-Tahoe Open. He wasn’t sure what to expect on the Champions course at the TPC Scottsdale, though he acquitted himself nicely with a 1-over 72 on Monday and was tied for 16th in the 51-man field.

The final round was Tuesday.

Begay has always been about access, which includes his NB3 Junior Golf Tour, in which kids compete in tournaments throughout New Mexico and surrounding states, culminating with regional and national championships. Financial assistance is available.

“We didn’t say ‘no’ to one player,” Begay said. “This game has been saying ‘no’ for a long time.”

The APGA Tour began in 2010, established to prepare Black golfers and other minorities to compete and build careers on tour or in the golf industry. It has gained momentum in recent years with sponsor exemptions at PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour events, and with a schedule that is starting to include TPC courses for its 36-hole events.

The one at Torrey Pines on Sunday — the PGA Tour event ended on Saturday this year to avoid conflicts with NFL conference championships — was the first one to be televised live.

Begay was working and watching.

“I’ve been doing some research, just seeing the records they’ve had and where they come from,” he said Sunday evening. “I’m just trying to be more informed.”

Plus, the competition might serve him well. He turns 50 in September and will be eligible for the PGA Tour Champions.

PRESIDENTS CUP

The leadership for the International team in the Presidents Cup now represents every continent that make up the team facing the United States.

International captain Trevor Immelman (South Africa) announced Tuesday his four assistant captains will be K.J. Choi (South Korea), Geoff Ogilvy (Australia), Mike Weir (Canada) and Camilo Villegas (Colombia).

The matches are Sept. 22-25 at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Choi, Ogilvy and Weir are serving as assistants for the third time. The newcomer is Villegas, whose lone appearance in the Presidents Cup was in 2009 at Harding Park.

“Although it has been over 10 years since I played the event, I still have fond memories that are unforgettable, so joining on the other side as a captain’s assistant will be a highlight of my career,” Villegas said.

U.S. captain Davis Love III last week said Zach Johnson — the next Ryder Cup captain — and Fred Couples would be his assistants. He hasn’t announced the other two, though Love said Tiger Woods could have any role he wanted. Woods was captain at the last Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne in 2019 and chose not to return.

The International team has only one victory, in 1998 at Royal Melbourne, since the matches began in 1994. The 2003 event ended in a tie.

MISSION HILLS REPLACEMENT

Mission Hills lost the LPGA Tour’s first major to Houston under a new sponsorship deal. In its place will be a PGA Tour Champions event next year, the first tournament in the California desert for the senior circuit since 1993.

The PGA Tour Champions announced a partnership with healthcare company Grail to sponsor The Galleri Classic, named after Grail’s multi-cancer early detection test. The tournament will be March 24-26 on the Dinah Shore Tournament course at Mission Hills, which had hosted the LPGA Tour for 51 years.

That PGA Tour Champions was last in the Coachella Valley in 1993, when Raymond Floyd won the final edition of the Gulfstream Aerospace Invitational at Indian Wells. The PGA Tour has been in the Palm Springs area since 1960 in what began as the Bob Hope Classic and now is the American Express.

WHAT A HOOT

John Daly and his son now have an endorsement deal with Hooters.

Daly has had a long relationship with Hooters. John Daly II, a freshman at Arkansas, signed as a name, image, likeness ambassador. It’s the first NIL for Hooters. The company said Daly and son, who won the PNC Championship in December, will promote the brand through various marketing activities, such as social media and other digital channels.

“Hooters is the ideal place for me to go and unwind after a long day on the course or in the classroom,” Daly II said in a release. “I have seen my father’s great relationship with Hooters over the years, and I am proud to continue my family’s association with this iconic brand.”

The restaurant, which dates to 1983 in Florida, is famous for hiring young women as servers wearing skimpy uniforms. The menu specialty is chicken wings.

Just over a year after Anna Davis won her first AJGA title, the 16-year-old from San Diego County is about to make her LPGA Tour debut.

Davis earned national acclaim by winning the Augusta National Women’s Amateur three weeks ago as the only player to finish under par. She has received a sponsor exemption to play in the Palos Verdes Championship next week in Los Angeles.

The exemption came from Bank of America, the presenting sponsor of the Palos Verdes Championship. Bank of America also is one of the presenting partners of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur.

Also getting an exemption was Wake Forest junior Rachel Kuehn, who won the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge last month at Palos Verdes Golf Club, the host course of next week’s LPGA stop.

Davis, the left-hander in a bucket hat, has put together an impressive year. After winning that AJGA title, she recorded a seven-shot win in the Girls Junior PGA Championship at Valhalla and was named to the Junior Solheim Cup and Junior Ryder Cup teams. She has finished among the top four in all five of her World Amateur Golf Ranking starts this year.

Jordan Spieth and Under Armour have extended their partnership through 2029, meaning he will be with the Baltimore-based shoe and apparel company for at least the first 17 years of his career. Under Armour also is giving $1 million to the Spieth Family Foundation over the next eight years. ... Alexa Pano has turned pro and makes her debut on the Epson Tour this week in Utah. ... Texas teammates Cole Hammer and Pierceson Coody, along with Eugenio Chacarra of Oklahoma State and Sam Bennett of Texas A&M are among the 10 semifinalists for the Ben Hogan Award that goes to the top male collegian. Three finalists will be named May 5. Coody was a finalist last year. ... Augusta National Women’s Amateur runner-up Latanna Stone, Amari Avery, Megha Ganne and Emilia Migliaccio were chosen to fill out the U.S. team for the Curtis Cup at Merion on June 10-12. They join Rose Zhang, Rachel Heck, Rachel Kuehn and U.S. Women’s Amateur champion Jensen Castle.

STAT OF THE WEEK

Jordan Spieth was the seventh player this season to come from at least three shots behind in the final round to win on the PGA Tour.

“There always will be exceptions — Tiger still being able to win majors in his 40s, (Tom) Brady being able to win Super Bowls in his 40s. But I think in general, as a rule, careers will be shorter and guys will play better younger.” — Patrick Cantlay.

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Billy Horschel APGA Tour Invitational provides opportunity for minority role models to shine

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Two-day event held at THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – There are days when Jan Auger watches Kamaiu Johnson play golf and finds it difficult not to cry. Friday at THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass during the inaugural Billy Horschel APGA Tour Invitational presented by Cisco was one of those mornings.

Auger, general manager of two golf courses for the City of Tallahassee, frequently reflects to her chance meeting years ago with Johnson. As does he, and both are grateful the universe put them together. Johnson was a 12-year-old who already had dropped out of middle school in the small town of Madison. He did not have a father figure in his life, and had no direction. He was swinging a stick like a golf club, walking on the fringes near the fourth hole of Hilaman Golf Course, where Auger works, imitating the golfers he would see each day outside the two-bedroom unit he shared with his grandmother and six others.

Auger could have told Johnson that he was trespassing. She easily could have sent him on his way. Who knows how his life would have turned out but for a random act of kindness? She made him an offer from the heart. She sent him to the clubhouse, fetched a 9-iron and gave him a bucket of balls to hit. From there, Johnson was hooked. The club let him play for $1 a day, and it changed his life. Completely. Today, Johnson, 28, is a professional golfer, a man who rises each day chasing a dream. He started his own foundation (My My Foundation) to help introduce inner-city minority youths to golf. Johnson opened with a 1-under 71 on Friday, two shots behind leader Willie Mack III.

“He’s like my son,” Auger said as she watched Johnson play the back nine. Johnson lives in Orlando now, but the two talk or text most every day. “It’s emotional for me to watch him. I told him last week, we’re going to come and see you play, and I don’t care if you shoot wide receiver (high) numbers. I just love watching you play.”

This week at TPC Sawgrass, Johnson is competing among a select field of minority golfers (17 professionals and 15-year-old amateur Awesome Burnett comprise the field) in a two-day shootout, playing an event organized by Horschel, his management team and his generous sponsors under the umbrella of the 11-year-old Advocates Pro Golf Association Tour. The APGA was formed to try to make golf more diversified, and to provide playing opportunities that would help to develop Black golfers and other minority players to reach higher levels. Ken Bentley, a retired Nestle USA executive who serves as the unsalaried director of the APGA, once said that when he looks into his crystal ball, he sees “America out on the golf course. That’s our goal.”

Horschel, 34, is a successful PGA TOUR professional, a six-time winner with $28.2 million in career earnings who remembers his own humble lower-middle-class beginnings. He wasn’t always able to afford the junior tournaments he wanted to play. He acknowledges how financially challenging the game can be, and he is passionate about giving back. Know this: He doesn’t attach his name to any venture without diving in fully.

Horschel said he wants to see more minorities playing on the PGA TOUR in five or 10 years, and for that to happen, young golfers will need role models in order to make golf their choice. All efforts with his new tournament are aimed to help create those role models.

“These are the guys who are going to reach kids in the inner cities, to reach kids that have a different background than what mine is, of my skin color, and how I grew up,” Horschel said. “These players are how the game is going to be, and that’s how the game is going to grow.”

Horschel has been hanging around with players at TPC Sawgrass the last few days. He played in the pro-am and sat with players at lunch on Friday, answering their questions. He plans to work with a few on the practice tee. He is making sure that players will leave one of America’s iconic courses with more than just the memories of birdies and bogeys and how they performed on TPC Sawgrass’ famed island 17th. There was a pro-am for players to network with business executives on Thursday, and a business roundtable that featured big corporate hitters such as CEOs Jeff Dailey (Farmers Insurance) and Chuck Robbins (Cisco). Players rotated to different tables during dinner. This week is all about connections.

The golf is a great opportunity, too: Experience one of the best tests on the PGA TOUR each year, where all the great players have competed, and play for an $80,000 purse that includes a winner’s check of $25,000.

“We’re fortunate to be able to play pro-ams (on the PGA TOUR),” Horschel said. “You connect with sponsors and other people in the corporate world, and if you’re able to create relationships and grow them organically, then these people are going to want to help you with your dream of chasing the PGA TOUR.

“Maybe they’ll sponsor you. If that dream (to play) doesn’t come to fruition, those people who you have met, who you have created this relationship with, more than likely are going to be there to help you if you need to figure out that next path in life.”

Willie Mack III, who made the cut in his two most recent summer PGA TOUR starts (Rocket Mortgage Classic and John Deere Classic), shot 3-under 69 on Friday to take the tournament lead. Johnson, Troy Taylor II and APGA rookie Mahindra Lutchman, who recently graduated from Florida A&M University, will start Saturday’s final round two shots back.

Kevin Hall is one of the APGA’s more seasoned players at age 38, and has been with the APGA since the start. When the tour began, there were three events on public courses and total purses of $40,000. Hall shot 73 on Friday. Ten days earlier, a closing 63 at TPC John Deere in Silvis, Ill., lifted him to his first APGA victory since 2018.

Why still chase the dream? “Every morning I have fire in my belly,” he said. “What can I do today to get better? When I win, this game just pulls me back in.”

Hall is a huge inspiration and terrific role model. He is deaf, and answers questions through his saintly mom, Jackie, who translates a writer’s questions into sign language. Hall is a great barometer to measure how golf is doing as the sport tries to better diversify its playing field. He marvels at the quality of venues on this season’s schedule, which include courses that play host to big-time events. The APGA is at the home of THE PLAYERS this week, and earlier competed at Valhalla, site of four PGA Championships a Ryder Cup.

“To have a tournament at TPC Sawgrass … five, six, seven years ago, I never thought this would happen,” Hall said. “All 18 of us that are here are very blessed to have Billy and his sponsors do this.”

Mack, 32, from Flint, Mich., has seen momentum in his game this summer growing with each new opportunity. After missing the cut in his first two PGA TOUR starts, he played solidly for three rounds at the Korn Ferry Tour’s BMW Charity Pro-Am, shooting 66 in the third round, and played on the weekend at the PGA TOUR’s Rocket Mortgage Classic and John Deere Classic.

How different can life be in the big leagues? At the Rocket Mortgage, Mack tied for 71 st and collected $15,000. It’s nice to have some money in the bank. In order to keep his dream alive, Mack has slept in his car when finances were tight.

“I was excited when I heard about this event, not only for me, but for everybody else,” Mack said. “To play for that kind of money, and to play in this environment, it’s really special.”

For Mack, with each start at a big tournament, big venue, the lights do not seem to feel so bright, and the stage is not nearly as intimidating. His next step when the APGA season wraps up will be Korn Ferry Q-School, which can be a path to the PGA TOUR.

It’s just golf,” Mack said, smiling. “I’ve talked to Billy a lot, and Rickie (Fowler), played with them a couple of times. I feel I have the game, I just have to get those opportunities. When I do, I just need to play well, and to have fun.”

Fun wasn’t really on the radar on Friday for Awesome Burnett. He is a 15-year-old from Flower Mound, Texas, who doesn’t yet have his learner’s permit. On Friday, on an incredibly difficult test of golf, he struggled off the tee with the driver. For a player out of position, the Stadium Course can less forgiving than an IRS audit.

Burnett is a nice story though, a player to watch, and he has a long runway ahead as he takes his own journey in golf. He and his parents, Brittany and Mark (Awesome’s caddie this week), are immersed in the game. (“Even our family dog plays with golf balls,” Brittany says, laughing.) Already their son has made most every sports fans’ All-Name team. Awesome Burnett? It’s, well, awesome. There is purpose in the name.

Said Brittany, “I tell him all the time, you have a chance to wake up in the morning and be Awesome.” She and Mark also have a 13-year-old daughter named Amazing. Brittany smiles. “I tell her, ‘When you go to bed, you’re Amazing. And you’ll be Amazing when you wake up. You have no choice.’ So when Awesome is having some troubles on the course, I just tell him, ‘Go out and be Awesome. Be you.’”

Awesome shot 89 on Friday, losing a couple sleeves of balls in Stadium Course penalty areas. He hung tough, holing a beautiful pitch for birdie at 15 and hitting it onto the green at No. 17. It’s golf, and he is very, very young. He dealt with a neck injury earlier this year, and a growth spurt has pushed Awesome to nearly 6 feet to carry his 122 pounds. He’ll add muscle. He is getting used to swinging with his new body. Before Wednesday, he’d only seen the Stadium Course when he played video games at home. And despite a tough day, he was a happy kid at the end of it.

“I’ve been having a great time,” Awesome said. “It lets me see a lot of different things, meet people, and see what has to be improved in my game.”

Playing alongside him was Johnson, who offered encouragement when he could. Johnson has had his share of tough days, too. Johnson knows Awesome Burnett and others like him represent the future of golf. Johnson could only imagine trying to take on such a difficult test of golf at age 15.

“Fifteen,” Johnson said, pausing, thinking, looking back. “Kind of reminds me of how I was stepping out on the PGA TOUR this year.”

With that, he smiled. Fortunately, with opportunities such as this one so graciously hosted by Billy Horschel, things will only get better. Johnson finds himself in a pretty good place these days.

“He is such a good person,” Auger says as she stands in the shadows on a hot day and watches Johnson play. “Kamaiu could have gone down the wrong road, and he knows that. Golf saved him.”

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