Tiger Woods names Aaron Beverly as recipient of Charlie Sifford exemption to play PGA Tour event
Tiger Woods has named Aaron Beverly as the recipient of the Charlie Sifford Memorial Exemption which will grant him entry to the 2022 Genesis Invitational.
(CNN)Tiger Woods has named Aaron Beverly arsenic the recipient of the Charlie Sifford Memorial Exemption which volition assistance him introduction to the 2022 Genesis Invitational.
The Charlie Sifford Memorial Exemption is awarded annually and represents "the advancement of diverseness successful the crippled of golf."
Woods is the big of the Genesis Invitational, wherever Beverly volition beryllium entered into the 120-player tract for his PGA Tour debut.
"Receiving the Charlie Sifford Memorial Exemption and having the accidental to play successful The Genesis Invitational is simply a existent grant and the accidental of a lifetime," Beverly said.
"This is the infinitesimal each my hard enactment and dedication has been preparing maine for and I look guardant to competing astatine Riviera."
Beverly has astir precocious competed connected the Advocates Professional Golf Association (APGA) Tour and successful November, won the APGA Tour's Fall Series finale astatine Wilshire Country Club. He was 1 of lone 3 players to interruption par during the two-round autumn series.
In what was his archetypal twelvemonth connected the APGA Tour, it was a stop-start season, aft a bout with Covid-19 caused him to suffer astir 17 pounds.
Beverly's quality astatine the Riviera Country Club successful California betwixt February 17-20 volition beryllium his archetypal astatine a PGA Tour event.
"I americium beyond excited to denote that I volition beryllium playing successful my archetypal PGA Tour event," said Beverly successful an Instagram post.
"This is thing my dada and I would speech astir each azygous day," added the 27-year-old Beverly successful his post. "I cognize he'll beryllium watching implicit maine with the biggest grin connected his face."
'Hey I won a tournament'
Beverly graduated from Sacramento State University successful 2017, according to the university's athletics website.
Just earlier his Sophomore play was astir to start, Beverly discovered some his parents had cancer, according to the State Hornet.
"It was hard for him," Beverly's parent Kim told the State Hornet. "He was supportive of some of america and helium stepped backmost and took a break.
"I deliberation it helped him to recognize that beingness is precious and that you person to travel your dreams due to the fact that you don't cognize what is going to happen."
Beverly's begetter Ron died successful September 2019.
"I think, for me, the bigger benignant of affectional effect was not being capable to telephone my dada and conscionable archer him that, 'Hey I won a tournament,'" Beverly told the Haggin Oaks website aft his occurrence astatine the APGA Tour's Fall Series finale.
"I'm looking guardant to welcoming Aaron Beverly to The Genesis Invitational arsenic the 2022 Sifford Exemption," Woods said.
"Like me, Aaron learned the crippled from his dad. I cognize Charlie Sifford would beryllium arrogant of Aaron arsenic helium makes his PGA Tour debut astatine Riviera adjacent month."
The exemption has been handed retired yearly to a "golfer representing a number background" to assistance them entree to the Genesis Invitational.
It was renamed to grant Charlie Sifford, the archetypal Black nonrecreational golfer, successful 2017.
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