United Airlines, PGA TOUR Team Up for HBCU Travel Grant Program

United Airways and the PGA TOUR teamed as much as announce the service would award 51 golf groups at Traditionally Black Faculties and Universities with greater than half one million {dollars} in grants to fund journey for golf tournaments and recruiting efforts.

Divided equally among the many colleges, the donations are a part of United and the PGA TOUR’s shared dedication to diversify and develop the game and supply assets that permit HBCUs to recruit and compete on the highest ranges.

Every faculty will obtain $10,000 in journey credit, enabling greater than 250 student-athletes, coaches and their gear to compete in high-profile tournaments beforehand out of attain.

“Eradicating limitations for HBCU college students to have the identical alternatives given to different collegiate athletes will open doorways for numerous younger Black golfers to realize their goals and for HBCU golf packages to develop to their full potential,” United President Brett Hart mentioned. “United is dedicated to advancing inclusion and racial fairness and that begins with making significant mentorship and scholarship investments within the communities we serve.”

The grants will permit every crew the chance to attend extra tournaments this season, together with occasions just like the PGA Works Collegiate Championship, Mardi Gras Golf Invitational and Black Faculty Golf Coaches Affiliation Houston Nationwide Invitational.

United is the Official Airline of the PGA TOUR and the group’s first sponsor to help the HBCU Grant Program. Along with journey grants, pupil athletes may have entry to mentorship and profession teaching from United staff.

The HBCU Grant Program will serve 51 present golf packages, together with:

Males’s Golf

Alabama A&M College

Morehouse Faculty

Alabama State College

North Carolina A&T State College

Bishop State Neighborhood Faculty

North Carolina Central College

Bluefield State Faculty

Prairie View A&M College

Chicago State College

Saint Augustine’s College

Elizabeth Metropolis State College

Savannah State College

Fayetteville State College

Talladega Faculty

Fisk College

Tennessee State College

Florida A&M College

Texas Southern College

Howard College

College of Arkansas-Pine Bluff

Jarvis Christian Faculty

College of Maryland Jap Shore

Johnson C. Smith College

Virginia State College

Kentucky State College

Virginia Union College

LeMoyne-Owen Faculty

West Virginia State College

Lincoln College

Wilberforce College

Livingstone Faculty

Winston-Salem State College

Miles Faculty

Girls’s Golf

Alabama State College

Lincoln College

Bethune-Cookman College

North Carolina A&T State College

Bishop State Neighborhood Faculty

North Carolina Central College

Bluefield State Faculty

Prairie View A&M College

Chicago State College

Savannah State College

Delaware State College

Tennessee State College

Fisk College

Texas Southern College

Howard College

College of Maryland Jap Shore

Jarvis Christian Faculty

Wilberforce College