Rocket Companies paid all player expenses, including travel, lodging and food, to remove barriers. A committee was created by marketing firm Intersport and the Woods and Watts Effect, to target the best candidates to play. The fields feature 21 professionals and 11 amateurs, ranging from ages 16 to 35. The four players who make up the second- and third-place teams in the Shippen will participate in a three-hole shootout after Monday's final round of play, the winning individual earning that exemption.Īveryhardt is one of four players with Michigan ties to receive invitations to the Shippen, along with recent Michigan State golfers Andrew Walker (Battle Creek), 22, and Troy Taylor II (Columbus, Ohio), 21, and Wayne State alumnus Joseph Hooks, 28. The John Shippen, named after the nation's first Black golf professional, also will award an exemption into the LPGA Tour's Cognizant Founders Cup in October. It's just nice to be able to play at the highest level, at Detroit Golf Club a couple days before the PGA Tour comes in." "We know how to play golf, we have instruction, we have the experience. Having an opportunity like this, it doesn't happen very often. "There's definitely a bigger number of us out there. "There are two current (Black) women on the LPGA Tour right now, and there are about five to seven women on the LPGA Symetra (development) Tour," Averyhardt said.
It's the first of its kind on the LPGA and PGA tours. The 36-hole tournament, created to open up opportunities for Black professional and amateur golfers, is Sunday and Monday.
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