Though strain has been utilized to golf tournaments in Georgia to relocate after the passing of a controversial voter invoice, the PGA Tour mentioned this week it would proceed to carry the ultimate occasion of the FedEx Cup Playoffs in Atlanta.
Nonetheless, based on a press release from the Tour, “our intention to stage an occasion in a selected market shouldn’t be construed as indifference to the present nationwide dialog round voting rights. The PGA Tour totally helps efforts to guard the precise of all Individuals to vote and to get rid of any obstacles that will stop residents’ voices from being heard and counted.”
This follows a name from the Nationwide Black Justice Coalition to pull the Masters from Augusta National Golf Club in reaction to the recent passing of Georgia’s voter invoice, SB 202. The NBJC can also be urging skilled golfers to boycott taking part in in Georgia till the invoice is repealed.
The Masters is run by Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership, nonetheless, and is simply loosely affiliated with the PGA Tour. The subsequent main Tour occasion within the state would be the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Membership in early September.
Main League Baseball has announced it will move its All-Star Game out of Atlanta after the state passed the bill, an motion that commissioner Rob Manfred on Friday mentioned is the “finest method to exhibit our values as a sport.”
Right here’s the total observe from the Tour:
On the coronary heart of the PGA Tour’s charitable mission is a dedication to serving and supporting communities the place we play, throughout the nation and world wide. In Georgia, this dedication has resulted in additional than $38 million generated for native charitable organizations because the Tour Championship—our season-ending occasion—moved to Atlanta in 1998. The Tour Championship’s dedication to East Lake has helped our companions rework distressed neighborhoods into wholesome and thriving ones, which is a key to ending the cycle of intergenerational poverty.
The charitable and financial advantages which have led to those substantial modifications wouldn’t proceed if we merely walked away from these in want. We intend to keep up our dedication to the East Lake Basis, Grove Park Basis, Goal Constructed Faculties Atlanta and First Tee of Metro Atlanta by staging the Tour Championship on the East Lake Golf Membership in September, and we’ll work with our group companions to proceed to ship much-needed assist and affect constructive change.
Nonetheless, our intention to stage an occasion in a selected market shouldn’t be construed as indifference to the present nationwide dialog round voting rights. The PGA Tour totally helps efforts to guard the precise of all Individuals to vote and to get rid of any obstacles that will stop residents’ voices from being heard and counted. It’s the basis of our nice nation and a important nationwide precedence to take heed to the considerations about voter suppression—particularly from communities of coloration which have been marginalized up to now—and work collectively to make voting simpler for all eligible residents.
In the meantime, the PGA of America additionally launched a press release in regards to the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship, which is scheduled for Atlanta Athletic Membership this fall.
The KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship is a partnership between three organizations dedicated to variety, fairness and inclusion: PGA of America, LPGA and KPMG. Like many entities, we’re monitoring developments associated to the brand new state laws on voting entry. We consider elections needs to be accessible, truthful and safe, and assist broad voter participation.
