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The sixth annual San Francisco Pride Golf Tournament will be held on Sept. 21 🏳️🌈 The story of how this inspiring and inclusive event came to be 👇

Jack and Barbara Nicklaus have announced Rickie Fowler as a new Play Yellow ambassador. Play Yellow is a Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals campaign to bring the entire golf world together to help the 10 million kids treated at local children’s hospitals each year.

“My overarching motivation with Folds of Honor Friday is creating an opportunity where we can honor those who serve and focus on the stuff that brings us together as Americans.”   Folds of Honor founder and two-time Top Gun recipient Lt. Col. Dan Rooney is teaming up with Memorial Golf to honor heroes following play at Muirfield Village on Friday evening by playing the national anthem, a tradition that will carry over to multiple TOUR events this season.

Coming soon … PGA TOUR Studios! First conceptualized in 2018 leading into media rights negotiations, as one of the largest production facilities of its kind in the Southeast United States, PGA TOUR Studios will become the one-stop shop for everything PGA TOUR media. The 165,000-square-foot facility is set to open in early 2025. https://lnkd.in/eeFWPu5j

A great read from CBC, with insight from our own Nelson Silverio II, on how hip-hop stars around the world are inspiring change in our sport. "Inclusion doesn't mean older white males get less," said Silverio. "It just means more for everybody. That's what hip-hop has helped us with — like what DJ Khaled is doing with his Let's Go Golfing apparel and catchphrase, and Drake and his NOCTA line. That's many people's entry point." 

The PGA TOUR has announced a multi-year official marketing partnership with Blackstone Products that names the outdoor cooking equipment provider the Official Griddle of the PGA TOUR and PGA TOUR Champions. The agreement, through 2028, will see Blackstone engage across the PGA TOUR landscape through content, player relationships and onsite activations at tournaments nationwide, introducing professional golf fans to the rising popularity of griddle cooking.