Starting a Golf Tour and Playing on the APGA

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

This episode focuses on the APGA Tour, which seeks to bring greater diversity to golf by helping African Americans and other minorities to gain access to careers in the game. First, Andy speaks with APGA founder Ken Bentley about how he started the tour, what his original goals were, and what the tour has become. They also touch on some stories of APGA players. For the second half of the episode, APGA Tour and PGA Tour Canada member Aaron Beverly joins Andy to discuss his life in golf (57:45). Aaron talks about how his years of experience in ballet helped his game, and about his path from watching Tiger Woods every weekend as a kid to winning the Charlie Sifford Award and joining Tiger on a panel.

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0:00.0	I'm Mr. Green, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
0:05.0	And when I find my ball in a fried egg.
0:07.0	Fried egg. The dreaded fried egg.
0:09.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:10.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:11.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:12.0	I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.
0:30.0	Welcome back to another edition of the Fried egg golf podcast. I am your host, Andy Johnson.
0:41.0	Today we've got an awesome episode. This is really senders around the APGA tour, which for those that do not know is a tour that's really focused on inclusivity and diversity in the game of golf at the highest level at professional golf.
0:58.0	So the APGA tour has been around for over a decade. It was all started by Ken Bentley. He's the first of our two guests. We also have Aaron Beverly.
1:09.0	Ken goes into just kind of starting a golf tour. What his original goals were and what has become it's become something really pretty incredible.
1:20.0	And you know, become a great place to play and a great place to develop diverse talent in the game of golf, which I think is super important.
1:30.0	Our second guest is Aaron Beverly. Aaron Beverly played on PGA tour Canada as well as the APGA tour this year.
1:39.0	Great guy lives in Sacramento, met him earlier in the year and wanted to get him on the pod to just talk off in his career.
1:48.0	So I spent this week Sunday through Tuesday out at the APGA event down in Pebble Beach. It was the Cisco invitational.
1:59.0	It was it was the it was a historic event in terms of the APGA. It was played at Spanish Bay in spyglass.
2:07.0	And it was the first ever 54 whole event for the APGA and it had the biggest purse ever in APGA history, $150,000.
2:16.0	$50,000 went to the winner, which was Wyatt Worthington. You probably recommend recognize that name from the PGA championship. He's qualified for a number of PGA championships.
2:28.0	He has 64 in the final round at Spanish Bay, which for anybody that's been out there, there are disasters waiting at every turn there.
2:38.0	It is a really tricky golf course, a really uncomfortable golf course. And 64 is a really great score there to win.
2:46.0	He beat a slew of players. There's there's a lot of talent. I played I played in the program, which was it was kind of cool.
2:55.0	It was during the round of golf. It was during the second round of the tournament. So I was playing with with a couple guys Marcus bird, as well as Jared Garcia.
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