THE JOHN SHIPPEN Nationwide Invitational hosts the nation’s prime Black men and women golfers to compete for 5 exemptions into LPGA and PGA TOUR occasions
- THE JOHN SHIPPEN Cognizant Cup can be performed Might 8 at Higher Montclair Nation Membership in New Jersey to providean exemption into LPGA’s Cognizant Founders Cup
- Ladies’s area performs June 6-7 at Blythefield Nation Membership in Grand Rapids for exemptions into the Meijer LPGA Basic for Merely Give and Dow Nice Lakes Bay Invitational
- Males’s area performs June 24-25 at Detroit Golf Membership for an exemption into the Rocket Mortgage Basic
DETROIT – Intersport has introduced the 2023 schedule for THE JOHN SHIPPEN Nationwide Invitational – a sequence of competitions created to supply enjoying alternatives on the PGA TOUR and LPGA for the nation’s prime Black women and men golfers. THE JOHN SHIPPEN Sports activities Enterprise Summit may also be held for the third time to deal with the shortage of illustration in enterprise and management roles throughout the enterprise of sports activities for individuals of shade.
Now in its third yr, THE JOHN SHIPPEN has hosted 76 Black golfers, awarded 9 enjoying alternatives on the PGA TOUR and LPGA and donated $320,000 to native charities, scholarships and fellowships. In 2022, SHIPPEN alumni achieved success past the Nationwide Invitational. Sadena Parks and Anita Uwadia made the reduce and completed T-36 on the Dow Nice Lakes Bay Invitational, and Willie Mack III and Tim O’Neal earned respective memberships on the Korn Ferry TOUR and PGA TOUR Champions through the autumn qualifying faculty (Q-College).
The occasions are named after John Shippen, Jr., who was each the primary American-born golf skilled and the nation’s first Black golf skilled.
“We’re excited to proceed to host the nation’s prime Black golfers and additional the momentum generated within the first two years of THE JOHN SHIPPEN, which noticed two gamers make the reduce and two extra earn membership on the Korn Ferry TOUR and PGA TOUR Champions. We wish to construct on the influence of the occasions as we glance to createmore year-round publicity and Black illustration in golf,” stated Jason Langwell, Govt Vice President of Intersport and the Govt Director of the Rocket Mortgage Basic. “The Intersport and Rocket Mortgage groups are obsessed with variety, fairness and inclusion, and we companion with organizations dedicated to creating a distinction with their mission. We’re thrilled to have the ability to present these proficient athletes and people with the standalone platforms they deserve — which goals to interrupt boundaries for proficient Black golfers and aspiring enterprise professionals.”
THE JOHN SHIPPEN Cognizant Cup has a brand new identify and placement, happening Might 8 at Higher Montclair Nation Membership in Clifton, New Jersey. The ladies’s contest of THE JOHN SHIPPEN Nationwide Invitational can be held June 6–7 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the lads’s competitors of THE JOHN SHIPPEN Nationwide Golf Invitational will happen June 24-25 at Detroit Golf Membership.
THE JOHN SHIPPEN Cognizant Cup is an 18-hole stroke play competitors happening Might 8 at Higher MontclairCountry Membership, the host venue for the LPGA Cognizant Founders Cup. The winner of the occasion can be awarded an exemption into the LPGA’s Cognizant Founders Cup (Might 11-Might 14), marking a continuation of Cognizant’s dedication to supporting equal alternative and variety within the recreation of golf and past.
“That is Cognizant’s third yr as part of the THE JOHN SHIPPEN Cognizant Cup,” stated Shameka Younger, World Head, Variety and Inclusion at Cognizant. “We’re obsessed with supporting this influential occasion and the position it performs in broadening illustration in golf. We’re happy to supply an extra on-ramp to extra Black feminine golfers qualifying for LPGA event play. Cognizant is dedicated to advancing variety and inclusion each in know-how and sports activities.”
The Ladies’s Invitational will return to its 2022 location. The 36-hole stroke play competitors can be held June 6-7 at Blythefield Nation Membership in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the house of the Meijer LPGA Basic. The winner of the occasion will earn an exemption into the Meijer LPGA Basic for Merely Give (June 15–18), in addition to an exemptioninto the Dow Nice Lakes Bay Invitational, the LPGA event scheduled for July 19– 22 in Midland, Michigan. The SHIPPEN winner will select a companion to compete alongside them within the Dow GLBI, which is a two-player group occasion. The 2022 Ladies’s Invitational Champion, Sadena Parks, selected 2021 winner Anita Uwadia to play alongside her within the group competitors, and the pair went on to make the reduce and end T-36 – making them the primary SHIPPEN champions to make a reduce ensuing from THE JOHN SHIPPEN.
“We’re excited to see our companion Blythefield Nation Membership host the ladies’s division of THE JOHN SHIPPEN Nationwide Golf Invitational in Grand Rapids once more this yr,” stated Cathy Cooper, Govt Director of the Meijer LPGA Basic for Merely Give. “The Meijer LPGA Basic shares this occasion’s dedication to variety and inclusion aimed toward empowering underrepresented teams on the golf course and in our communities throughout the Midwest. We’re happy to increase the winner an exemption into the Meijer LPGA Basic and see her again on the course this June.”
The boys’s portion of THE JOHN SHIPPEN Nationwide Invitational introduced by Rocket Mortgage will happen atDetroit Golf Membership June 24–25. Members will compete in a 36-hole stroke play competitors, and the winner willonce once more be awarded an exemption into the PGA TOUR’s Rocket Mortgage Basic (June 29 – July 2).
THE JOHN SHIPPEN was additionally created to deal with the shortage of illustration in enterprise and management roles in golf and throughout skilled sports activities for individuals of shade. In 2022, THE JOHN SHIPPEN Sports activities Enterprise Summit paired 350 highschool and school college students of shade with sports activities {industry} leaders together with representatives from CDW, the Detroit Pistons, the Detroit Lions, Entice Golf and Pensole Lewis School for a day of academic programming centered across the enterprise of sports activities. Dates and particulars surrounding THE JOHN SHIPPEN Sports activities Enterprise Summit in Detroit can be introduced within the close to future.
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About Intersport
Since 1985, Intersport has been an award-winning innovator and chief within the creation of sports activities, life-style, culinary and entertainment-based advertising and marketing platforms. With experience in Sponsorship Consulting, Experiential Advertising, Hospitality, Buyer Engagement, Content material Advertising, Productions and Sports activities Properties, this Chicago-based Advertising & Media Options Firm helps their purchasers to create concepts, content material and experiences that appeal to and interact passionate audiences. To study extra about Intersport, go to www.intersport.world, like us on Fb orfollow us on Twitter and Instagram.
About Woods & Watts Impact
Woods & Watts Impact is an fairness and inclusion consulting agency of transformation engineers, co- based by Sommer Woods and Michele Lewis Watts, Ph.D. They’re a solutions-driven group that adeptly designs packages that assess an organization’s strengths and areas for enchancment relative to inclusion and social fairness. Woods &Watts Impact is modern of their pondering, their engagement and their execution. By a daring, non-traditional and interesting strategy, they produce viable and actionable options for sustainable change. Extra data is out there at WoodsWattsEffect.com.
About Rocket Mortgage
Detroit-based Rocket Mortgage, the nation’s largest house mortgage lender and a part of Rocket Corporations (NYSE: RKT), allows the American Dream of homeownership and monetary freedom by way of its obsession with an industry-leading, digital-driven shopper expertise. In late 2015, it launched the primary totally digital, utterly on-line mortgage expertise. Since its founding in 1985, Rocket Mortgage has closed $1.5 trillion of mortgage quantity throughout all 50 states. In late 2015, it launched the primary totally digital, utterly on-line mortgage expertise.
Rocket Mortgage moved its headquarters to downtown Detroit in 2010. The corporate generates mortgage manufacturing from net facilities situated in Detroit, Cleveland and Phoenix.
Rocket Corporations, Rocket Mortgage’s mother or father firm, ranked #7 on Fortune’s checklist of the “100 Greatest Corporations to Work For” in 2022 and has positioned within the prime third of the checklist for 19 consecutive years.
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About Meijer
Meijer is a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer that operates 258 supercenters and grocery shops throughoutMichigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin. A privately-owned and family- operated firm since 1934, Meijer pioneered the “one-stop purchasing” idea and has developed by way of the years to incorporate expandedfresh produce and meat departments, in addition to pharmacies, complete attire departments, pet departments, backyard facilities, toys and electronics. For added data on Meijer, please go to www.meijer.com. Observe Meijer on Twitter @twitter.com/Meijer and @twitter.com/MeijerPR or develop into a fan at www.fb.com/meijer.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines world breadth; asset integration and scale; centered innovation and supplies science experience; main enterprise positions; and environmental, social and governance (ESG) management to attain worthwhile development and ship a sustainable future. The Firm’s ambition is to develop into essentially the most modern, buyer centric, inclusive and sustainable supplies science firm on this planet. Dow’s portfolio of plastics,industrial intermediates, coatings and silicones companies delivers a broad vary of differentiated, science-based merchandise and options for its prospects in high-growth market segments, similar to packaging, infrastructure, mobility and shopper purposes. Dow operates 104 manufacturing websites in 31 nations and employs roughly 35,700 individuals. Dow delivered gross sales of roughly $55 billion in 2021. References to Dow or the Firm imply Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. For extra data, please go to www.dow.com or observe @DowNewsroom on Twitter.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) engineers trendy companies. We assist our purchasers modernize know-how, reimagine processes and remodel experiences to allow them to keep forward in our fast-changing world. Collectively, we’re bettering on a regular basis life. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
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