Mariah Stackhouse knew she was witnessing something special. It was the final round of NBA star Stephen Curry’s Underrated Golf’s first annual Curry Cup at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, site of the 2020 PGA Championship, in September 2022. “It was incredible to see what Steph and his team had done with the event for the kids,” Stackhouse says of the Underrated Golf program. “I could see how much they loved it. It was awesome seeing so many promising, young Black golfers in one space actually getting to compete on great golf courses.”
In the spring of 2022, four-time NBA champion Curry founded Underrated Golf, an all-expense-paid junior tour to help underrepresented players around the country pursue the game. “We are driven to open more doors for diverse players and balance participation in the sport to truly reflect our society,” Curry noted in a press release. Additionally, the Warriors’ point guard pledged to financially support and help establish a Division I men’s and women’s golf program at historically Black college Howard University for the 2020-2021 academic year, after 50 years without a team.
Stackhouse, a KPMG ambassador since her rookie season in 2017, knew after just a few hours of witnessing Curry’s event that…
