Stephen Curry Creates Howard University Golf Program: Reports

WASHINGTON, DC — Stephen Curry is in D.C. on Monday to announce the launch of Howard University's new collegiate golf team -- and it wouldn't have happened without a chance encounter earlier this year, according to a report.

The two-time NBA MVP joined Howard University President A.I. Frederick and Athletic Director Kery Davis to make the announcement. This would be Howard University's first-ever Division I golf program -- they had a Division II team that was discontinued in the 1970s.

Curry is a passionate golfer himself, so much so that he's even behind the mini-golf TV show "Holey Moley" on ABC. He also has his own golf-specific line of clothing with Under Armour.

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The Washington Post reports that the announcement stems from an encounter Curry had with a Howard student at a January screening of "Emanuel," a documentary about the 2015 shooting at a church in Charleston, S.C., that Curry produced. Otis Ferguson, a junior at Howard at the time, invited Curry to a round of golf, and in the conversation that followed Ferguson explained that he turned down an offer to play golf collegiately in order to attend Howard.

Struck by that conversation, Curry is now personally sponsoring the creation of both men's and women's teams at the historically black university, and he was in D.C. Monday to announce the new program.

Curry said the donation will be in the seven figures over the next six years, and Howard will raise an endowed fund in the meantime so the program can sustain itself after the money runs out, the Post reported.

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— FOX 5 DC (@fox5dc) August 19, 2019