4 The HBCU Advocate Editorial What I learned about Steph Curry while walking with him at the Ellie Mae Classic


3-over through my first 11 holes was pretty solid.” Te lead in the tournament,


aſter the first round, was shared by three players. Adam Long, Seth Reaves and Samuel Del Val all scored 63 to finish 7-under par. For the second round, Curry


I had an opportunity to walk BY ANGELA JONES


inside the ropes with Steph Curry recently while he played in the Ellie Mae Classic on the Web.com Tour at TCP Stonebrae in Hayward, California. Te NBA’s first unanimous


MVP winner in history shot an impressive 71 in the first round this year, aſter a 74 – 74 showing on Tursday and Friday in the same tournament last year. Curry started the first round


this year on the 10th hole. Tat is the same hole where his tee shot ended up in a cup that was in a golf cart, last year. Tis year, his tee on shot landed near a sprinkler head prompting Curry jest,


to exclaim in “I can’t play this hole without


getting a ruling.” “Awesome day,” is how Curry


summed up his play aſter finishing the round. “Obviously I came in with high expectations based on how I played last year. We just wanted to play better. I started off the round and I got a little rattled on the back nine (he started on the back nine). Ten, going into the front nine on No. 2, a couple three putts and I was able to right the ship from there.” “I think I hit every green on the


back almost and gave myself plenty of opportunities, which was pretty cool.


I just have to make couple


more putts tomorrow and see what happens, but I think the way I was able to turn it around aſter being


was again paired with Web.com Tour winners Martin Trainer and Cameron Champ. Although he did not play as well in round 2, walking with him on the course revealed a great deal about the type of person he is and what makes him such an amazing athlete. Te first thing I noticed about


Curry, who recently welcomed his third child into the world about a month before the tournament, is how important family is to him and how important he is to his family. Both his mother and his father came to the tournament to watch him play. Tey reside


in North


Carolina. His father former NBA player, Dell Curry, said that Steph is a better basketball player and golfer than he is. He also revealed that the only new piece of equipment that he believed Steph acquired since last year was his golf bag because he had to add another championship trophy on it. Last year his bag only displayed three trophies . Te second thing I discovered


about Curry while walking inside the ropes with him was that he likes to have fun. Although his game play was not going well, he lightened the mood while waiting for the players ahead of him to clear the hole. He could oſten be seen dancing while waiting for his group’s turn to tee off.


that Curry takes


One cannot help but notice commitment


seriously. He is committed to the Warriors organization and takes every opportunity to show his commitment. Whether giving it his all on the basketball court


during a championship game or playing in a golf tournament to help raise money for the Warriors Foundation, his commitment does


not waiver. Aside from making people


laugh with is dance moves, Step Curry does not shy away from an opportunity to crack a joke. During the press conference aſter the second round of the Ellie Mae Classic he did not miss an opportunity to slip in a couple of wise cracks. When asked how much time he had to prepare for the tournament since his team had recently won the NBA Championship and he just had a new addition to his family, Steph’s response made the press gathered around chuckle. “I just had a baby, It seems like every summer I have a baby. Maybe one of these years I will not have a baby during the


summer.” Finally, one of the most


noticeable things about Steph Curry is his generosity. Whenever he has an opportunity to give, he does. Whether he is giving his autograph to a kid, giving a kind word about the head of Warriors


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security during his MVP speech or money to a family battling cancer, his generosity seems to know no bounds. Steph Curry announced during the tournament that he would be donating $25,000 to the GoFundMe page of Scott Harrington, a fellow golfer, and his wife Jenn, to help with medical bills as she fights Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Curry said he called Harrington earlier to tell him about the donation: “It was a good conversation this morning that I had with him. just to let him know how, obviously everybody out here on the Tour, and everybody I’ve talked to that knows him, says so many great things about him and his family, and are thinking about him during the tough time right now.”


Although Steph Curry did


not play well during the second round of the Ellie Mae Classic, shooting an 86, anyone watching, received an unforgettable lesson about family, fun, commitment, humor and generosity from one of the greatest men to ever play basketball or golf.


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