Third Installment of the Series Will Air on Wednesday, Aug. 23 at 9 PM, ET, on CBS Sports Network

CBS Sports and the Advocates Professional Golf Association (APGA) Tour, a non-profit organization committed to bringing greater diversity to the game of golf, will present a new installment of Up and Down: Life on the APGA Tour, providing an in-depth look across five distinct stories of various experiences of golf in Black America in an hour-long special.

Premiering on CBS Sports Network on Wednesday, August 23 at 9 PM, ET, the special will follow five golfers as they embark on their professional and personal pursuits. Established in 2010, the APGA Tour’s mission is to prepare African American and other minority golfers to compete and win at the highest level of professional golf, both on tour and in the golf industry through professional tournaments, career development and mentoring sessions. The show follows the lives and stories of several APGA Tour players, including:

• John Baptiste Hakizimana, a native of Kigali, Rwanda, originally learned to play golf using a stick and rock. After losing his father and three of his siblings during the Rwandan genocide of the 1990’s, Hakizimana immigrated to the United States and became a caddie at New York’s Maidstone Club. Now, he is living out his dream as a professional on the APGA Tour.
• Joseph Dent, son of Jim Dent, Sr., one of the best Black golfers to play on the PGA TOUR and PGA TOUR Champions, continues his father’s legacy on the APGA Tour, with the goal of one day following in his father’s footsteps to the PGA TOUR.
• Wyatt Worthington, a top player on the APGA Tour and only the second Black PGA Class A Teaching Professional to play in the PGA Championship attempts to make the cut at the 2023 PGA Championship for the first time in his career.
• Aaron Grimes is an APGA professional looking to take his game to the next level. Originally from Compton, California, he has taken on the mission of restoring his hometown golf course to its former glory for his community.
• Troy Taylor II is a recent Michigan State University graduate and an up-and-coming star on the APGA Tour. Fueled by his dreams of success on the golf course, Taylor hopes to become a role model for others as he partakes in his first professional APGA event. Coming from an athletic family, his father, Troy, played basketball at Ohio State. Joined by former teammate Clark Kellogg, who has served as a mentor to Troy II, the three men explore their tight knit relationship over a round of golf and discuss the pursuit of diversifying the game.

Up and Down: Life on the APGA Tour is produced by Blake Berson with Brian Davis and Nancy Devaney. Emilie Deutsch is Vice President, Original Programming and Features, CBS Sports. Harold Bryant is Executive Vice President, Production, CBS Sports.

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