August 12, 2020
New York, NY August 12, 2020: Teen golf phenom, Amari Avery, the reigning and defending California Women’s Amateur Golf Champion and the reigning and defending Southern California Golf Association (SCGA) “Women’s Golfer of the Year,” appeared Tuesday, August 11, 2020 on “ABC News Live!” During the 7:00PM EST and 9:00PM EST hours of the globally distributed program. Avery, one half of the “Avery Sisters” dynamic duo with her even more talented younger sister, fourteen-year-old, Alona Avery, is the youngest ever golfer, male or female, and is the first-ever African American golfer, to achieve either of the aforementioned distinctions.
Avery, interviewed during last week’s U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship at Woodmont Country Club in Rockville, MD by veteran Good Morning America (GMA) Senior Correspondent, ABC News Nightline Host, and new ABC News Live! PRIME Host, Linsey Davis, has been described by veteran PGA Tour champions, including a World Golf Hall of Famer and winner of multiple PGA Tour Major Championships, including The Masters, as “perhaps the best we’ve ever seen come along in the history of the women’s game.” See Avery’s hole out for eagle HERE.
Amari, who is fast becoming known by her first name alone, was born on not just the same day as Tiger Woods, December 31st, but also in the exact same hour and minute as Tiger Woods according to their respective birth certificates. Like Tiger Woods, she was born in the same county as he, i.e. Orange County, CA, is the product of an African American master golf instructor father and an Asian mother, and she had her first hole-in-one at the same course where Tiger Woods had his first hole-in-one, Heartwell Golf Course in Longbeach, CA, almost exactly 28 years apart to the day.
Avery has shattered many of Tiger Woods’ age group records on her rise to prominence in the sport of golf. Avery, having notched her first-ever professional tournament victory, playing as an unpaid amateur in a Cactus Tour event earlier this summer, is almost certainly the youngest ever Afrcian American winner of a professional golf tournament.
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When sixteen-year-old Amari and her sister Alona, appeared as golfer and caddy, respectively, at last week’s U.S. Amateur Championship, the pair made history as the first-ever pair of African Americans to play and caddy in the event.
When asked about her upcoming appearance on the ABC owned digital streaming platform, the precocious starlet was bursting with excitement, Amari said, “I grew up watching Disney movies and all of their cartoons and shows as a kid. I didn’t know what I was going to do with myself when they announced a couple of months ago that they were moving some of my favorite comedies from Tuesday to Wednesday this fall. A girl’s got plans, you know!” She jokingly was referring to ABC breaking up its industry-leading Tuesday comedy block for the first time in over a decade. “It’s such an incredible honor for me to appear on ABC. I hope they catch my good side and that the camera doesn’t add 10 pounds as I’ve heard it does” she continued self deprecatingly.
