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Someday when she has time, Shannon Heath-Longino just might write that book. She can tell about the time her grandmother rode in the back of a pickup truck, shouting into a bullhorn, ‘‘Y’all didn’t kill me. I’m still here," after her apartment was firebombed. About attending rallies in Washington, D.C., and watching her grandmother get arrested as she watched in a stroller. Or, the President and Congressmen her grandmother befriended during her quest to bring change to Atlanta. Someday, Heath-Longino may find the time. When she is not advocating for affordable housing for low income families and women's issues. Or speaking at national conventions. Or attending meetings for one of the three volunteer boards on which she serves. Someday, when she's not being a wife, mother of three and bank vice president. Maybe then Heath-Longino will have time to put pen to paper and tell the life story of her grandmother, Eva Davis, the dynamic Black woman living in one of Atlanta's most distressed housing projects who came to partner with the city's most powerful businessman, Tom Cousins, to transform East Lake Meadows into a mixed-income residential development that is a model for innovative urban planning nationwide. Heath-Longino lived that life with Davis, the woman she calls Mama, the woman who raised her from the time she was two weeks old until she was a senior in high school. And with everything she does today, Heath-Longino honors the legacy of her grandmother, who died of ovarian cancer in 2012. "She was a mom, not just to me and her family, but she was a mom to a community," Heath-Longino said. "She was a mom to a movement of betterment." Each year, when the TOUR Championship is played at East Lake Golf Club, as it is this week, the story of that movement, the revitalization of what was once a neighborhood with sub-standard housing and plagued by drugs and crime, is showcased. And Wednesday, prior to the start of the FedExCup Playoffs finale, the PGA TOUR will announce a $100 million commitment to support racial equality and inclusion. (East Lake) motivates people to … be beyond what society tells you that you can be. PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan announced the TOUR's efforts on Wednesday at East Lake Golf Club. They will be led by Marsha Oliver, the TOUR's Vice President for Community & Inclusion. "We are committed to using the TOUR's platform to focus on the systemic issues that are affecting the communities in which we play," Monahan said Wednesday. "Not all communities have the same needs or the same issues that lead to racial inequities - that's one reason change is so complicated - so we're being intentional in each market to identify the root cause of the issue and partner with those who we believe can most authentically and effectively bring about change. "One of the biggest ways you'll see us working is to re-target our charitable giving to nonprofit organizations whose services directly address the inequities and disparities that affect African-American citizens as well as underrepresented and underserved populations in the communities where we play." East Lake serves as a shining example of how golf can enact change in a community. Cousins, the Chair Emeritus of the East Lake Foundation, is proud of the work Davis started and Heath-Longino continues to do in her hometown. "While we have continued to work together to recognize and celebrate her grandmother's amazing legacy in East Lake," he says, "Shannon has become a force for change in her own right as a staunch advocate for affordable housing for low income families and equitable opportunities for students in East Lake and across the city of Atlanta." Community activism was something Heath-Longino learned early in life. As a toddler, she remembers boarding busses with Davis and various Atlanta civil rights leaders and going to Washington, D.C., to rally for women's welfare rights. "And there were a couple times I got arrested in the stroller with her," Heath-Longino says with a laugh. As an 8-year-old, she was operating a tape recorder and writing the minutes as he grandmother presided over the East Lake Meadows Residents Association. She helped with the rent strikes Davis organized that persuaded the Atlanta Housing Authority to fund a day care center, sidewalks and better streetlights there. She went door-to-door and campaigned for the candidates Davis supported. "She put me to work very early," recalls Heath-Longino, whose family was the second of 650 to move into the housing project when it opened in 1971. That number swelled to thousands when you consider how many people made up the families that lived in each apartment, and Davis made it a point to meet everyone. She organized building captains, who in those days before social media helped get the word out on tenant association meetings, food banks and other community activities. "So, her networking system became crazy where she didn’t have to leave the house to know what was going on, whether it was drugs being sold, prostitution, somebody getting killed, or the police," Heath-Longino says. "The residents trusted her, where her phone rang nonstop because she made it, gave everyone her phone number, even on the flyers." Davis' sphere of influence was wide and included President Jimmy Carter and the late Congressman John Lewis, among other politicians. Atlanta mayors Maynard Jackson and Andrew Young and civil rights pioneer Hosea Williams - who used to let Heath-Longino distribute turkeys to the families of East Lake from the back of a U-Haul truck - were frequent guests in Davis' home. Community involvement became second nature to Heath-Longino after watching her grandmother. "She taught me leadership, ... taught me individuality because what she did and what we do in life isn’t always popular. It’s not always accepted. It’s not always the cool thing," Heath-Longino said. "As a child, she wanted to make sure I had the confidence to know that the more you try to do what’s right sometimes that’ll mean the lonelier you will be." When the time came for the dramatic reimagining and redevelopment of East Lake, not everyone in the project was happy, though. Davis' apartment was firebombed by drug dealers twice in advance of tenants' association meetings, and Heath-Longino found herself standing outside, scared and shivering in the cold night air, with her grandmother. "I thought that would shut her up, but that ignited her, that put more firepower," Heath-Longino says. "We, her kids, were like, ‘Mama, can’t you just let it go?' "But she called someone with a pickup truck and got a bullhorn from somewhere. She rode around the neighborhood and got on the bullhorn and she told them, ‘Y’all didn’t kill me. I’m still here.'" Heath-Longino, then in her early 20s and serving on the East Lake planning committee, saw similar resolve from her grandmother when communication broke down with Cousins' team on the East Lake project. Davis didn't think the tenants were being included in the decision-making process about floor plans and carpet or whether to have gas or less expensive electric utilities. So she filed an injunction that halted construction for about a month. Finally, Cousins stepped in to resolve the impasse. One Sunday afternoon, he came to Davis' house, bringing a bottle of wine and "prawns that looked like drumsticks," Heath-Longino remembers. Davis asked her granddaughter to get Cousins a wine glass but said she'd make her own drink. She told Cousins he wouldn't be able to handle it. "He said, ‘Try me, Eva,'" Heath-Longino recalls. "And she said, ‘It’s moonshine.' And he said, ‘Well, I want the good stuff. I don’t want this. I want the good stuff. That’s the good stuff you got.' And that’s actually how the ice was broken, where they both laughed and got the drinks. "They started talking about business, talked about life. He must have stayed with her about four hours that day. It was just the two of them and me running back and forth to make sure if they had everything. "But I tell you that started a good friendship. And he kept up with her on a regular basis and that kind of mended things. He went back to his team and that moved everything forward, but that started a friendship, a lifelong friendship that the both of them kept until she passed." Heath-Longino, who served in the Army before graduating from Alameda College with a degree in sociology, calls Davis a visionary, a person before her time. But her granddaughter has taken Davis' mission into the present at East Lake and beyond. While Heath-Longino was bussed to schools in Buckhead from the fifth grade through high school, making a 30-mile trip that took two hours each way, her children, twin boys Caleb and Corbin and their sister Ckyla, are all alumni of the Drew Charter School at the Villages of East Lake not far from where she grew up. It's one of the highest performing schools in the Atlanta area and Heath-Longino serves as Vice Chairman on the Board of Directors. Three years ago, Heath-Longino partnered with the East Lake Foundation to start the Eva Davis Scholarship. To date, 27 Drew graduates have benefitted. Another source of pride was a years-long bureaucratic struggle to get the name of East Lake Boulevard SE changed to Eva Davis Way. "If I didn't do it - and she’s buried not too far from East Lake — she said every time I come down Candler Road, she'd jump out and scare … me," Davis' granddaughter says, laughing. A senior vice president at Truist Bank, Heath-Longino works in the Affordable Housing Finance/Asset Management Division. She has worked in the industry for more than 25 years and continues to be a voice for those her grandmother served who didn't have a place at the table. "Every neighborhood has a story," Heath-Longino explains. "And I want them to know our neighborhoods have stories. East Lake is my story. And East Lake is a big story, but there are other stories. And I just like people to take time to get to know the people in the story. "I just want it to really touch people who read it for years to come, because it motivates people who are the underdog. It motivates people who are born in circumstances beyond their control. It motivates people to not allow people to put them in a box. It motivates people to be their own circumstances and to challenge their inner selves, to be beyond what society tells you that you can be." Heath-Longino has regularly been among the fans at the TOUR Championship and sometimes plays the golf course along with other members of the East Lake Women's Alliance that she helped organize. It's a far cry from peering at what once seemed like "forbidden fruit" through holes in the green mesh fence that used to circle the course and picking up errant golf balls that felt like gold. There is more to the mission than golf, though. "It's a group of professional women who are decision-makers," Heath-Longino says. "They can be at Coca-Cola. They can be at the Falcons. They come from diverse backgrounds, but to basically let people know that the impact of the PGA [TOUR] and the impact of volunteerism, the impact of us as human beings. "No matter how well we do in life, there’s someone who’s always behind us who are in need. There’s someone coming behind us that doesn’t have the resources. And I was always taught you have to reach back and help those that are coming behind you because someone had reached back and helped me." Sounds like a good idea for a book.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - El PGA TOUR anunció hoy el calendario completo para su temporada 2020-21, la cual contará con 50 torneos oficiales puntuables para la FedExCup. Entre estos se incluyen 14 torneos que fueron pospuestos o cancelados a raíz de la pandemia del COVID-19. La campaña culminará el 5 de septiembre de 2021 con la coronación de un nuevo campeón de la FedExCup. Reflejando un incremento de un torneo con respecto a lo originalmente anunciado para 2019-20, el calendario cuenta con la mayor cantidad de torneos desde la temporada 1975, en la cual se jugaron 51. El U.S. Open, el Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship y el Masters, tres eventos que fueron pospuestos en 2020 y que se jugarán durante la porción de otoño del calendario 2020-21, volverán a sus fechas tradicionales durante la porción 2021 del calendario. Junto a ellos habrá otros 11 torneos que fueron cancelados y que no fueron reprogramados debido a la pandemia, entre ellos EL PLAYERS Championship. Adicionalmente, con la posposición de los Juegos Olímpicos de verano en Tokio en 2020, la competición Olímpica de golf masculino se realizará entre el 26 de julio y el 1 de agosto de 2021, programado por primera vez como el único evento en dicha fecha. "Estamos emocionados de presentar el calendario completo del PGA TOUR para 2020-21. Será una ‘súper temporada' de 50 torneos oficiales que cerraremos con la decimoquinta edición de los Playoffs de la FedExCup", dijo Jay Monahan, Comisionado del PGA TOUR. "Si usted es un fanático del golf, esta es una temporada de ensueño que tendrá más eventos significativos que nunca antes, incluidos los Juegos Olímpicos. Crear nuestro calendario siempre ha sido complicado, pero nunca más que en los últimos meses en los que hemos seguido lidiando con los retos generados por la pandemia del COVID-19. Apreciamos la gran colaboración de nuestros patrocinadores titulares, las organizaciones de los torneos y de las entidades que rigen el golf para poder llegar hasta aquí, dando conclusión a una extraordinaria temporada 2019-20 esta semana y en la víspera de una temporada de 50 torneos que comenzará la semana próxima". RELATED: Click here to print the 2020-21 PGA TOUR schedule Como se anunció previamente, la temporada 2020-21 comenzará durante la semana del 7 al 13 de septiembre con el Safeway Open en Napa, California. Será la sexta ocasión en siete años en que este evento sea el primero de la campaña desde que el Tour configuró su calendario para comenzar en el otoño. De seguido vendrán el U.S. Open (14 al 20 de septiembre) en Winged Foot Golf Club en Mamaroneck, Nueva York, un evento que será jugado en el mes de septiembre por primera vez desde 1913, y el también reprogramado Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship (21 al 27 de septiembre), el cual por primera vez otorgará puntos completos para la FedExCup (500). El Sanderson Farms Championship (28 de septiembre al 4 de octubre) precederá una serie de tres eventos en la costa oeste con la reubicación de dos de los torneos que son parte de la gira asiática del Tour. Tras la parada anual que se hace en Las Vegas para el Shriners Hospitals for Children Open (5 al 11 de octubre), vendrá THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES, evento que anualmente se juega en la Isla de Jeju, en Corea del Sur, pero que esta vez se jugará en Shadow Creek Golf Course en Las Vegas, en donde será llamado THE CJ CUP @ SHADOW CREEK (12 al 18 de octubre) por 2020. A la semana siguiente, el japonés ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP se jugará en Sherwood Country Club en Thousand Oaks, California, bajo el nombre de ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP @ SHERWOOD (19 al 25 de octubre) por 2020. El evento final del tradicional swing asiático y primer evento de los World Golf Championships de la temporada, el WGC-HSBC Champions ha sido cancelado. En vista de esto el Bermuda Championship (26 de octubre al 1 de noviembre) ocupará esa semana en solitario, otorgando puntos completos para la FedExCup. El Houston Open se jugará un mes más tarde de lo usual (2 al 8 de noviembre) y antecederá al Masters (9 al 15 de noviembre). El segmento de otoño del calendario concluirá con The RSM Classic (16 al 22 de noviembre), la semana antes del feriado de Acción de Gracias, y el Mayakoba Golf Classic (30 de noviembre al 6 de diciembre) la semana después. El Tour regresará con el Sentry Tournament of Champions (4 al 10 de enero) y mantendrá la misma secuencia que en 2019-20 hasta llegar a marzo, en vista del ajuste al número de torneos en el estado de la Florida. El Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard (1 al 7 de marzo) y EL PLAYERS Championship (8 al 14 de marzo) seguirán al WGC-Mexico Championship y al Puerto Rico Open (ambos del 22 al 28 de febrero), mientras que The Honda Classic (15 al 21 de marzo) se traslada a la semana después del PLAYERS. El Valspar Championship (26 abril al 2 de mayo), se jugaba tradicionalmente la semana después del PLAYERS, pero ahora concluirá el 2 de mayo, ubicado entre el Zurich Classic of New Orleans (19 al 25 de abril) y el Wells Fargo Championship (3 al 9 de mayo). Tras la cuadragésima edición de The Honda Classic, evento del Tour que cuenta con el mismo patrocinador titular desde 1982, el más antiguo entre los vigentes, se vendrá un tramo de ocho semanas que incluirá seis torneos que fueron cancelados y no se reprogramaron durante la temporada 2019-20 antes del PGA Championship. Desde el WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play (22 al 28 de marzo) hasta el AT&T Byron Nelson (10 al 16 de mayo), que se jugará por primera vez en el TPC Craig Ranch en McKinney, Texas. Entre los otros torneos que regresan al calendario se incluye el RBC Canadian Open (7 al 13 de junio), el John Deere Classic (5 al 11 de julio), el Open Championship y el Barbasol Championship (ambos del 12 al 18 de julio). La competición masculina de golf Olímpico (26 de julio al 1 de agosto) se realizará la semana después del 3M Open (19 al 25 de julio) y figurará por primera vez como el único evento en esa semana. De seguido vendrán el WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational y el Barracuda Championship (ambos del 2 al 8 de agosto), antes de que la temporada regular de la FedExCup concluya con el Wyndham Championship (9 al 15 de agosto). Los Playoffs de la FedExCup serán integrados por tres eventos: THE NORTHERN TRUST que regresará a Liberty National Golf Club en Jersey City, Nueva Jersey, su sede por cuarta ocasión; el BMW Championship se jugará por primera vez en Caves Valley Golf Club en Owings Mills, Maryland, en las afueras de Baltimore; mientras que el evento final de la temporada, el TOUR Championship en East Lake Golf Club en Atlanta concluirá el domingo 5 de septiembre. Además de Caves Valley Golf Club, sede del BMW Championship 2021, la temporada 2020-21 incluirá varias sedes nuevas y otras donde se ha jugado en el pasado. Como se anunció previamente, Shadow Creek Golf Course en Las Vegas y Sherwood Country Club en Thousand Oaks, California, recibirán torneos por una sola ocasión. Por su parte, el Houston Open se jugará por primera vez en Memorial Park Golf Course en el centro de Houston; el TPC Craig Ranch en McKinney, Texas, recibirá el AT&T Byron Nelson por primera vez; mientras que St. George's Golf and Country Club en Toronto, Canadá, volverá a ser la sede del RBC Canadian Open por primera vez desde 2010. En la rotación de los "majors" de 2021 figuran The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort en Kiawah Island, Carolina del Sur (PGA Championship), Torrey Pines Golf Course en San Diego, California (U.S. Open), y Royal St. George's Golf Club en Sandwich, Kent, Inglaterra (Open Championship). Kasumigaseki Country Club en Japón será la sede de la competición masculina del Golf Olímpico. 2020-21 FedExCup Regular Season (50 events)
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - The PGA TOUR today announced the complete schedule for the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season, featuring 50 official FedExCup tournaments - including 14 tournaments that were postponed or canceled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic - culminating with the crowning of the FedExCup champion Labor Day weekend in 2021. The schedule, which reflects a net increase of one tournament over the original 2019-20 schedule, features the most tournaments in a season since 1975 (51). Three events postponed in 2020 - U.S. Open, Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship and Masters Tournament - will be played in the fall portion of the 2020-21 season and again in their traditional dates during the 2021 calendar year, along with 11 tournaments that were canceled and not rescheduled as a result of the pandemic, including THE PLAYERS Championship. In addition, with the postponement of the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020, the men's Olympic Golf competition will take place July 26-August 1, 2021, as a standalone event for the first time. "We are excited to present the full 2020-21 PGA TOUR schedule - a ‘super season' of 50 fully sponsored events and capped off by the 15th edition of the FedExCup Playoffs," said PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan. "If you're a golf fan, this is a dream season with more significant events than ever before, including the Olympic Games. Building our schedule is always complicated, but never more so as over the past several months as we continue to navigate challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. We appreciate the extensive collaboration with our title sponsors, tournament organizations and golf's governing bodies that has brought us here - to the exciting conclusion of an extraordinary 2019-20 season this week, and on the brink of a season of 50 events, beginning next week." RELATED: Click here to print the 2020-21 PGA TOUR schedule As previously announced, the 2020-21 season will begin September 7-13 at the Safeway Open in Napa, California, which will serve as the season-opening tournament for the sixth time in seven years since the TOUR went to a wraparound schedule. The U.S. Open (September 14-20) at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York, follows, being played in the month of September for the first time since 1913, as well as the rescheduled Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship (September 21-27), which will award full FedExCup points (500) for the first time. The Sanderson Farms Championship (September 28-October 4) will precede a three-event swing on the West Coast with the relocation of two of the TOUR's Asia Swing events. Following the TOUR's annual stop in Las Vegas for the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open (October 5-11), THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES, annually played in Jeju Island, Korea, will be played at Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas, and will be renamed THE CJ CUP @ SHADOW CREEK (October 12-18) for 2020. The following week, Japan's ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP will be played at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California, and renamed the ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP @ SHERWOOD (October 19-25) for 2020. The final event of the traditional Asia Swing and the season's first World Golf Championships event, the WGC-HSBC Champions has been canceled, with the Bermuda Championship (October 26-November 1) occupying the week on its own and awarding full FedExCup points. The Houston Open moves a month later on the 2020-21 schedule (November 2-8) and precedes the Masters (November 9-15). The fall portion of the schedule concludes with The RSM Classic (November 16-22), the week prior to the Thanksgiving holiday, and the Mayakoba Golf Classic (November 30-December 6) the week after. The TOUR returns at the Sentry Tournament of Champions (January 4-10) with the same sequencing as the 2019-20 season until March, as there have been adjustments made to a number of Florida-based tournaments. The Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard (March 1-7) and THE PLAYERS Championship (March 8-14) will follow the WGC-Mexico Championship and Puerto Rico Open (both February 22-28), while The Honda Classic (March 15-21) moves to the week after THE PLAYERS. The Valspar Championship (April 26-May 2), traditionally played the week after THE PLAYERS, will now conclude on May 2, between the Zurich Classic of New Orleans (April 19-25) and the Wells Fargo Championship (May 3-9). After the 40th playing of The Honda Classic, the TOUR's longest-running title sponsored event dating back to 1982 - an eight-week stretch begins that includes six tournaments that were canceled and not rescheduled during the 2019-20 season prior to the PGA Championship, beginning with the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play (March 22-28) through the AT&T Byron Nelson (May 10-16), set to be contested for the first time at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas. Additional tournaments that return to the schedule include the RBC Canadian Open (June 7-13), John Deere Classic (July 5-11), The Open Championship and the Barbasol Championship (both July 12-18). The men's Olympic Golf competition (July 26-August 1) will be played the week after the 3M Open (July 19-25) as a standalone event for the first time and will be followed by the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational and Barracuda Championship (both August 2-8), before the FedExCup Regular Season concludes at the Wyndham Championship (August 9-15). The FedExCup Playoffs will consist of three events: THE NORTHERN TRUST returns to Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, New Jersey, which will host the event for the fourth time; the BMW Championship will be played for the first time at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, Maryland, outside of Baltimore; and the season-ending TOUR Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta will conclude on September 5, the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. In addition to Caves Valley Golf Club, host of the 2021 BMW Championship, the 2020-21 season features several new or familiar venues. As previously announced, Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas and Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California, will host tournaments for one year only. For the first time, the Houston Open will be played at Memorial Park Golf Course in downtown Houston; TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, will host the AT&T Byron Nelson for the first time; and St. George's Golf and Country Club in Toronto, Canada, will return as host of the RBC Canadian Open for the first time since 2010. Rotating major championship venues in 2021 include The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort at Kiawah Island, South Carolina (PGA Championship), Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, California (U.S. Open), and Royal St. George's Golf Club in Sandwich, Kent, England (Open Championship). Kasumigaseki Country Club in Japan will host the men's Olympic Golf competition. 2020-21 FedExCup Regular Season (50 events)
