Maverick McNealy – Birdies For Education

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ABOUT MAVERICK

I was born November 7, 1995 in Stanford, California, the oldest of four brothers (Dakota, Colt, and Scout). We all played ice hockey for the San Jose Jr. Sharks and competitive amateur golf.

I attended Stanford University from 2013-2017, earning a degree in Management Science and Engineering. While at Stanford, I set the school record for career scoring average (70.13), tied the school record for the number of individual wins (11), and spent 47 weeks as the world’s top-ranked amateur golfer. I also won the Fred Haskins, Ben Hogan, and Jack Nicklaus awards as collegiate player of the year, the Mark McCormack Medal as the world’s #1 amateur and the Byron Nelson award for golf, academics, and community service.

In 2017 I made my professional debut at the Safeway Open. I earned my PGA Tour card on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2019, and made three top-10s on the 2019-2020 PGA Tour season en route to finishing 68th in the FedEx Cup standings.

Maverick's Blog

MAVERICK'S GOALS FOR THE 2021-2022 PGA TOUR SEASON

400 BIRDIES AND REACH $1,000,000 FOR EDUCATION

RAISED SO FAR

$836K+

$ PER BIRDIE

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DONORS

Thank you to our donors!

BIRDIES

352 in Season 3! 60 Birdies at Fortinet, Shriners and CJ Cup!

BIRDIES

Maverick’s ROAD AHEAD

Birdies Season 4:
Zozo Championship

October 18-24, 2021, Tokyo, Japan
The Zozo Championship will be hosted by Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club in Chiba, in the Greater Tokyo Area of Japan. It is co-sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour and the PGA Tour. The tournament is the first event sanctioned by the PGA Tour in Japan, in a deal that will last until at least 2025. The tournament was moved in 2020 to California due to Covid-19. Like many Japanese golf courses, it has two greens at every hole. The course currently measures 7,224 yards and is a par 72.

Mayakoba Golf Classic

November 1-7, 2021, Playa del Carmen, Mexico
A Greg Norman-designed masterpiece, the Par-72, 7,024-yard El Camaleón blends through the diverse ecosystems of Mayakoba, including tropical jungle, dense mangroves, freshwater canals and pristine Riviera Maya oceanfront. The course’s signature hole, No. 7, is Par-5, 554-yards, and is just long enough to rule out most players from going for the green in two. This hole's most remarkable feature is the cenote (cave) playing as an enormous centerline bunker. If a player hits a driver, the cenote lies nearly 300 yards from the white tees, and the fairway in front of the cenote slopes downhill toward it so severely that well struck drives bound toward it.

Vivint Houston Open

November 8-14, 2021, Houston, TX
The Houston Open has been played at several Houston venues over 75 years. Memorial Park Municipal Golf Course hosted The Houston Open from 1951-1963, and it returned in 2020 after a Brooks Koepka and Jim Crane renovation. The Par-70, 7,432-yard course is Texas's top-rated municipal golf course. The signature hole is #15, with a 180-yard carry over a tree-lined pond with a fountain, to a green with a left side bunker.

2021-2022 PGA TOUR RESULTS


DATE	TOURNAMENT NAME	POS	SCORE	TO PAR	BIRDIES	FEDEX CUP RANK

October 14-17, 2021	CJ Cup	T38	273	-15	24	6
October 7-8, 2021	Shriners Hospitals for Children's Open	CUT	138	-4	8	5
September 16-19, 2021	Fortinet Championship	2	270	-18	28	2

Previous Season

JOIN ME AS WE ADVANCE THE STATE OF EDUCATION

To kick off my first season on the PGA Tour, I want to do even more to move the ball forward in education. I’ve been incredibly fortunate in my education and I believe that every student should have the benefits of a high quality education. And that’s why I’m supporting Curriki.

Curriki makes it possible for students in underserved schools to have the same high quality curriculum as the most prestigious schools. In doing so, Curriki has reached an estimated 200 million students around the world for more than 10 years and I know they’ll be able to make an even bigger impact on learning in the years to come.

I’ve been volunteering with Curriki since I was in high school, so it’s an organization that is very special to me.

Please join me in Birdies for Education!

– Maverick

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ABOUT BIRDIES FOR EDUCATION

Making a Difference in Education One Putt at a Time.

Birdies for Education was created in 2019 by PGA TOUR player Maverick McNealy to raise funds for education non-profit, Curriki.org.

Giving back. It’s what drives me to play my best game every time. Every kid deserves a solid, high-quality education and my fundraising campaign supports Curriki.org, a non-profit organization that is completely focused on making sure kids have opportunity to go anywhere and do anything they want in life. Even the PGA Tour.

In 2020, I am joined by fellow Stanford Alum, Brandon Wu.