Greater New Orleans teen Blagrove selected for PGA TOUR Champions’ PURE Insurance Championship

Ariana Blagrove heads to Pebble Beach this September

NEW ORLEANS – First Tee and PGA TOUR Champions announced today Ariana Blagrove will represent First Tee — Greater New Orleans when she competes in the 2022 PURE Insurance Championship Impacting First Tee. The event, in its 19th year, will bring teens from First Tee chapters to Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill Golf Course for the PGA TOUR Champions tournament, Sept. 20-25. The annual event, hosted by the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, is televised nationally on Golf Channel.

Ariana has been with First Tee — Greater New Orleans for four years. She is a rising senior at Ursuline Academy and has been playing competitive golf since 2015. This year, Ariana’s high school golf team made history for Ursuline Academy after winning the LHSAA Division II Golf State Championship. Ariana has a golf handicap of 4.4.

Throughout the week, the teens apply their character strengths and life skills learned from First Tee programs during the one-of-a-kind event where they are paired with a PGA TOUR Champions player and amateurs from the business world. Ariana Blagrove will compete for the Pro-Junior Team title. She will join 77 other teens from First Tee chapters across the country and – for the second year in a row – a participant from First Tee — Morocco. Participants were selected by a national panel of judges based on their personal growth and development through First Tee’s programs, as well as their playing ability.

The full junior field was revealed live on Golf Channel’s “Golf Today.” Several players and legends of the game helped surprise select participants with the news of their selection, including World Golf Hall of Fame Member Jack Nicklaus; PGA TOUR players Stewart Cink, Cameron Champ, and Austin Smotherman; PGA TOUR Champions player Ken Duke; and No. 1
APGA Collegiate Player and Duke University stand-out Quinn Riley.

“Congratulations to Ariana Blagrove, who has been selected to play and represent First Tee — Greater New Orleans on a national stage,” said Greg McLaughlin, First Tee CEO.

“Her hard work and commitment to academic and personal growth through our program has secured this opportunity. Thank you to our partners − PURE Insurance, PGA TOUR Champions, Pebble Beach Resorts, Monterey Peninsula Foundation and Golf
Channel − for their commitment to young people and helping us provide this opportunity to these deserving teens.”

This year’s field of PGA TOUR Champions players will feature World Golf Hall of Fame Members Bernhard Langer, Mark O’Meara, Vijay Singh, as well as three-time PURE Insurance Championship winner Kirk Triplett. Clint Eastwood serves as chairman of the PURE Insurance Championship.

Play will be conducted on Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill Golf Course on Friday and Saturday. The final round will be contested solely at Pebble Beach Golf Links on Sunday, where 23 First Tee juniors will compete based on their 36-hole performance.

The tournament will crown one male and one female First Tee Junior Champion on Sunday.

More than 1,000 teens from First Tee have played in the PURE Insurance Championship, experiencing the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet, play and be mentored by PGA TOUR Champions players and amateurs in the field.

“Supporting these incredible young men and women along with the great work of First Tee through this sponsorship is tremendously rewarding for our entire team,” said Katie Krum, Chief Marketing Officer at PURE Insurance. “I know firsthand the impact and value that participating in youth sports can have on one’s development, personally and professionally, so I am particularly proud to be part of an organization that lends support to such a worthy cause.”

First Tee is a youth development organization that teaches life skills and helps kids and teens build their strength of character through golf. The PURE Insurance Championship is one of several national opportunities provided by First Tee Headquarters to encourage and motivate participants as they progress through the program and toward higher
education opportunities. The junior field for 2022 PURE Insurance Championship can be viewed here.

For more information on the tournament, visit PUREInsuranceChampionship.com. To learn more about First Tee, visit FirstTee.org.

About First Tee — Greater New Orleans
First Tee — Greater New Orleans is one of 150 First Tee chapters across the U.S. and select international
locations. Its mission is to impact the lives of young people by providing educational programs that build
character and instill life-enhancing values through the game of golf. First Tee — Greater New Orleans
reaches kids and teens through programs delivered at 13 program locations. Learn more at firstteenola.org.

About Monterey Peninsula Foundation
Monterey Peninsula Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization which donates funds from the
proceeds of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on the PGA TOUR and the PURE Insurance Championship
Impacting the First Tee, a PGA TOUR Champions tournament. The Foundation focuses on improving the
quality of life in Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito counties.

About PURE Insurance
Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE) Insurance is a property and casualty insurance company
designed exclusively for successful, responsible families. We opened for business more than 15 years ago
with the goal of offering something different in the insurance space: a company focused on doing what’s
right for our membership (policyholders), one that promotes transparency and alignment of interests, and
delivers greater value.

Today, after growing at least 15% in each year since we began, we are the most awarded insurer in our
category, offer coverage in all 50 states that includes high value homeowners, automobile, collections,
watercraft, personal excess liability, fraud & cyber and flood to a membership of more than 100,000
individuals and families.

Pureinsurance.com | 888.813.7873

About PGA TOUR Champions
PGA TOUR Champions is a membership organization of professional golfers age 50 and older, including 34
members of the World Golf Hall of Fame. The Tour’s mission is to provide financial opportunities for its
players, entertain and inspire its fans, deliver substantial value to its partners, create outlets for volunteers to
give back and generate significant charitable and economic impact in tournament communities. Follow
PGA TOUR Champions online at PGATOUR.com, at facebook.com/PGATOURChampions, on Twitter
@ChampionsTour and on Instagram @pgatourchampions.

All events are televised in the United States, with most receiving complete coverage on Golf Channel, the
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coverage, and 200+ hours of live coverage distributed in 135+ countries and territories. Programming is also
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