Chanda Moore didn’t set out to change golf — she set out to find a place where her son could belong. Malik, who has autism, struggled in other sports where he didn’t feel included. So Moore built her own space: the Swing Chic Foundation, a nonprofit working to knock down golf’s old reputation as a rich man’s game.
The foundation runs a special-needs golf program, scholarships for girls on its team, and financial help for players chasing the sport at a higher level. Moore’s goal, plain and simple: make golf more inclusive — for women, for people with intellectual disabilities, for players of color, for anyone the sport has historically shut out.
That mission came to life recently at a special-needs tournament in Coweta County, one of the first of its kind held there in years. Players worked on their swings, cheered each other down the fairway, and celebrated the bad shots almost as loud as the good ones. Watching her son laugh and crack jokes on the course — doing the things she once worried he’d never get to do — Moore says it brings her to tears more often than not.
One golfer summed up the whole afternoon simply: everybody’s there to have fun, no fussing, no fighting.
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