Edmund "EQ" Sylvester

Edmund “E.Q.” Sylvester is a Director of the Western Golf Association (WGA) a member of several other prominent national golfing organizations, and a triple amputee. 

"E.Q." took a life-altering diagnosis and turned it into an opportunity for thousands of special needs individuals across the country" by founding the Freedom Golf Association (FGA), a 501(c)3 charitable foundation which later became the United States Adaptive Golf Alliance (USAGA) founded by Sylvester to broaden adaptive golf’s national reach. 

Sylvester is now focusing on including the disabled in the fabric of society through employment as Chairman of The Next Level Foundation.

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 Awards & Recognitions

2023 – Partner—Mayor’s Office for Persons with Disabilities (MOPD)

2022 – Certificate of Appreciation—Shriner’s Hospitals for Children

2021 -- USGA announces: 1st US Adaptive Open 

2020 -- Henry Viscardi Achievement Award

2020 – Partner-- PGA of America

2020 -- SPS Alumni Award

2019 -- Player Development Award                     

2015 – Dennis Walters Courage Award

2015— Business Development Award

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Mr. Sylvester has a BS degree in Economics from the University of Colorado and has taken a series of graduate business courses from NY University Business School. He lives in Burr Ridge, Illinois, with his wife of 61 years, Katharine, and they have three adult children and ten grandchildren.