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Woods donates $5 million for youth education center
Anaheim (California), Apr 18: Champion golfer Tiger Woods has donated $5 million to build a youth education center that`s expected to open next year.
Anaheim (California), Apr 18: Champion golfer Tiger Woods has donated $5 million to build a youth education center that's expected to open next year.
The Tiger Woods learning center will be free to youths 8-17 and include a 35,000-square-foot (3,150-square-meter) education center next to a 23-acre (9.2-hectare) site that will be used for golf instruction. The $25 million center will be open 12 hours a day and will offer math, language arts and science tutoring, as well as character development programmes. Woods, the top-ranked golfer in the world, plans to open other facilities over the next several years under the umbrella of the foundation that bears his name.
"It just blows my mind that this high school punk kid has a chance to give back where it all started," Woods said. "I play golf for selfish reasons. This is something I can do for other people."
The center will be at the H.G. "Dad" Miller Golf course in Anaheim, where Woods played as a student athlete at Anaheim's Western High School in the early 1990s.
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The Tiger Woods learning center will be free to youths 8-17 and include a 35,000-square-foot (3,150-square-meter) education center next to a 23-acre (9.2-hectare) site that will be used for golf instruction. The $25 million center will be open 12 hours a day and will offer math, language arts and science tutoring, as well as character development programmes. Woods, the top-ranked golfer in the world, plans to open other facilities over the next several years under the umbrella of the foundation that bears his name.
"It just blows my mind that this high school punk kid has a chance to give back where it all started," Woods said. "I play golf for selfish reasons. This is something I can do for other people."
The center will be at the H.G. "Dad" Miller Golf course in Anaheim, where Woods played as a student athlete at Anaheim's Western High School in the early 1990s.
Bureau Report