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Tiger Woods will mail it in this week

By Joe Gordon / Golf Notes
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Unless there is a last-minute change of heart, Tiger Woods’ presence at this week’s $7 million Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC of Boston in Norton will be limited to some type of video presentation.

Woods, the top-ranked player in the world, is still recovering from major knee surgery performed shortly after his victory in June’s U.S. Open in San Diego, accomplished essentially on one leg. He won’t play again until next year. Woods has been the headliner at the five previous Deutsche Bank events as his Tiger Woods Foundation is the chief beneficiary of the tournament. The PGA tournament, which starts Friday and runs through Labor Day, is in its second year as part of the four-tournament FedEx Cup playoff lineup.

Seth Waugh, CEO of Deutsche Bank Americas, said he fully understands why Woods won’t be on hand. “I never really expected a physical presence because he’s rehabbing and also because he’s such a competitor,” said Waugh. “I think it’s hard for him to come and watch. As he said, he couldn’t even watch the PGA Championship on television. So I think it’s hard for him to come to the field of battle without putting ‘his uniform’ on. I am not expecting a physical presence.”

Waugh said details of a Woods video presentation are being worked out. Obviously, there’s no substitute for having Woods in the field, but most, if not all of the top 120 players on the FedEx Cup points list will be on hand. Woods won the Deutsche Bank in 2006 and tied for second in 2004 and last year.cw0cw0

The top 144 players on the points list advanced into the opening FedEx Cup event, The Barclays, this weekend. The top 120 after today’s final round are eligible for the Deutsche Bank, where Ernie Els, ranked No. 7 in the world, will make his first appearance. The top 70 after the Deutsche Bank Championship advance to the BMW Championship from Sept. 4-7.

Defending Deutsche Bank champ Phil Mickelson, ranked No. 2 in the world, is also among those committed to the Norton field, as is No. 3-ranked Padraig Harrington, winner of the last two majors, the British Open and the PGA Championship.

TIGER WOODS HOSTS YOUTH CLINIC

BON JOVI AND TIGER WOODS CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF TIGER JAM, RAISE MORE THAN $1 MILLION

	5/29/07 12:17
	Bon jovi and Tiger Woods celebrate 10 years of Tiger Jam, raise more than $1 million LAS VEGAS – Celebrities including Will Ferrell, Kevin James, Chris Tucker, Gabrielle Union and opening act Daughtry joined golf superstar Tiger Woods and music legend Bon Jovi for Tiger Jam X presented by AT&T raising more than $1.5 million for the Tiger Woods Foundation and local charities. The event, held at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas Friday, May 25 and Saturday, May 26, marked the 10th Jam. Prior to the show, VIP guests attended the Tiger Jam X reception, which featured a thrilling live and silent auction. Popular items included a putting lesson with Tiger Woods at the 2007 Target World Challenge that raised $95,000 and a trip to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China garnered $125,000. Other hot items included a “meet and greet” and lunch with Bon Jovi, which sold for $64,000 combined, and a Buick Enclave autographed by Tiger sold for $50,000.

TIGER WOODS HOSTS YOUTH CLINIC 24 August 2004 by TWF Staff

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Tiger Woods will host his Foundation’s annual Youth Clinic on Aug. 28, 2004 at the H.G. “Dad” Miller driving range to raise awareness of the future Tiger Woods Learning Center (TWLC).
Scheduled to open in Spring 2005, programming at the 14-acre, 35,000-square-foot facility will focus on math, science and language arts and will serve local youth through day and after-school programs. Additional programming will open the Center to children nationwide during summers and weekends.
“I’m excited we’re bringing the Clinic to Anaheim and the Learning Center site,” Tiger Woods said. “It’s always a fun event and a great way to spotlight the Center and its mission of providing kids with a real connection between education and a bright future.”
Orange County youngsters will be joined by children from Allentown, Penn., Rockford, Ill., Fort Bragg, N.C., and Kingston, Jamaica to participate in the 2004 Tiger Woods Foundation Youth Clinic. The three-day junior golf event marks the 34th clinic held by the Tiger Woods Foundation since its inception in 1996.
The Youth Clinic will include 70 golfers from Allentown, Rockford, Fort Bragg and Kingston. Each of the cities will bring 15 junior golfers to the three-day clinic experience. Junior players will also be selected by the Tiger Woods Foundation and Disneyland Resort. The experience will include tickets to Disneyland, a pitch, putt and drive skills tournament, a junior golf clinic, and an exhibition by Tiger Woods at the Dad Miller driving range on Saturday, August 28.
The cities were selected to participate in the clinic through a formal bid process. The Foundation’s Junior Golf Committee view all bids and select the participating groups through detailed criteria that measures inner-city youth golf initiatives, community support and participation in local junior golf programs.
The Tiger Woods Foundation Junior Golf Clinic Series has hosted events in cities across the country since 1997. The clinics are targeted to underserved youth, ages 7-17, and their families. This year’s format combines local community clinics in Allentown, Rockford and Kingston with one three-day national event featuring Tiger Woods. Sponsors of the TWF Junior Golf Program include Disneyland Resorts and Mission Foods.
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The Tiger Woods Foundation empowers young people to reach their highest potential by initiating and supporting community-based programs that promote the health, education and welfare of all of America's children.

Tiger's Answer for Tough Courses
By Joel Rubin, LA Times Staff Writer August 29, 2004

When Tiger Woods finally arrived on the Anaheim driving range of his youth Saturday afternoon, he certainly didn't disappoint. With a sand wedge in his hand and a bucket of golf balls at his feet, the world's top-ranked golf professional told the crowd that he always warms up before a tournament with a little target practice.
He gestured casually to a metal sign 75 yards away on the range, aligned himself and took a swing. A collective gasp erupted into a roar as the ball plunked against the sign.
"Not bad, huh?" Woods said with a chuckle.
This time next year, however, a similar shot would likely crash through a window of an expansive education center planned by Woods and his foundation.
Construction begins next month on the Tiger Woods Learning Center, a $10-million, 35,000-square-foot complex on the grounds of the H.G. "Dad" Miller Golf Course, where Woods played as a student at nearby Western High School.
Scheduled to open in spring 2005, the year-round center will be free to all students from grades four through 12 and feature classrooms, a computer lab and 250-seat auditorium.
About 1,750 kids and parents from Anaheim and as far away as Jamaica packed the driving range bleachers Saturday for the largest of a series of clinics run by Woods this year. In previous years, Woods has held his clinic in Orlando, Fla., but moved it to Anaheim to draw attention to the learning center.
Before Woods arrived in a golf cart to the pounding beat of "Eye of the Tiger," a crew of Navy paratroopers skydived onto the driving range and Earl Woods, the chairman of his son's foundation, addressed the crowd, imploring parents to spend more time with their children and children to respect their parents.
Katherine Bihr, the center's recently appointed executive director, said she expects an after-school program to supplement classes in math, science and language skills. The center will also run school-hour classes for children on vacation.
Such classes, Bihr said, will be especially valuable for Anaheim's crowded schools, which run on year-round, multitrack calendars that constantly rotate groups of students in and out of school.
Bihr said she expects about 3,500 students a year to enroll in the center's programs.
Woods has donated $5 million of the $20 million raised to build and operate the center. Most of the funds has come from corporations such as American Express and Target. Foundation officials hope to raise another $5 million over the coming year.
And while the center will include sand traps, an 18-hole putting course and a driving range for students, Woods said the purpose of the center is to improve grades for all students, not correct hooks for aspiring golfers.
"Golf has never been my top priority and it never will be," Woods said Saturday.
"I was very fortunate to have teachers in my life that took the time to help me, and I want to build something that will give these kids the same opportunities."
Woods added that since conceiving the idea for the learning center two years ago, he had envisioned building it in an economically and social- ly diverse area like the one surrounding the Miller course.
Of course, the fact that the learning center will stand a 10-minute drive from where he grew up was a plus for Woods as well. "It's great to bring something like this home," he said.

Learning center is preparing to tee off
Tiger Woods visits site of Anaheim facility being built on golf course.

By JOHN REGER
The Orange County Register Sunday, August 29, 2004

ANAHEIM – The boss of the Tiger Woods Learning Center visited the facility that bears his name Saturday and was encouraged by the progress. The site, where construction is set to begin next month, is on the driving range at Dad Miller Golf Course. "This thing is coming together," said Woods of the facility about 10 minutes from his former Cypress home. "We are pretty excited about it. It is pretty neat to be able to bring people out here to showcase the learning center, get some excitement going."

The Learning Center is a project of the Los Alamitos-based Tiger Woods Foundation and will cost an estimated $25 million for the 14-acre complex. When finished it will include a 35,000-square-foot building focusing on math, science and language arts for kindergart ners through 12th-graders, as well as a golf facility that will have a driving range, chipping area and putting green.

The emphasis now is on the Learning Center, expected to be completed in 10 months. The center recently hired Katherine Bihr as executive director. The former principal and director at Vista View Middle School in Fountain Valley will be in charge of all educational aspects. "We are very excited that Katherine will be leading the charge," Woods said. "She possesses an excellent educational background, and I have no doubt that her leadership will bring the dreams for the Learning Center to life."Bihr's main duty is formulating the center's curriculum, expected to be one of the most innovative in the country.

"The beauty of it is that we are going to develop a curriculum that we think will be engaging and enriching for kids," Bihr said. "There is nothing that is set out there, but the possibilities are endless. In public schools you are limited to what you can offer in the classroom, because you must have standards-based adopted textbooks and you can't offer these extra programs if they are not aligned to those standards." Before Bihr was hired, a group of volunteers consisting of school superintendents, business leaders and Marian Bergeson, former California education secretary, offered suggestions for what should be taught at the center.

"We have been working for 9-12 months with the education plan from when we announced the center in December 2002," said Greg McLaughlin, president of the Tiger Woods Foundation. "We started exhausting 50 different collaborations with other partners." Those partners, according to McLaughlin, are the Anaheim and Magnolia school districts, which will provide students for the center. McLaughlin hopes the center can accommodate 3,000 children the first year. "The original platform was a really killer after-school program," McLaughlin said. "Educational programs, they can do homework, they can do projects, they can do whatever they wanted in that 2:30 to 6:30 (p.m.) window."

The program has evolved to working with students after school and during vacations and incorporating families from surrounding areas on the weekends. The center is expected to have personal computers for student use, but will have other tools as well. While the Learning Center is on a golf course and incorporates the sport into its program, golf is only a small portion of the center's mission. "It has been a consistent problem in convincing people that the function and objective is not to produce a new generation of golfers," said Earl Woods, Tiger's father and chairman of the foundation. "It's about personal growth. We want to develop role models for other kids."

The center is privately funded, launched with a $5 million donation from Tiger Woods. McLaughlin said businesses such as Target, Boeing, American Express, Buick and McDonald's have also contributed money. Of the $25 million needed, $20 million has been raised, he said. "I can tell you none of the money was easy with the exception of Tiger's first $5 million," McLaughlin said. "I think that in general any type of campaign like this takes time. I think once people see the merits of the program and ultimately what we are doing, people will want to get involved." Once construction starts, the foundation hopes to get more community support, he added.The world's most recognizable athlete said he will continue to work on his dream of the Learning Center and has a goal of setting up others across the country.

"We have a vision, we have a blueprint of what we want," Woods said. "If we want to do something like this somewhere else in the United States or around the world we have to do it right."

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