On September 10, Freedom Golf hosted four Wounded Warrior Project alumni from the Chicago chapter, along with four of their guests and four Wounded Warrior Project staff members. Freedom Golf hosted the attendees at the United Airlines Fairway Club and accompanied them to various points out on the course, watching practice round play and receiving autographs from PGA Tour Pros. The event served as an introduction of FGA to the Wounded Warrior Project alumni and launched Freedom Golf’s Wounded Warrior Project Fall Program.
Freedom Golf’s Wounded Warrior Fall Program begins September 28 with a two-hour adaptive golf clinic designed exclusively for Wounded Warrior Project alumni. The program continues with two “Get Out & Play” dates, October 19 and November 2, where Wounded Warrior Project alumni can play eighteen holes of golf with a FGA Adaptive Golf Coach and continue to receive on-the-course instruction.
Also at the BMW Championship, on September 11 Freedom Golf,
with the support of the BMW Championship, its staff and the Lake County
Community Foundation, brought youth participants from Western DuPage Special
Recreation Association and Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association to the BMW
Championship Junior Clinic. Vince Pellegrino, Vice
President of Tournaments for the Western Golf Association, worked with FGA
providing admission to the Freedom Golf group. FGA’s participants watched Pro
Am play and received autographs from PGA Tour pros such as Rickie Fowler, Lee
Westwood, Nick Watney, Kevin Stadler and more.
The BMW Championship Junior
Clinic was led by PGA Tour professionals
David Hearn and Jason Kokrak and was held on the tournament’s driving range.
The clinic ran about 60 minutes, and included
discussion on golf fundamentals as well as hitting demonstrations.
