This investment is already apparent, with big name sponsors lining up to fund junior golf tournaments.
As a child prodigy in Holywood, supported by parents Gerry and Rosie, who took multiple jobs to fund his golf, McIlroy was always destined to be a star.
Tiger Woods hosts a fund raising golf tournament called the Hero World Challenge, and its profits support community-based programs that improve the health, education, and welfare of all children in America.
There were five years of a fund-raising golf tournament for a scholarship in his name at York College.
As it happened, Mr. Becht was participating in a fund-raising golf tournament for Assemblyman Nick Asselta of Cape May, and his foursome won four of the games.
The previous week, Dr. Fontana had attended a fund-raising golf outing and taken part in a seminar on child protection at the Greenwich Village center named in his honor.
For those of us who attended a breast cancer fund-raising golf outing in New Jersey a week ago, the announcement soon after that Amy Mickelson has the disease seemed especially poignant.
There were meetings, and fund-raising golf tournaments, and more meetings, and grumblings about how even Rugby, N.D., the "Geographical Center of North America," had a 15-foot stone obelisk to mark the spot.
Among the other issues being looked at are whether the firm funded a golf course built by the Rigases.
How were they funding the golfing project?" "He told me he was a big success in England," he replies.
