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Tiger Woods to open learning center this summer
Thursday April 17, 2003
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Tiger Woods has donated $5 million to
build a youth education center that is expected to open next year.
The Tiger Woods Learning Center will be free to youths 8 to 17
and include a 35,000-square-foot education center next to a 23-acre
site that will be used for golf instruction. The $25 million
facility will be open 12 hours a day and will offer math, language
arts and science tutoring, as well as character development
programs.
Woods, the top-ranked golfer in the world, plans to open other
facilities over the next several years under the umbrella of his
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.
(Copyright 2003 by The Associateor.
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