Aug
02
Posted By: Devin_Gmitter ยท
This past weekend several PGA Tour players arrived in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for the first annual Zach Johnson Foundation Classic held at Elmcrest Country Club to raise money for the Foundation's Kids on Course initiative. Kids on Course began in May of 2011, with a goal of raising $1.05 million dollars in its first three years to fund programs devoted to helping students achieve academic and personal successes at local schools.
For the event, Johnson set the fund raising goal at $250,000. However, an overwhelming response to the event and its cause doubled the charitable donation to over $500,000 dollars. In a selfless act, Zach and his wife, then, decided they would match every dollar raised with money from their own pocket, pushing the grand total to over one million dollars.
Zach's wife Kim later said, "The community stepped up so much...so we needed to step up in a big way, too. We want to give a good foundation to the Foundation. So we said: ‘This is the first year, let’s do it."
The Johnson's have been no strangers to helping those in need. In 2008, they held a fund-raiser to help those affected by flooding in their native Iowa. The outing raised over $350,000 dollars to aid in relief efforts.
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