The inaugural NEXUS Cup hosted by Tiger Woods and benefitting TGR Foundation featured great golf, fine food and generous giving.
It also took place in an especially fitting and meaningful place.
Liberty National Golf Club boasts spectacular views of the New York City skyline, which, of course, was permanently altered by 9/11.
It was in the aftermath of the tragic events in 2001 that Woods had the idea to make a major alteration to his foundation.
Specifically, Woods had time to think while driving home alone from St. Louis to Orlando after that week’s WGC-American Express Championship was cancelled.
“[I realized] if I was here at the time, what would happen to the foundation? Well, it would be gone,” Woods said of his then golf-based charity, which was started in 1996. “There was really nothing sustaining it except for me to doing golf clinics.”
