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The second day of the week-long PGA Champions Tour’s Allianz Championship event will feature a free open-to-public youth golf clinic with Dennis Walters, host of The Dennis Walters Golf Show, a Last Golfer Standing competition with Don Law of the Boca Raton-based Don Law Golf Improvement Center, and the opportunity for 36 young, but certainly not green, South Florida junior golfers who have been selected to team up with golf legends including Mike Goodes, Fred Funk, and Bernhard Langer for a wide variety of on-course experiences. The Allianz Championship Junior Day will tee-off Tuesday, February 16th at 10:30 a.m. with a one-hour Dennis Walters Golf Clinic, an 11:30 a.m. “Last Man Standing Putting Contest” hosted by Don Law, followed by the Junior play with pros beginning at 12 Noon at The Old Course at Broken Sound at located at 1401 NW 51st Street (Yamato Road) on Old Course Way in Boca Raton, FL. The entire day is open to the public and admission is free.
Getting the day in full swing with a complimentary golf clinic will be Dennis Walters, one of only 11 honorary lifetime members of The PGA of America, a club that includes three former U.S. Presidents: Eisenhower, Ford and George HW Bush. The PGA of America presented him with its highest honor: The Distinguished Service Award in 2008; previous recipients include, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Byron Nelson and Gene Sarazen. Currently Walters serves as spokesperson and national ambassador for The First Tee which is dedicated to providing young people of all backgrounds and opportunity to develop, through golf and character education, life-enhancing values learned through the game of golf, such as honesty, integrity and sportsmanship. The goal of First Tee is to provide the golf learning facilities and the experience that will enable every child to partake of a game that teaches values for life and which can be played for a lifetime.
About Dennis Walters, PGA of America Distinguished Service Award Recipient Dennis' dream was always to play successfully on THE PGA TOUR. He had an accident in 1974 that left him paralyzed from the waist down. After his accident it was looking pretty bleak for that dream. Dennis found there were a lot of things he couldn't do, but there was no way he was giving up playing golf and thus with this never say die attitude a new career was born. The first thing Dennis had to figure was a way to play golf again. Since he could not stand, he started by hitting golf shots from his wheelchair. He then progressed to a swivel seat mounted on the passenger side of a golf cart and since 1977 he has traveled the country telling his story and encouraging others to reach for their dreams, strive for excellence and do something they didn't think they could. Dennis uses his own personal experience as an example to challenge each person in the audience to do something in their life that perhaps they thought was impossible, for with hard work, dedication, perseverance you can achieve success at anything. The Dennis Walters Golf Show is a one hour combination of golf mastery and human inspiration. It is great golf, great fun, and a great message. The show is also about dreams and as Dennis says in every show, "I'm not talking about a dream you have at night. To me a real dream is having a positive thought in your head and in your heart and doing whatever it takes to make that come true. Also, if you have a dream and it doesn't work out, never stop dreaming; get a new dream!" For more information, visit www.denniswalters.com. |
