January 24th, 2008, 08:38 PM
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Grand Slam
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: MA-USA
Posts: 2,627
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Re: Got a new bag, Callaway staff bag, but!
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After he played in Wednesday's pro-am, Sabbatini took advantage of another kind of opportunity as he visited the USS Boxer, a Navy assault ship. The South African and his wife, Amy, were there to donate $170,000 to United Through Reading, a non-profit that allows servicemen and women deployed aboard ships to read books aloud to their children on DVDs.
"One (of the servicemen) had a 22-month-old son and was in service over in Iraq and hasn't seen him for four and a half months, (and he) wasn't able to get his son and talk to him on the phone," said Sabbatini, who has two young children of his own.
"So through United Through Reading and through watching videos, his son talked to him, recognized his voice and recognizes him. It's unfortunately one of those things that we seem to forget about and we take for granted out here on the TOUR, and we were just fortunate that we were able to contribute to it."
The donation, which is the largest single donation ever to the program, also happened to match the amount of money Sabbatini won for last place when he withdrew from the Target World Challenge presented by Countrywide.
Sabbatini was criticized in the media for the early departure, which also was not well-received by the tournament host, Tiger Woods. Sabbatini, who is also generous in his support of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, said he felt Wednesday's donation was the right thing to do.
"We thought about it and we thought we'd put it to some good use," he said.
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