Tiger Woods brought his commitment to education to West Philadelphia on Sept. 8 as he unveiled the Smilow Woodland TGR Learning Lab. The education center is part of a $150 million renovation of the historic Cobbs Creek Golf Course, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Cobbs Creek Golf Club, which opened in 1916, was one of the first courses in the region to welcome golfers of all races. It was also the home course of Charlie Sifford, the first Black golfer to earn a PGA Tour card, per the Philadelphia Business Journal. Woods, who calls Sifford “the grandfather he never had,” even named his son Charlie in his honor.
The 30,000-square-foot facility, a collaboration between the TGR Foundation, the Cobbs Creek Foundation, and the Smilow Foundation, is designed to do far more than teach golf. Students from grades one through 12 will have free, year-round access to programs in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math, along with college prep and career readiness initiatives. Woods, who co-founded the TGR Foundation in 1996 with his parents, Earl and Kultida, said, per the Philadelphia Business Journal, that the goal of the center is to “produce the greatest humans possible.”…