Golf’s gift for giving | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

In the reasons why I love this sport, let me include, near the top of the list, yesterday.

Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of a charity event begun by former ATT employee Mike Marion and my wife, Julie, on the sad occasion of one of their colleagues, Steve Cox, becoming ill with a cancer usually found only in children. That first year, Mike, Julie and six friends, including Geoff Russell, the editor of Golf World, played a golf marathon to raise money for Steve’s home hospital bed. (Steve wrote a very funny note thanking the eight and noting what a tremendous sacrifice it must have been for all them to go out and play golf all day.)

And every fall they did it again, even after Steve had succumbed to cancer at the ungodly age of 32, the event at one point encompassing seven courses and some 700 golfers. (Yesterday, …