NAPLES, Fl — The Jimmy Garvin Legacy Foundation, an organization dedicated to youth education through golf instruction, is coming to the Sunshine State and, to many Floridians this is no surprise.
A Press Conference will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 26, 2008 at the Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce in Naples, Florida to announce the Jimmy Garvin Legacy Foundation’s efforts to raise money for youth education.
Garvin, his wife Lana, and his Florida associates, along with the Langston in the 21st Century Foundation of Washington, DC, will all outline their plans to provide educational and life-skills to minority youth linked with golf, youth clinics, workshops and mentoring. Plans include a fall charity golf tournament at The Ritz Carlton-Tiburon Golf Course in Naples on October 10-12.
“It’s like coming home to share my experiences with kids,” says Garvin who was born in Immokalee, Florida. From humble beginnings, Jimmy Garvin graduated from Immokalee High School and he graduated from Howard University in Washington, DC where he attended on a baseball scholarship. An injury caused him to develop a new love— golf.
He now operates and owns golf courses in the Washington, DC area, and directs educational and golf programs for youths. His wife Lana, herself a graduate of Howard University, specializes in the learning centers.
Many of their protégées have gone to college on golf scholarships and they want to do the same here.
For further information about sponsorship of the golf tournament, how to play in the tournament or how you can help youth education, contact Cheryl Seals-Gonzalez at (239) 653-9493, or Carlene James at (239) 821-2641 who are assisting with establishing the Jimmy Garvin Legacy Foundation and the Jimmy Garvin Southwest Florida Scholarship Golf Invitational.
