VIRGINIA TECH Golf Guide | 2018 Edition

32 The Hokie men’s golf team has always been a valuable member of the Virginia Tech community, volunteering its time to help others on several occasions throughout the year. Among other events the past few seasons, the team takes a day away from the course each spring to visit the Shriners Hospital for Children in Greenville, S.C. The visit, arranged through the Virginia Tech Athletics Department’s Office of Student Life, is an opportunity for the team to “give back” to the community. The Hokies take posters of the team, Virginia Tech logoed golf balls, brochures and Hokie Kids Club T-shirts for every child at the hospital. They visit each room, spending time with many of the children who come to the hospital for daily treatments. In all, the team members have interacted with more than 100 kids and parents, talking and playing games, even using their own putters to teach the kids how to putt. IN THE COMMUNITY