Camilo Villegas Ups "Eagles for St. Jude" Commitment

by Ryan Ballengee on Jan 9, 2009 10:15 AM EST

I do some occasional feel good pieces over here at Waggle Room. This is one.

Camilo Villegas decided to increase his financial commitment to the Eagles for St. Jude program, in partnership with Stanford Financial. He will now donate $5000 for every eagle he cards on the PGA Tour this season. That pledge matches that of Vijay Singh.

Last year, Villegas pledged $3000 per eagle, but wound up donating $30,000 in total.

Stanford donates $1000 for every eagle on the PGA and LPGA Tours.

All of the money benefits the St. Jude Children's Hospital.

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it's cool what a couple of wins can do...

…Camilo really bumped up his tax bracket with those two wins – I’m glad he’s putting some of it to very good use like this. (now if he can get his putter to behave so he can actually make those eagle putts !) :-)

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Jan 9, 2009 12:58 PM EST reply actions

I was kind of surprised

When I looked last year at the eagle leaders. I figured guys would be into double digits to have the lead, but that’s not true.

by Ryan Ballengee on Jan 9, 2009 1:04 PM EST up reply actions

not at all...

…as much as many players see par 5’s as automatic birdies – it’s still incredibly hard to hit a 2 or 3 iron or hybrid, or a 3 or 5 wood within “easy” eagle putt range. I wish they would separate par 4 eagles from par 5 eagles. I’d be interested in knowing how many eagles came as chips or putts on a par 5 as opposed to holing out a shot from the fairway on a par 4. Holes in one are easy to find in the stats.

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Jan 9, 2009 1:16 PM EST up reply actions