In 2005, the PGA TOUR surpassed the $1 billion mark in charitable donations. It expects to hit $2 billion in this decade. Both are astronomical numbers for a relatively small organization, when compared to many other mega-corporations. To be sure, the PGA TOUR gets lots of exposure every week to aid in its efforts, but much smaller organizations and groups, even individuals, can make just as big of an impact to people in need.

Here are two shining examples of how goodness and charity through golf can pay big dividends. The first shows how merely a few people with a common goal have made an immeasurable impact on as yet untold numbers of lives. The second is evidence of how much a small charitable organization can do to help itself and those to whom it is dedicated.

Broadway Christian Church, a small church in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, is home to the Agape Sunday School class. In 2003, the roughly 30-member class decided it wanted to do something substantial to benefit a local organization, the AA Pregnancy Help Center, now known as Assurance. The center, which survives largely on charitable donations, provides open-ended counseling, pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, information on pregnancy options and a host of other services to young, expectant mothers.

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