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Tiger Woods to open learning center this summer
Thursday April 17, 2003ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Tiger Woods has donated $5 million to build a youth education center that is expected to open next year.
The Tiger Woods Learning Center will be free to youths 8 to 17 and include a 35,000-square-foot education center next to a 23-acre site that will be used for golf instruction. The $25 million facility will be open 12 hours a day and will offer math, language arts and science tutoring, as well as character development programs.
Woods, the top-ranked golfer in the world, plans to open other facilities over the next several years under the umbrella of his foundation that bears his name.
``It just blows my mind that this high school punk kid has a chance to give back where it all started,'' Woods said. ``I play golf for selfish reasons. This is something I can do for other people.''
The center will be at the H.G. ``Dad'' Miller Golf Course in Anaheim, where Woods played as a student athlete at Anaheim's Western High School in the early 1990s.
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