Sahith Theegala Plays Mini Golf with Local Youth!
RBC Royal Bank of Canada sponsors a surprise mini-golf island session with kids from the Hilton Head Island Recreation Center to play with RBC Team Ambassador & PGA Tour Pro Sahith Theegala at Pirate’s Island Adventure Golf!
On Wednesday, April 17 during the 2024 RBC Heritage, Team RBC ambassador Sahith Theegala surprised local Hilton Head Island youth during an afternoon of mini golf provided by RBC.
Theegala, who finished T5 at the 2023 RBC Heritage, joined a group of young people from the Island Recreation Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to uplifting the local community and residents of all backgrounds.
To commemorate this event, RBC donated $25,000 to the Heritage Classic Foundation, which supports organizations that focus on important causes across South Carolina, including the Island Recreation Center. Since its inception in 1987, the Heritage Classic Foundation has distributed more than $52 million to local charities. Last year, RBC helped the Foundation raise more than $2.9 million in support of community programs across the state.
Helping communities prosper is core to RBC’s Purpose, and setting up youth in our communities for a thriving future is one of the key ways we do that.
Interviewees include:
Fiona Anderson, Senior Manager of Brand Communications, RBC
Kids from the Island Rec Center
Sahith Theegala, PGA Tour Pro
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About the RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing
The RBC Heritage is South Carolina’s Signature PGA TOUR event. Played over the Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island since 1969, the event is celebrating its 56th year April 15-21, 2024. The Heritage Classic Foundation, host organization, distributes the proceeds from the tournament to hundreds of non-profit organizations. Since it was founded as a 501 (c)(3) in 1987, the Foundation has donated $52.9 million to people in need. For information on how to “Get Your Plaid On!” call 843.671.2448, visit rbcheritage.com or Facebook (RBC Heritage) and X (@RBC_Heritage).
WHHI Daily News Anchor: Robyn Zimmerman
April 2024
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welcome back to the whhi Daily News our
own Lisa Richardson was at Pirates
Island for a surprise mini golf session
with our kids we’ve got Fiona Anderson
here with RBC we have a special event
happening locally for our Area Youth
Fiona tell us about your role with RBC
yeah so I’m senior manager of brand
communication so I do Communications for
all of our Big Brand sponsorships um
including including our sponsorships
with golf like the RBC Heritage and the
RBC Canadian open um which will be
taking place um back up in Canada um in
just a few weeks at the end of May well
obviously we’ve got the tournament here
this week and we have a special Pro
who’s one of the RBC team ambassadors
coming to surprise the kids let us know
who that is yeah so it’ll be S to Gala
um he’s been a team RBC Ambassador for a
few years and really our team RBC
ambassadors just represent the values of
RBC um you know speaking to teamwork and
collaboration and um we’re really proud
to work with a number of different
golfers in Canada and the US so he’s
going to come and surprise the kids
today and tell us what they’re doing
yeah so right now they’re playing mini
um it’s gied by RBC and to us it’s
really important to um support local
communities especially because we’re the
title sponsor here in hilon head um and
at RBC giving back um to communities and
supporting local youth is really
important to us so we want to set them
up for Bright Futures um so we’re really
happy to have them here today and they
I’m sure they’ll be surprised with one
of the pros uh coming to play with them
absolutely I know that he’s here from
our Hilton Head Island rec center are
going to be super excited so we’ll stand
by and see that when it happens thank
you for sharing with us and all you do
for our community and the connections
that you bring to Hilton Head Island
yeah thank you for having me we’re here
at putt putt at Pirates Island and these
young students are having a good time
today we’ve got Matthew here leading the
group how’s your putt pet game going
it’s going really well okay I’m having a
really good time well that’s great who’s
winning amongst your
group um probably Robbie I think okay
well you all are out here on a special
field trip with the island recx center
today and Jerome’s Your Leader Jerome
tell us a little bit about what yall are
doing um we just out here playing putt
putt um on a special field trip for
these guys yeah so it’s RBC Heritage
week’s big golf tournament so how cool
that you get to come and play golf is
are any of you going to go watch the
pros play this week yes I am gonna go
see Heritage do you have a favorite
golfer that you might want to follow
well my favorite golfer is in there but
he’s Tiger Woods oh of course Tiger
Woods right well I’m going to stay and
watch and see how this little putt putt
game turns out and maybe we have a prize
for the winner today what do you think
yes hey
guys what’s going on what you guys doing
hi
here to play some mini golf with you
guys
maybe I guess to start off I was kind of
nervous I was like am I even going to be
entertaining to to a bunch of kids um
but it was a lot of fun honestly right
away I I felt the nerves go away but I
was probably equally as nervous as they
were but it was just fun to kind of I
still feel like I’m a kid sometimes and
when I get around other kids the energy
comes out a little bit but 26 now and I
guess I’m not not really a kid but it it
was just so fun to see uh kids smiling
and and play outside and um you know
hopefully even one interaction like that
gets them more involved in golf and I
think a lot of them told me they’re
going out to the event which is which is
really cool um one of the kids was told
me they saw my face on a on a concession
stand out there and yeah it was just a
lot of fun um wish I did better for them
I don’t think I was the best caddy left
them hanging on a lot of lot of hole in
ones there but uh it was a lot of fun
overall and just to be able to give back
is super cool as a result of that event
the RBC presented the Heritage Classic
foundation with a
$25,000 check and coming up after the
the break Bob will be with us and he
talked with the chairman of all the
volunteers at Heritage stay tuned