Spieth foundation giving funds to Children’s Hospital

AUGUSTA, Ga. - Professional golfers competing in the Masters Tournament continue to make a difference in the lives of CSRA residents.

The latest is Jordan Spieth, whose foundation picked the Children’s Hospital of Georgia as one of its 2023 community partner grant recipients.

The grant helps fund travel expenses for pediatric cancer patients and their families.

It also will fund a full-time social worker.

Hospital leaders say they are thankful for the Spieth Family Foundation’s for the care they provide to kids across the state and the region.

“Clinical social workers provide psycho-social directly to families but then also are critical for connecting families to other resources in the community, other cancer groups that meet and any other needs the family may have when they’re devastated by the diagnosis of cancer in one of their children,” said Dr. Valera Hudson, a pediatrician in chief, Children’s Hospital of Georgia.

Hudson says they were surprised but thankful for the foundation’s and the many golfers who give back to the communities where they play.

The dedicated social worker will play a key role in the identification of patients, their needs, and the distribution of patient assistance funds.

He spoke about the donation during a brief news conference Monday at Augusta National Golf Club.

“This is a special place for us, and then Annie and Laura Moses reached out and got to learn a lot about where it was going to go to,” he said. “I think it became a pretty easy grant for us to feel like it was going to go to the right place in a community that we find very special to us. Kind of in line with what we do with the foundation.”

Spieth is set to play this year at Augusta National Golf Club and was the 2015 Masters champion.

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