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California Country Club Hosts a Disabled Golf Tournament

James Kim Head Pro

장애인 후원 골프대회 개최한 캘리포니아 컨트리 클럽
제임스 김 헤드 프로

he California Country Club is a started his own tournament and started rean here, immigrated to the U.S. in 1976,
Tmember private golf club designed to sponsor teenagers with disabilities with but he lived a religious life hard enough
by William Bell, who designed Torrey the nonprofit KASEC. to learn Korean through the Bible while
Pines in 1956. The California Country Club, which is attending college.
The golf course owned by Lee Duk-hee, a supporting two athletes to focus on the The California Country Club has con-
former national tennis player, also owns event, plans to bring them to the disabled tributed as much to the development of
the Eagle Crest golf course in San Diego golf tournament in the future and join Korean society as its 64 years of history.
and the Palm Springs Farm Desert Coun- them in sharing love with the community It served as a social venue through golf
try Club. by holding the event every year. and as a meeting place.
For the first time since its opening, he has James Kim Head Pro, who is the only Ko- At times, Korean clothing and sewing in-

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