Countdown to 2025 Freedom Charity Golf Tournament underway

Article By: Sam Shapiro
Published: April 24th, 2025
Source: WIS 10 News

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – A combat veteran has found a new form of therapy through golfing with his family.

The Range Fore Hope Foundation is helping him and other veterans play for free through programs they have for disabled veterans and adaptive golfers.

The nonprofit is now gearing up for the Fairways to Freedom Charity Golf Tournament, which plans to raise funds to support those programs.

“I saw his eyes light up when we started to play golf, and that’s something you and I can do together, that’s magical,” said former combat veteran Steven Diaz.

This is the feeling Diaz says he got playing golf with his son for the first time.

He cannot see out of his left eye and has never tried golfing before.

He discovered he could through the Range Fore Hope Foundation and Golf Instructional Therapy Clinics hold weekly.

“I enjoy it because it takes your mind off the things you’re thinking about (and) for a veteran, that’s medicine,” Diaz said, “I’d rather do that than take medicine every day of the week.”