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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
2020 RBC HERITAGE PRESENTED BY BOEING TOURNAMENT
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HON. JOE WILSON
of south carolina
in the house of representatives
Friday, June 26, 2020
Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, on Sunday Webb Simpson
stunned the golf world with birdies on five of his last seven holes at
the 2020 RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing Tournament on Hilton Head
Island, South Carolina, edging Abraham Ancer by one stroke.
Played over the Harbour Town Golf Links since 1969 the event is
celebrating its 52nd year envisioned by the late Charles Fraser for Sea
Pines. The inaugural champion was Arnold Palmer. It created a platform
of celebration and a marketing tool to introduce Hilton Head Island
(the second largest island after Long Island on the Atlantic) to the
world, named the No. 1 Island in the United States by Travel and
Leisure Magazine.
With an economic impact of over $102 million now annually, the
Heritage Classic Foundation with J. Simon Fraser as Chairman and Cary
Corbitt as 2020 Tournament Chairman; has since 1987, distributed $44.6
million to persons in need throughout South Carolina and Georgia for
charitable organizations, the arts, medical institutions, and for
college scholarships.
The Island Packet with Stephen Fastenau provided proactive coverage
with a photo of PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan talking with Heritage
Classic Foundation President Steve Wilmot, Hilton Head Assistant Town
Manager Josh Gruber, Town Manager Steve Riley, and Mayor John McCann at
the Harbour Town Golf Links. The RBC Heritage is broadcast in 23
languages to 226 countries outside the United States. More than 1
billion households across the world could see the Harbour Town's famous
candy cane striped lighthouse.
The Tournament is traditionally kicked off with a procession from the
Lighthouse at the Marina led by bagpipers from The Citadel of
Charleston. The first stroke is by the prior year's winner using an
antique club from the Course of St. Andrews which had been provided by
the First Secretary of Scotland (Prime Minister) Alex Salmond during a
presentation ceremony at the U.S. Capitol steps coordinated by
Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) who was gratefully wearing the Heritage
Tartan plaid blazer.
A highlight of the Tournament is a Saturday flyover of a Boeing 787
Dreamliner or Dreamlifter over the famed eighteenth fairway. The world-
class jetliner is manufactured at the Boeing facilities in Charleston
which was toured last month by Boeing President David Calhoun who
provided three cargo shipments of personal protective equipment to
Governor Henry McMaster and Medical University of South Caroline
President David Cole to combat the virus pandemic.
The Tournament is in recognition of the first golf course in the New
World established in the Province of South Carolina by immigrants from
Scotland.
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