Patrick Cover is named one of 7 finalists for 2012 Presidents’ Leadership Award
The Presidents’ Leadership Award was created to recognize one boy and one girl junior golfer who demonstrate leadership, character and community service through their involvement with the Leadership Links program – a joint initiative founded by the USGA and AJGA in 2005 to further develop junior golfers through volunteerism. The recipients of the USGA-AJGA Presidents’ Leadership Award will be named on May 31.
Patrick Cover, Huntersville, North Carolina (Class of 2014)
Cover founded and organized the “Dormie Cup,” a golf tournament that benefitted the First Tee Program of the Sandhills, the Wounded Warriors Fund and the AJGA ACE Grant. Enlisting the help of his fellow junior players, he challenged the golfers to raise a minimum of $1,000 to compete in the event. Cover oversaw many aspects of the tournament, from finding a golf course to sending thank-you notes. The first “Dormie Cup” in 2010 raised more than $10,000 and more than $24,000 the following year. Other than organizing the golf tournaments, Cover helped collect blue jeans through his school for less fortunate children in the Aeropostale Jeans for Teens campaign.
