Pro Golfers Giving Back: Symetra Tour Player Turned Nurse, Challenge Tour Golfer Turned Handsanitizer Maker

Two professional golfers who have hung up their golf bags for giving back are profiled and to be applauded.

Beth Ann Nichols has the story of Sarah Hoffman, a Symetra Tour player who recently returned to nursing during the pandemic.

“I just couldn’t keep sitting on the couch and not helping my friends who were on the front lines,” she said.

There’s nothing about the Hoffman file that’s standard. She didn’t grow up playing AJGA events. Didn’t compete in any tournaments outside of country club golf until the summer before college. In fact, Hoffman was set to play basketball in college until she took an abrupt turn to Grand Valley State.

Hoffman was also on The Clubhouse with Shane Bacon and it’s a great listen:

John Huggan tells us about Steve Tiley, a 37-year-old journeyman from England who recently won on the European Challenge Tour for the first time, has gone to work for his father’s business helping produce 5000 bottles of hand sanitizer a day.

“When the COVID-19 pandemic started, my Dad was disgusted with certain companies over-charging for things that were suddenly in demand,” says Steve who competed alongside the likes of PGA Tour players Matt Every, Ryan Moore, Spencer Levin, Webb Simpson and Dustin Johnson during his four years of college golf in Atlanta. “People were having to pay silly amounts for hand sanitizer. So he decided to do something about it. We’ve been selling it on at just about cost-price to the NHS Trust [who ordered about 35,000 bottles], care homes and key workers—anyone who needs it really. What we haven’t done is sell any to anyone who will sell it on for a profit.”