'KidSwing' Raises $1 Million For Local Children's Hospital

'KidSwing' Raises $1 Million For Local Children's Hospital

In McKinney, Texas, kids played in a charity golf tournament to help raise money for patients at the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (TSRHC). The annual KidSwing tournament is in it's eighth year and has now taken in more than a million dollars.

The KidSwing Golf Tournament was founded in 2003 by former TSRHC patient 11-year-old Ben Sater. Sater is now 18 and ready to set off for college, but his major goal by the time he left for school was to pass the million dollar mark, and last week that happened.

"It is just awesome! Eight years ago when we started it a million dollars didn't cross my mind, just amazing. But a few years ago when we had raised a total of 600 thousand dollars, we thought not too far away, in a few years it could be in that area. So we set that goal for the tournament raise that amount of money before I went off to college," said Sater.

For the last three years, KidSwing has had two tournaments a year, one in Dallas and one in McKinney.

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