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Last week, our young men began to learn about the role that energy plays in golf mechanics. In golf, energy is transferred, stored and transformed in many ways. Our muscles expend energy to raise the golf club, which stores gravitational potential energy. As we swing, that stored gravitational energy and the body’s muscles accelerate the […]

Our golf instruction team has been working with our young men on the rules and terminology that are essential to understanding the game of golf. Working with an illustration of a golf hole and the USGA Quick Guide to Golf, our young men talked about the Rules of Play, and what players should and should not do in […]

The Bridge Golf Learning Center, our future home base in Harlem, is getting closer to completion. The walls and paint are finished, and the wiring is nearly done. In the coming weeks, we’ll be installing our three Trackman 4 golf simulators and rolling out the turf. When completed, the 2,300-square-foot learning center will provide a comprehensive […]

When you push on an object, the object pushes back. This is the essence of “normal force,” which our young men studied in this week’s STEM lab. A person standing on the ground is being pulled toward the earth by gravity, but the floor isn’t just lying there — it’s actually pushing back. A chair […]

On Saturday morning, we teamed up with Sheltering Arms and Mentoring USA for a breakfast at Eagle Academy. Fathers, sons and mentors from all three programs ate and socialized before moving on to the serious business of the day — a putting contest. Director of Golf Randy Taylor led the putting competition. It was a great experience to meet with […]

Our new STEM teachers Veeshan Narinesingh and Tiffani Kolozian got to know our students this week while studying Newton’s three laws of motion. Veeshan is a physics graduate student at the City College of New York, and Tiffani is finishing her physics education degree at City College. Co-teachers Veeshan and Tiffani demonstrated Newton’s laws with several creative, […]

On November 14th, the young men, staff and families of the The Bridge Golf Foundation’s After School Program took a field trip to the USGA headquarters in Far Hills, New Jersey. Carter Rich, the director of Equipment Rules and Conformance, and John Spitzer, Managing Director, Equipment Standards, led the group in a fun, informative and […]

Over the last weekend of September, the Bridge Golf Foundation held its inaugural charity event at The Bridge, an exclusive 7300-yard Rees Jones-designed course in Bridgehampton, New York. Most of the 80 guests that turned out for the opening night dinner and auction had a perfect evening to take in the majestic views of Sag […]

September 2nd was a very special day in the young history of the Bridge Golf Foundation. Farrell Evans, the organization’s co-founder and executive director, got the keys to the foundation’s new headquarters and gave staff a tour of the 2,400 square-foot Harlem-based facility, scheduled to open in the fall as The Bridge Golf Learning Center. The facility will house the organization’s after school program and an indoor golf center. The center will provide three Trackman golf simulators and putting areas, offering for the first time in Harlem a superior indoor experience for golfers of all ages.

The Bridge is the Big Payback The Bridge, a 7,300-yard Rees Jones masterpiece, is the site of the inaugural Bridge Golf Foundation Charity Event, set for September 26-27 2015. Built on 300 acres at the site of the former Bridgehampton Race Circuit course in the Hamptons, the club is the vision of its founder and principle owner, Robert M. Rubin, also the co-founder of the Bridge Golf Foundation. From its checkered flag logo to old racing stands to its fan-shaped Roger Ferris-designed clubhouse, inspired by the blades on a race car’s turbocharger, the

For the launch of the Bridge Golf Foundation on June 11th, more than 100 guests filled the Central Park West home of Robert M. Rubin and Stephane Samuel. Rubin and Farrell Evans told guests of hatching the plan for the nonprofit over a round of golf and a sushi lunch. David Banks, the CEO and President of The Eagle Academy Foundation, gave remarks about his organization’s new partnership with Bridge.

Meet and Greet at Eagle Academy The Bridge Golf Foundation, met for the first time on Monday, June 8th, with students and parents from the Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem at the school’s Harlem campus. Eagle is the exclusive school partner to the foundation. David Banks, the Eagle Academy President and CEO, joined Bridge founders, Robert M. Rubin and Farrell Evans, in a celebration of the new partnership. Rubin was joined by his wife, Stephane, and son, Harold. The foundation’s STEM consultants, Stephen Brodbar and Dr. James Hammonds, were also on hand to provide a summary of