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Norman, Bush, Clinton To Play For Tsunami Relief
AAP
January 18, 2005
What do you do when you're Greg Norman and your good
friend Bill Clinton announces to the media a secret tsunami charity project
you are working on?
"He's the former President of the United States," a
laughing Norman said. "He can say and do whatever he wants."
Former World No. 1 Norman, Clinton and another former
U.S. President, George H. W. Bush, will stage a charity golf event at a
Florida course in March. News of the project broke last week while Clinton
was speaking to the media.
The fine details of the fundraiser, which Norman expects
will raise at least $2 million for victims of last month's Asian tsunami
tragedy, are yet to be finalized.
"The title of it is: Three Friends: One Goal," Norman
said.
Norman, in Los Angeles Monday for an Australia Week golf
event, had a good laugh when he spoke about how Clinton unexpectedly went
public with the charity event.
"President Clinton came out and slipped with it last week
during a press conference and I think it (the news) went back to
Australia," Norman said. "It caught us by surprise."
Norman said it was too early to say which other golfers,
celebrities and dignitaries would be involved, although he said both
Clinton and Bush would be hitting the links.
"We will raise millions," Norman said. "We will probably
end up raising in excess of $2 million in one day. To get both presidents
in one location on a golf course together is unique, and that's the beauty
of their commitment to this effort as well."
Norman is close friends with Clinton and Bush, and when
he heard the two former presidents were spearheading a U.S. fundraising
campaign for tsunami relief, the golfer called them with his idea.
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