that i could go golf with him. only problem is i don t golf. so the word got back, you have a week. for four days with the esteemed help of a fabulous golfer, at least he tells me, we went down through with incredible instructors. i got a short game, a long game. i got my swing analyzed. calloway actually made me clubs and i had a chance to go golf with the president for 18 holes with major dan rooney who created it. staff sergeant heath calhoun who lost both his legs in 2004, courtesy of an i.e.d. great guy who is now a paraolympic skier and jim remey, president of pga. the president has been golfing since he was 18. for 18 holes, it was surreal. thus and followed by the secret service, golfed on the beautiful ridgewood golf course in waco, texas. brian, what i loved is you didn t embarrass us, number one. i thought you were going to. but you don t know how to golf and you did so well on that
we had we had a long trip. went right to sleep, no problem and gretchen carlson trying to turn up the pressure a little bit because she is a solid golfer and she knows brian kilmeade is not. here s what i represent, gretchen and mike and pete johnson, it looks like mike, i m not sure. i haven t seen him since 1981. you look fantastic, mike, patriot golf day is today. and it happened a few years ago, thanks to this man to my immediate left. he is dan rooney. dan rooney, three tours in iraq, major dan to his friends. he wants me to call him dan. but major dan rooney put this together in 2007. we re joined by jim remey as well, president of the pga so patriot golf day, it s really not about how well you play. it s that you do play and giving back to the military. what how did this all start, dan? absolutely. as you mentioned, brian, three tours of duty in iraq and coming back from my second tour, it was actually over here, strange as that might sound on a commercial airline flight.
afghanistan and over 85% don t qualify for federal education assistance and so i reached out as a pga golf professional to the pga of america and we re lucky to have the president here with us today. and i said, we need help. jim remey, that s 2007. now, all these clubs have signed up across america to do what? you know, brian, we re so proud of the pga of america and all its members. the 28,000 men and women who really support this program. we re especially proud of major dan rooney for getting us and giving us this opportunity to help our fallen wounded warriors. there are over 400 facilities that will host patriot day events, parades, tournaments, all kinds of different events to raise money for these children who so badly need this help and the families that so badly need the help. not just those who have passed away. those that are disabled. their sons and daughters want to go to college. you ve gotten thousands of scholarships now and now you also have all you re asking t