The Ultimate
Covid-Aid
The Ultimate foundation set up in 2016 has been passionately
engaged in taking the game of golf to the grassroots and
making it accessible for the underprivileged kids of the
society. The foundation’s �agship program “sprint to
success” has been actively introducing the game to kids from NGO’S
and Government schools in rural Gurugram, over 2000 kids have taken
the privilege of the initiative so far. The foundation team screens the kids
for aptitude and �air for the game based on parameters laid down by
the foundation mentors and co-founders Jyoti Randhawa and Digvijay
Singh. The promising kids are then mentored, trained and supported by
the foundation at their facility in Gurugram, a few of them have started
playing to a single handicap and compete in regional and national golf
tournaments.
The onset of the Corona Pandemic and the subsequent lockdown was
disastrous for these kids and their families, the Ultimate foundation took
on the responsibility of providing rations to these kids and their families.
As the word got around, the caddies and daily wage ground staff at a
few golf courses in Gurugram and Faridabad reached out to the Ultimate
Foundation asking for help, what started out as a small gesture to help
out the programmed kids and families was now taking shape of a full-
�edged welfare program.
The Ultimate foundation reached out to the community at large to
come out in support of the caddies and daily wage ground staff, and
initiated a fund for their welfare. The funds collected were then utilized
to procure rations, masks, sanitizers and other items for daily hygiene.
The foundation team then reached out to the management of various
Golf courses in Gurugram, Manesar, Faridabad and Delhi and compiled
a list of Caddies and Daily wage ground staff who needed help before
commencing their distribution drive. The motivated team of the
foundation along with a few enthusiastic volunteers passionately went
around distributing rations, packed cooked food, masks & sanitizers
and also took the time out to educate everyone on how to stay safe
and stressed the importance of personal hygiene and social distancing.
The Golden Greens Golf Club, Manesar Golf Club, Aravali Golf Club,
Qutab Golf Club and a few other locations in Gurugram were covered
in the distribution cum education drive. The foundation is currently
The Ultimate foundation reached out to the
community at large to come out in support
of the caddies and daily wage ground staff,
and initiated a fund for their welfare.
distributing Tea and snacks 4 times a week to over 180 caddies and
ground staff at the Qutab golf course, Delhi.
The Ultimate foundation along with the top gol�ng legends of the
country has now initiated “The Ultimate Players Project” this is a
welfare program for the tour dependent golf professionals. With no golf
tournament since April 2020 and none in the horizon for the next few
months, these touring golf professionals whose only source of income
is the prize money they earn competing on the professional golf tour,
are the only ones in the golf ecosystem with no source of Income. The
aim of this program is to help those tour dependent professionals who
come from an underprivileged background and have not earned enough
prize money in the last year to sustain themselves and their families
for the coming months. To achieve this, The Ultimate Foundation has
planned “The Ultimate Pro Invitational Series” which is a series of zonal
golf tournaments for which these professional golfers will be invited and
given the opportunity to compete and earn prize money.
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