Reggie Bush, a legend for Helix High School in La Mesa, made his way to the front and began speaking to more than100 San Diego kids about the value of playing sports. Except he wasn’t talking about football — Bush was at Mission Bay Golf Course on Friday, June 5 to teach kids how to play golf.
“Golf is a game of life. There’s so many things in it that can help your life,” said Bush, who would go on from Helix to win the 2005 Heisman Trophy for the University of Southern California — a victory that was reinstated to him in 2024 after it had been stripped from him over the discovery of improper benefits — and later a pro football career that included a Super Bowl win with the New Orleans Saints in 2010.
The clinic was a part of Bank of America’s Golf With Us program, which the bank reintroduced this past April. Since then, the bank has also established a partnership with Youth On Course, an organization that provides youth ages 6 to 18 with $5 tee times in an effort to make golf more accessible for young people. To date 25,000 kids, including 2,200 in San Diego, have enrolled in a free one-year Youth On Course membership.
Bank of America partnered with Bush to put on the clinic in Mission Bay and promote the Golf With Us program to introduce local youth to golf.
“Hopefully they can hit the middle of the face on a golf ball,” Bush said. “That’s always the goal.”
Anthony DiBlasi, president of Bank of America San Diego, said the bank has been involved in sports for generations, from financing stadiums to banking sports teams, but events like this one are more about the community.
“For us, it’s about reaching out to kids in the community, giving them a pathway to leadership skills and other ways of success that they wouldn’t normally have,” DiBlasi said. For DiBlasi the bank’s partnership with Bush is important for the kids.
“We hope that by exposing them to someone like Reggie, they could see someone that’s had a path of success through sports,” he said.
Despite going to family barbecues in Mission Bay – and thus passing by the golf course – as a child, Bush said, he didn’t get into golf until he turned 30, just before retiring from the NFL. Since then, he’s taken to the game enough that he has also launched the United Athletes Tour, a crossover golf league designed for current and former pro athletes. The tour’s first event is scheduled to be held at Torrey Pines Golf Course from June 25 to 27.
Bush said participating in the clinic is a way to give back what golf has given him.
“Hopefully within us teaching them how to swing the golf clubs, we can also teach them how those things that they’re learning help them in life as well,” Bush said.
He said he wanted to teach the kids how tough the sport is, but starting with simple activities like chipping can help them develop the discipline needed to excel in the sport.
“I think golf can shape a lot of their character,” Bush said.
Enrollment for the Golf With Us program is open until June 15 and can be found here.
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