WEBVTT 00:00:00.500 --> 00:00:03.300 [music] 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:06.300 The Coconut Classic got started as 00:00:06.300 --> 00:00:09.000 a tournament that was put together 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:15.000 um by myself and uh the Tommy Bahama crew. 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:17.000 [ping of a golf ball being hit] 00:00:17.500 --> 00:00:19.500 [birds chirping quietly] 00:00:22.200 --> 00:00:25.600 Well the Garden of Hope and Courage, we have the Coconut Classic, you know. 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:29.600 We're one of the two beneficiaries of this two-day amazing golf event. 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:33.000 The relationship with the Garden of Hope & Courage 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:37.000 came from my wife Janet who passed away. 00:00:37.500 --> 00:00:42.700 Jan had a dream and a vision about being able to get to outside of a hospital room. 00:00:42.700 --> 00:00:48.500 Outside of the, the dreary drab confines of a hospital bed. 00:00:48.500 --> 00:00:53.600 And get out into the open and to the nature and to the sunshine and to the breeze and catch fresh air. 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:57.700 And that was kind of her vision. What would the garden look like and what would it have in it? 00:00:57.700 --> 00:01:00.800 And things of that nature and that's kind of how it started as a vision. 00:01:00.800 --> 00:01:06.000 And then it became a reality in 2004 through the help of the Tommy Bahama Corporation. 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:13.000 To know that you're part of a oasis that can provide 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:18.800 [voice quavering] that person that outlet, that closure, uh that memorialization. 00:01:18.800 --> 00:01:20.700 That's pretty cool. 00:01:21.300 --> 00:01:23.500 It's not how it begins, it's how it ends. 00:01:23.500 --> 00:01:29.500 And I think it ended wonderfully and um we go forward. 00:01:29.500 --> 00:01:31.000 [music fading]