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Lawyer Brings Ugandan Boys Gift of Golf

By Jamie Heller

This being Masters week, let’s close it out with a feel-good golf post.

Journal reporter Katie Rosman recently contributed to this Web site’s new sports page (forgive the plug but really, check it out) with a dispatch about an inhouse lawyer who started a drive to get golf equipment to boys in Uganda.

Daniel Frommer (pictured right) is a 36-year-old lawyer for the Walt Disney Internet Group in California. Earlier this year, his longtime friend Clare Murumba (pictured center), also a lawyer, urged him to visit Uganda, her native country, to which she had recently moved from New York. They talked golf — the country has many courses built during the British administration from 1894 to 1962. Ms. Murumba also told Mr. Frommer that many boys there love golf but have almost no access to clubs and balls.

Mr. Frommer set out to do what he could to rectify that. Exactly what — read on here, complete with some great pictures.

Meanwhile, for the golfers out there, here’s a must-read from the archives by Rosman — the tale of how she secured a chance for her stepfather to play at the Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters tournament.

Enjoy the Masters and have a great weekend!

Full post as published by Law Blog - WSJ.com on April 11, 2008 (boomark / email).