Maria Palozola is a nationally known Golf Professional, Owner of St. Louis Golf Lessons and was the Lead Instructor for the Golf Channel Academy with Maria Palozola in St. Louis, MO. Since 1994 Maria has dedicated many hours to grow the game of golf through initiatives working with handicapped golfers, junior golfers, women golfers, and beginners in order to make golf more accessible. In 2017, together with her sister Sally Palozola Cherre, they decided to take action on the longtime dream of developing a foundation that could use golf to support Veterans. They established this foundation to honor their late fFather, Leonard J. Palozola who fought in WW2 (Battle of the Bulge), late grandfather, Leo J. Palozola who fought in WW1, both of whom loved to golf and to also honor their nephews who fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
We Believe: That Golf can act as a healing agent and outlet for physical activity for both veterans suffering from PTSD and physical handicaps and their families. We also seek to make golf more accessible to those veterans with physical handicaps such as missing limbs.
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Note: All Palozola Foundation and Forces for Food Board of Directors and Committee Members are non-paid volunteers.
