As long as she can remember, Andie Greenberg has invested in returning to her community. The Walt Whitman High School Junior from Bethesda, MD., Since her primary school days, volunteering has been done for various charities with her family, but Greenberg has recently been able to bring her to give initiatives to a whole new level.
A lifelong tennis player, Greenberg started playing golf as a high school student during the pandemic. She immediately went to the game and practices and has since played, hoping to continue to compete at the university. But in addition to her busy golf schedule, Greenberg is also an avid advocate for the disabled community and seed that was planted during her class school years, volunteering in addition to her mother, Michelle, for the Nora project, a non-profit organization that focuses on promoting in pre-patery, empathy.
“At the end of the program we made documentaries about our friends and we were allowed to share it with the rest of the school on ‘Nora Night’,” Greenberg told me recently. “And that is really what my interest has aroused to give back to the disabled community.”
As a first-year student in high school, Greenberg became a peer buddy with the best buddies program, which facilitates biweekly hang-outs for people with intellectual or developmental disorders. Greenberg said that she and her buddy, Alexa, often have face-time between meet-ups and spend a lot of time talking about typical teenage subjects. They also enjoy trips Max’s best ice cream In Bethesda, who cooperates with the best friends, jobs offer intellectual and/or developmental disabled people.
While investigating ways to raise money for her Bat Mitzerwah project, Greenberg’s Music Foundation discovered a non-profit based in New York that offers free music programs to people with disabilities.
“It’s really cool,” said Greenberg. “It’s so inclusive, everyone is so positive.”
Greenberg picked up $ 2,000 for Daniel’s Music Foundation via the Leadership Links program of the American Junior Golf Association – established a joint initiative by the USGA and AJGA to further develop Junior Golfers through volunteering and philanthropy. In August, Greenberg was recognized for her fundraising efforts such as the female recipient of the USGA-AJGA Presidents’ Leadership Award from 2025, which was founded in 2005 to identify one male and a female junior golfer who demonstrates leadership, character and community service in the leadership service in the leadership in the leadership in the Leadership in the Leadership.
Although receiving the prize was certainly humiliating, Greenberg’s most inspiring moment of the summer weeks happened before the announcement of her honor. The US Adaptive Open 2025, the National Championship of the USGA for golfers with a handicap, was held in Greenberg’s Home Club, Woodmont Country Club in Rockville, MD. Greenberg was planning to help with scoring, but a DM Australian competitor Lachlan Wood asked Greenberg to Caddy for him instead. Wood eventually won his division (limiting the lower limbs) and generally rose for second place.
“It was so inspiring. It was really cool to see all the different types of athletes,” said Greenberg. “And they all play golf better than me. I learned so much from the whole experience, and it was probably one of the best sporting events I have ever been.”
Greenberg says she hopes to continue her philanthropic effort far into her future.
“I don’t know yet if I have a full plan, but I absolutely want to keep raising awareness and donating to these various charities that the community helped,” she said. “I just think it’s such a charity and I still want to keep helping.”
What about next summer? Once week has already been booked. The US Adaptive Open is back in Woodmont in 2026, and Greenberg has already agreed to take the bag again for wood.
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