As long as she can remember, Andie Greenberg has invested in returning.
High School Junior from Bethesda, MD., Vlees volunteer for various charities with her family since her base days of the school, but more recently she brought her charity initiatives to a new level.
Andie’s first sport was tennis, but as a high school during the pandemic she started playing golf. She has been practicing, playing and improving since then, hoping to land at a university team. But in addition to her busy golf schedule, Andie 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-Ks.
“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’,” Andie 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, Andie became a peer buddy with the best buddies program, which facilitates biweekly hangouts for people with intellectual or developmental disorders. Andie said that she and her buddy, Alexa, Facetime often spend between meet-ups and 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, Andie Daniel’s Music Foundation, a non-profit organization based in New York that offers free music programs.
“It’s so inclusive, everyone is so positive,” said Andie.
Andie 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, Andie 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 by their involvement in the leadership.
Although receiving the prize was humiliating, Andie said that her most inspiring moment of the summer took place weeks before the announcement of her honor. The US Adaptive Open 2025, the National Championship of the USGA for golfers with a disability, was held in Andie’s Home Club, Woodmont Country Club in Rockville, MD. Andie was planning to help scoring, but then came a DM from the Australian competitor Lachlan Wood, who was looking for a Caddy. With Andie on the bag, Wood won his division (limiting the lower limbs) and generally came up for second place.
“They all play golf better than me,” said Andie. “I learned so much from the whole experience, and it was probably one of the best sporting events I have ever been.”
Andie says she hopes to continue her philanthropic efforts.
“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? A week has already been booked.
The US Adaptive Open returns to Woodmont in 2026 and Greenberg will be back on Wood’s Bag.
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