In the summer of 2019, a 17-year-old Jose Suryadinata and his mother, Kristina, traveled to the US from their home in Surabaya, Indonesia, on the Northside of Middle Java. The trip consisted of 45 days of golf, but it wasn’t a vacation, it was Jose’s only shot at picking up a college scholarship and the family put everything on the line, including taking out a second mortgage on their house, to help him hit that goal.
“The burden of that trip wore on me,” Jose said, “It was all I could think about the weeks before we left.