Pay It Forward: Quincy Leonard of Montgomery
Quincy Leonard teaches golf to many kids in the region, giving those who may not have had the chance to learn a new skill and important life lessons.
Here’s how he is paying it forward.
Leonard has been golfing for over 22 years, and many of those years include teaching kids. It started with his own kids and grew from there, and it led to him founding his own golf academy Leo Golf.
“First of all, everybody can’t play football, everybody can’t play basketball, but this is a game that you can learn any size,” said Cubie Ray Hayes, a friend of Leonard.
Leo Golf is a non-profit organization affiliated with US Kids Golf, and thousands of young people have participated in the program.
“I have been volunteering with him, seeing all of the character traits that he put into all the children. I love the fact that he works so well in the community. He has done the type of tournaments that bring their families together, so we had to nominate him,” said Mary Boone who nominated Leonard.
However, it’s not just golf that he is teaching, he’s instilling values that shape the lives of the young people he teaches every day.
“He gives them patience, he teaches them honesty, he gives them determination, and he inspires them to be like him and his kids,” said Hayes.
That’s why today Stewart Vance of the Vance Law Firm is paying it forward to him with a $333 check.
For Leonard, offering opportunities, skills and values to the next generation is what it’s all about.
“I didn’t come from a golfing background, so for me to come from humble beginnings like that and from a community that didn’t have golf at all is truly amazing. It wasn’t something I pursued to do but it was something that I think God gave me to do, so that’s why,” said Leonard.
