Chip Roy: “The gentleman from Virginia reminds me--and we have not discussed this--that I first met the gentleman from Virginia…”

“The gentleman from Virginia reminds me--and we have not discussed this--that I first met the gentleman from Virginia when I was in college at the University of Virginia and he was the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, and I was an instructor for a golf camp that summer in Charlottesville for his daughter, I believe Stephanie. Pulling out of my memory banks. And that is where I first met him. Again, 20--whatever I was--23 or 22 years old, right out of college. But he reminds me that one of my college teammates at the University of Virginia was a gentleman by the name of Lewis Chitengwa. Lewis is not somebody you all would know, but you do know the name Tiger Woods. And Tiger was asked after his infamous 1997 year when he won the Masters-- obviously breaking down the color barrier at Augusta Masters. He was asked if he had ever been disappointed in sports. And he said he was disappointed once when he lost the Orange Bowl, the biggest amateur tournament down in Miami, where you would expect that to be. And he lost it to my friend, Lewis Chitengwa. Lewis is the first Black to win the South African Open. It was a monumental event, I believe in the early 1990s, when he won that tournament before he came to the University of Virginia, where he ultimately graduated. Unfortunately, he passed away 20 years ago this summer from meningitis. He had played golf in the Canadian tour in Vancouver and shot, I think, 68-69 Thursday or Friday, and passed away Saturday morning.…”