Scottish Golfer Seeks Money Back From Cancer Charity
July 20, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
Colin Montgomerie, a Scottish golfer, is embroiled in a dispute with a British charity over money he donated for construction of a cancer center that the organization subsequently decided not to build, the Daily Mail reports.
Mr. Montgomerie gave about $270,000 — including approximately $82,000 he received as presents after asking for donations at his wedding last year — to the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation for a Glasgow facility to be named for his mother, who died of the disease in 1991. The charity decided last September not to build the center but to focus instead on research and patient support.
The British government’s Charity Commission ruled that the money should be returned, but the golfer’s Elisabeth Montgomerie Foundation said it has yet to receive a refund.
