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(AP) -- Golf star and Iowa native Zach Johnson has pledged more than $1 million to help some Cedar Rapids students.

The Gazette of Cedar Rapids says the Kids on Course program at Harrison and Van Buren elementary schools will begin this fall and run through the 2013-2014 school year.

Johnson says the program will provide students with several opportunities and life experiences.

Johnson won the famed Masters tournament in 2007 by two strokes over the game's biggest name, Tiger Woods.

The program was developed by the board of the Zach Johnson Foundation, in cooperation with United Way of East Central Iowa and the Cedar Rapids school district. Its goal is to inspire students to make choices that will help them throughout their lives.

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