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PGA Tournament Bringing $100 Million Impact to SC Economy

On April 10th, more than 1,200 volunteers will begin working around the clock when over 130,000 fans will begin pumping almost $100 million into South Carolina's economy, all because 132 world class golfers will invade a small island off our coast.

Mike Switzer interviews Steve Wilmot, tournament director for the RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing PGA tournament at Hilton Head, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.