Iowa teen who lost everything in tornado asks for new golf clubs on TV – and scores them

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By Isabelle Keane

An Iowa teenager who lost his home in Tuesday's deadly tornado lamented in a television interview that his beloved golf clubs were destroyed by the calamity — and quickly received a new set.

“I lost a lot, including my golf clubs,” Bradley Gebbie, who graduated from high school two days before the natural disaster, told WHO-13 in a clip that has since taken off on X.

The teen was interviewed outside a destroyed home in Greenville, where at least five people died and dozens more were injured when the powerful tornado ravaged the small town of about 2,000 people, 55 miles to the southwest of Des Moines.

“I had about three thousand dollars in there,” the teen said of his golf clubs.

The teen then smiled and joked, “I'd like to give a shout out to Taylor Made, Titleist and Callaway,” three golf equipment companies.

“I really need a new set. I lost it and I love golf,” he said, drawing a smile from the journalist who interviewed him.

Sports reporter Keith Murphy took to Listen please.

The tweet sparked several responses from golf club brands, including Callaway, who said they were willing to help the young man get a new set of clubs.

In a second post on X, Murphy said the teen, who graduated from Nodaway High School on Sunday, would receive a full set of clubs and equipment from Callaway Golf.

“Bradley was a member of the Wolverines golf team and his sense of humor in difficult times is inspiring,” Murphy added.

Tuesday's tornado left widespread damage in the small Iowa town, where mounds of broken wood, branches, car parts and other debris litter neighborhoods where homes once stood.