Aiken Billing Rhino Saving Campaign, Needs To Start With His Golfing Countryman!

An unbylined A Michael Sherman IOL Sapa report reveals that South African Thomas Aiken, second in this week's Volvo Golf Champions event at the Links at Fancourt, is wearing a rhino on his hat as part of his effort to prevent rhinos in his country from being hunted into extinction.

“But you know, I've been waiting for something worthwhile to put on my cap and what is more worthwhile than trying to help all our rhinos that have been struggling so much the last two years.”

Aiken, who is in the field courtesy of his maiden win on the European tour in Spain last year, has started his own charity – the Thomas Aiken Rhino Fund.

“I got in touch with Trevor Jordan from Jordan Properties up in the Hoedspruit area and they are doing a fantastic job with Rhino Revolution. He really has taken the bull by the horns, or this case the rhino by the horns. We have got a war going on with the East and the prize is the rhino, and whether it will stay or whether it will become extinct.

“It's being valued at one million dollars a horn and so we have a serious financial problem with the fact that they have a lot of money and we don't.

“How do you fight a war when someone has more ammunition than you do, and you need to fight ,clearly.”

I'm guessing Aiken would like to chat up Masters Champion and proud elephant killer Charl Schwartzel, who, as if I recall correctly, revealed in a Golf Channel interview with Tim Rosaforte right after the masters that a rhino was next on the list of defenseless animals he wants to pay to have positioned for his killing pleasure.