Hootie & The Blowfish

So far Hootie & The Blowfish have raised over $7 million, which has significantly supported the South Carolina Junior Golf Association.

“We had no idea it would turn into what it is today,” said Bryan. “And it’s still rising. We want to take it to new places. It takes 1,000 volunteers every year to pull it off. There’s no way we can thank them enough. It matters. We’re here to help more and more kids.”

To that end, while on stage at the ceremony, they pledged $10,000 to Dustin Johnson’s foundation. We should have expected nothing less. Well done, and surely well-deserved.

Hootie & the Blowfish is an American rock band that was formed in Columbia, South Carolina in 1986. The band’s lineup for most of its existence has been the quartet of Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber and Jim Sonefeld. The band has been on a break since around 2008 but announced plans for a full reunion tour in 2019.

As of July 2010, the band had charted sixteen singles on various Billboard singles charts and recorded five studio albums. Their debut album, Cracked Rear View (1994), is the 19th-best-selling album of all time in the United States, and was certified platinum 21 times. They have sold over 21 million copies of their albums in the United States. The group was also popular in Canada, having three number-one singles in the country.