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CHARACTER COUNTS! golf tourney raises
$20,000
PRESS RELEASE DATE: May 6, 2009
One hundred golfers enjoyed beautiful
weather and challenging greens during the Seventh Annual “Tee It UP” for
CHARACTER charity golf tournament April 30 at Monarch Country Club in Palm City.
This year’s event raised nearly raised
nearly $20,000 as the sole fundraiser for CHARACTER COUNTS!, a program of United
Way of Martin County, that provides character-building activities in schools,
civic organizations and businesses.
"CHARACTER COUNTS! encourages good
sportsmanship and increases public awareness of the importance of core ethical
values," CHARACTER COUNTS! Director Holly Laiben said. "This golf fundraiser
will help to ensure these activities continue."
CHARACTER COUNTS! also teamed up with
Clubs for a Cause, a program that offers any golf tournament the ability to
raise additional funds by collecting best used clubs, to amass more than 500
golf clubs from participants, Golf USA and Boys & Girls Clubs of Martin County,
and members of private courses including Monarch, Piper’s Landing, Martin Downs,
Palm Cove, The Fox Club, Willoughby and Lost Lake.
Other golfing results included the
following:
Low gross winners – (60) Butch Bayley,
Richard Anderson, Michael Neary and Clemens Kuhlig
Low net winners (54) – Doug Brimlow,
Margaret Orbeson, Bob Sempier and Bruce Farren
Low net second
place (55) – Glen Preston, Mike Johnson, Andrew Cornell and
Jack Lambert
Low net third
place (56) – Nick Bishop, Mark Feldman, Bill Bee and Ed Bee
Low net fourth
place (56) – Wayne Hyndt, Bill Holder, Kevin Landrey and Dan
Covey
Closest to the
Line – Chuck Morrison and Arlene Simms
The buffet dinner following the tournament
featured a live auction with auctioneer Justin Paul of Elliot Paul & Co., and
offered golf foursomes from McArthur, Loblolly, Willoughby, Piper’s Landing, The
Fox Club, Harbour Ridge, Mariner Sands, a photo session with Dultmeier
Photography, and an Indiantown RV excursion and brunch with hosts Butch and Jan
Bayley.
An array of
fundraising prizes were awarded, including foursomes at Lost
Lake, Yacht & County Club and Hammock Creek; gift certificates
for Peter’s Steak House, Courtine’s, Brick Wall Grill, tickets
for the Atlantic Classical Orchestra and to the Library
Foundation of Martin County’s 2010 Bookmania Meet the Authors
Cocktail Party.
On the course, each par-3 hole had a
hole-in-one prize, including a 2009 Toyota Prius and other gifts courtesy of
John Pierson’s Toyota of Stuart and a resort getaway courtesy of Monarch.
The corporate sponsor of the event was
Publix Super Markets Charities Inc. Other major sponsors included John Pierson’s
Toyota of Stuart, Monarch Country Club, The Enjoyment Book, Hometown News, Palm
Beach Post, Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers, Phyllis Kordick, Shirley Bradley,
Ampersand Graphics, Florida Coca Cola Bottling Co., Leo and Dolores Clancy,
Lively Orthodontics, Elliot Paul & Co. and Wendie Berardi of Trilogy.
Call (772) 283-4800, ext. 234 or visit
www.charactercounts.net for more information. |
