Friday, June 17, 2005 | ||
Bad Links? | Rally for a Cure golf tournament enjoys 10th straight year in PTCBy MICHAEL BOYLAN The golf courses of the Flat Creek Country Club were swarming with players in pink on Tuesday as the club hosted the 10th annual Rally For A Cure golf tournament. The tournament is a womens golf program that promotes Breast Cancer Awareness and supporting the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Over 150,000 golfers nationwide participated in tournaments last year and the foundation, which formed in 1996, has raised $16 million dollars. Flat Creek is the only club in Georgia to have hosted the tournament for 10 consecutive years and tournament chairman Bonnie Hundley presented an award recognizing this feat to head pro Mark Owen and Cannongate General Manager Kelly Gilley. Eighty one golfers participated in this years tournament and enjoyed a post tournament luncheon that included prizes for the top golfers in each flight, as well as the golfers who hit the ball closest to the pin and had the longest drive. There were also auctions and raffles and, in a somber moment, cancer survivors were presented with roses and received a standing ovation for their bravery and their support of the tournament. Final figures of how much money this years tournament raised were not available at the time the paper went to press but Hundley expected to surpass the average of $1,300 a year, because of the auctions, raffles and the memory tree, which featured 50 ribbons honoring those whose lives were touched by cancer. The winners of the tournament were: Pat Van Gelder (Guest Flight 1), Claudette Keser and Linda Reed (tie in Guest Flight 2), Sherry Huchet (1st flight), Lyn Cunningham and Greda Kadel (tie in 2nd flight), Peg Conlon (3rd flight), Vi Walton and Kathy Weaver (tie in 4th flight), Helen Tate (5th flight), Liza Schroder (6th flight), Georgie Hicks (7th flight). The player who hit nearest to the pin was Janie Holt, who got the ball 10 feet and 10 inches away from the hole. Melissa Risley hit the longest drive wth 185 yards. |
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