ROGER MARIS CELEBRITY GOLF TOURNAMENT
The 27th annual Roger Maris Celebrity Benefit Golf Tournament will be held June 26-28, 2010, at Edgewood Golf Course, Fargo, N.D. A sports auction, featuring hundreds of items from baseball and other sports, will be held over the weekend. The tournament's banquet will be on Sunday evening, at the Great Hall of the Holiday Inn.
The tournament is an 18-hole, six-member team scramble with a shotgun start. Cost to participate is $250 per person, and teams may elect to play with a celebrity without an additional charge. The first session is scheduled for Sunday morning, June 27, with two additional rounds to be played on Monday, June 28. A total of 26 teams will participate in each session. The tournament is filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
The event is a rain or shine tournament and no refunds will be given.
Past participants will be mailed pre-registration forms about April 1. For interested first-time golfers, please contact the tournament for necessary application forms. The tournament often sells out weeks before the event, so golfers are urged to return their completed pre-registration materials early.
In its first quarter century the tournament has raised over $1,400,000 for beneficiaries Hospice of the Red River Valley, Fargo Shanley High School (Roger's alma mater) and the MeritCare Roger Maris Cancer Center in Fargo, ND.
Established in 1984 as a fund-raiser for Shanley High School, the initial event included celebrities Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Bill "Moose" Skowron, Ken Hunt and Bob Allison. Through the years, the tournament developed a reputation as one of the region's premiere events and has attracted dozens of stars from the sports and entertainment worlds, including several members of baseball, football, basketball and hockey Halls of Fame.
This year's Board chairman is Denise Sargent. Board members include Wayne Blanchard, Harley Danielson, Jim Deutsch, Roger Fenstad, Sandy Goughnour, Roger Gress, John Jensen, Orv Kelly, Tami Blanchard-Llewellyn, Jerry Rostad, Richard Savageau, and Larry Scott.
The tournament committee includes Tanner Corwin, Kim Colwell, Denae Burkhardt, Pat King, Ralph Llewellyn, Mary Lou Dahms, Greg McCullough, Jim Shaw, Vicki Peterson, Tami Rostad, Tricia Rudnick, Mark Sander, Suzanne Sander, Dustin Mitzel, Trish Priewe, Joelle Shewey, Jodi Spaeth, Sue Thibedeau, Janelle Thompson and Jeff Torreson.
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