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| North Carolina Tsunami Relief Tournament - 4th March 2005
The weather was cool, but sunny and mainly still; a very
pleasant change from the preceding cold and windy days. 56 golfers formed 14
teams who played "best ball". The winning team shot 56 led by Billy
Duncan, with Joey Brennan, John Bullard and Scott Robinson, who won
a round of golf each at Pinehurst #8 course. Among other notable shots, Billy
Duncan shot a
hole-in-one on the #2 hole and won a trip to Hiltonhead for two. Please see the full report at the end of this page
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The
North Carolina Tsunami Relief Golf Tournament held at Magnolia Golf Course,
Magnolia, Duplin County, NC-28453. 4th March 2005 The weather was cool, but sunny and mainly still; a very
pleasant change from the preceding cold and windy days. 56 golfers formed 14
teams who played "best ball". The winning team shot 56 led by Billy
Duncan, with Joey Brennan, John Bullard and Scott Robinson, who won
a round of golf each at Pinehurst #8 course. Among other notable shots, Billy
Duncan shot a
hole-in-one on the #2 hole and won a trip to Hiltonhead for two. The Wallace-Rose
Hill High School Golf Team of 13 students led by the coach Mark
Stamp came to help make the golf course look perfect, before during and after
the tournament, cleaning, preparing and clearing up afterwards. We were honored by the presence of State
Representative Russell Tucker who spoke to the contestants before
tee-off with a motivational speech and prayer. Miss North
Carolina USA 2005, Chelsea Cooley, also honored us by visiting with
her mother, Jackie Cooley. Chelsea was gracious, gorgeous and perfectly poised
as she encouraged the contestants and later gave out the prizes. She and her
mum were personal sponsors of the tournament, donating their time and
considerable energy to this good cause. She was presented with a lovely Indian
necklace, made in Pondicherry, India; a town hard-hit by the tsunami.
Chelsea will compete in the Miss USA 2005 pageant this April and takes
our best wishes and votes with her!. Charlie Albertson,
State Senator of the 10th District of North Carolina came to cheer
on the contestants and promised help for future charitable tournaments. Mayor Batten of
Warsaw was kind enough to visit and assist with the prize giving,
representing Duplin County. He honored the contestants and sponsors saying
that this kind of event was unusually successful at raising money in Duplin
County. The tournament raised four
thousand two hundred and twenty-three dollars ($4,223) which will
be disbursed to the tsunami victims by way of 'Direct Relief International'
who are taking no administration fees for this fund. Tel.: 805-964-4767 Fax:
805-681-4838 www.directrelief.org. The giant check in the photographs was made
out just before an unexpected and wonderful private anonymous cash donation of
$500. Ravi
Jenkal and his associate Shalup came as representatives to accept the check
on behalf of their country, India, one of the hardest hit by the disaster.
They are Ph.D. students at the North Carolina State University in Raleigh We
expect to hold this charity fund-raiser every year, as the hard- hit countries
will need help to recover for a long time.
Magnolia Golf
Course sincerely thanks all those players and sponsors that made this event such
a success.
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