Rotary Golf Classic To Kick Off Fall Golf Charity Events

The Fall season of Charity Golf Events will shortly be upon us as many of your favorite organizations and causes will step up their annual events to help fund many of the charities the island has supported over the years.

The Rotary Golf Classic will be held on Saturday, September 9th, at the Hammock Bay Golf Resort on Mainsail Drive just over the Judge Jolley Bridge. This will be one of the first events of the Fall season and is sponsored by the two Island Rotary Clubs. The receipts will go towards funding much of their philanthropic giving over the next year. Some of those recipients include the Gift of Life Program, which helps to fund heart surgeries for impoverished children, the Meals of Hope Program, which helps feed those in need within Collier County, Dictionaries for Children, and those literacy programs which benefit many Collier County children. Other beneficiaries include the popular Christmas Island Style Events, Our Daily Bread Food Pantry, The American Cancer Society, the Quarterly Unsung Hero Program, funding for the Rotary District Disaster Trailer Program, Local School Scholarship Programs and the Rotary Seminar 4 Tomorrow Leaders Program, which provides funding for two to three students to attend a weekend long spring leadership program held at the Florida South College Campus in Lakeland, Florida.

Another area that has been an important program supported by Rotarians is the continued worldwide effort to wipe out Polio and support clean drinking water programs.

Both clubs welcome new members to join their clubs. “If you are a leader within your community, you can’t afford not to be a Rotarian, for Rotary is made up of the most successful business professionals within communities across the nation. Those men and women are committed to making where we live a place for all of us,” said last year’s District Governor Neil Snyder who lives and works here on Marco Island.

There are cash prizes and other special drawings plus a $10,000 Hole in One award and prizes for the longest drive and closest to the pin.

For registration information and forms please email Debra Shanahan at debra34145@gmail.com or feel free to call her at 230-248-7419.