Philanthropy on the Fairway: St. Jude Large Daddy Celeb Golf Basic Tees Off this Month

Persevering with the annual Lengthy Island custom, the St. Jude Large Daddy Celeb Golf Basic returns to Oheka Fort and the Chilly Spring Nation Membership on June 23 and 24.

As at all times, the occasion is being spearheaded by Wealthy “Large Daddy” Salgado, who is happy to have the sponsorship of Delta Airways, Oheka Fort, Arizona Iced Tea and Nike, and the participation of a powerful lineup {of professional} athletes (present and retired), media personalities and different celebrities taking to the hyperlinks for an excellent trigger. All proceeds profit St. Jude Kids’s Analysis Hospital.

The festivities are barely completely different this yr than up to now. Sunday night, June 23, at 7:00, Oheka Fort will host a VIP, invitation solely dinner. Monday afternoon, with a 12:30 pm tee time, the golf event will get underway on the Chilly Spring Nation Membership, adopted by a gala dinner there from 6:30 to 10:00 pm. As in earlier years, there will likely be a silent and dwell public sale of sports activities memorabilia, and particular occasions packages. Musical leisure will as soon as once more highlight the stylings of Michael Martocci.

Wealthy Salgado is especially exited a couple of particular look by Tyler, a former St. Jude affected person from Memphis who’s now most cancers free. “I met Tyler about ten years in the past,” Salgado defined. “He’s an actual St. Jude success story, so it’ll be nice to welcome him and listen to his inspiring story.” Salgado has been pleased with this partnership with St. Jude and their unbelievable work within the remedy of kids’s most cancers.

Tickets for the St. Jude Large Daddy Celeb Golf Basic begin at $300 (Gala solely) and different particular person and group packages can be found now at www.stjude.org/bigdaddygolf