Check Those Numbers and Claim Your Prize
By Tom Bedell
You want prizes? We’ve got ‘em at the Tenth Annual Tournament for The Gathering Place. We tee off Friday at noon as noted in the last post, and the raffle and awards dinner will begin about 6 p.m. The tournament is a fund-raiser, of course, so we’ve set aside about a dozen items for auction, including the enticing passes to the U.S. Open Championship in Bethpage, NY (for all practice rounds, the tournament and possible playoff day), June 15-21.
Among the others:
>Q-Link SRT3 Therapy Pendants
>Ecco Shoes Discount Cards
>Foursomes at three top-rated Connecticut courses: Lyman Orchards Golf Club in Middlefield, The Golf Club at Oxford Greens, and Wintonbury Hills Golf Course in Bloomfield
>A foursome at the Equinox Golf Club in Manchester, Vermont
>Two golf bags: the Ogio Ozone Stand Bag, and the Burton 2008 Ryder Cup at Valhalla cart bag
>Tour Edge Exotics Driver
>Dinner at Peter Havens Restaurant in Brattleboro
>Tickets to the Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston, September 4 to 7.
But that still leaves plenty on the table for the raffles, too much to list here, but including a passel of hats and shirts and other apparel from such manufacturers as Ashworth, House of Carrington, Izod, Fairway & Greene, Verterra, adidas, Callaway, Oakley, TaylorMade, Titleist and Canterbury Golf.
We’ll be sweetening the pot with sleeves of the new Dixon Earth ball, and among the equipment offerings:
>Sun Mountain cart bag
>Tour Edge Bazooka J-Max Houdini Utility Wood
>Zen Oracle Putter
>Mid-Weight Heavy Putter
>Ernie Els training system
>David Leadbetter Swing Setter Pro
>Izzo Swami Golf GPS
>Bionic Pro glove
In the miscellaneous category:
>adidas sunglasses
>Puma Pack Away Range bag
>Eagle Head Cover
>Coppertone Ultraguard Sunscreen
>Evolve...