GOLF | A week after the Constellation Furyk & Friends was voted the top PGA Tour Champions event by the players, the good news kept coming.
Foundation are the MaliVai Washington Youth Foundation, First Tee — North Florida, Blessings in a Backpack, St. Johns Riverkeeper and Beaches Habitat for Humanity. Also benefiting are First Charities such as Wolfson Children’s Hospital, Operation Shower, Jacksonville Humane Society, Hope for the Holidays, City Year, K9s for Warriors, Guardian ad Litem Foundation, Guardian Catholic School and many more.
Jim Furyk, a 17-time PGA Tour winner and the 2003 U.S. Open champion said Constellation all the way down to the fan who bought a daily ticket gets the credit for the event being able to push its total charitable donations to $2.51 million in just two years."We're very proud of our team and the leadership by Tabitha and [tournament director] Adam Renfroe," Furyk said."It's a small team, they wear a lot of hats and work very hard.
Furyk said the tournament has been able to be so successful in two years because of the strong base that was built the previous 10 years when it was a two-day event, a concert and a one-day pro-am. Like all PGA Tour champions events, Furyk & Friends has pro-ams on Wednesday and Thursday of tournament week, and a smaller one on Monday. Most tournaments on the PGA Tour, PGA Tour Champions and the Korn Ferry Tour generate the bulk of their charity dollars through amateur players paying to compete with a touring professional in the pro-ams.
"I can't stress enough how important the pro-ams are for the Champions Tour," he said."But we're going to keep working to find ways to make the amateur players' experience and the fan experience more enjoyable and fun."
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