In an unprecedented collaboration, golf course architecture- and management-related groups and societies have banded together to support a fund raising event for writer Bob Labbance. The Vermont-based architecture and maintenance historian with over a dozen books to his credit is suffering from ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease).
Registration for the event is now open.
The event will be held Monday, June 23, at Ekwanok Golf Club in Manchester, Vt. And will include golf and auction. Registration is at 9:30 a.m., with an 11 a.m. shotgun start.
Brunch / barbeque buffet & auction will follow the golf. The event cost $500 per person, limited to the first 100 registrants. All checks payable to: Labbance Family Fund
Labbance Family Fund
P.O. Box 53
Bloomfield, Ct. 06002
Auction items to include rounds at; Atlantic Golf Club, N.Y.; Boston Golf Club (with Gil Hanse); Canterbury, Ohio; Erin Hills, Wis.; Fox Chapel GC, Pa.; Glen Club, Ill.; Half Moon Bay, Calilf.; Kingsley Club, Mich. (with Mike DeVries); Lake of Isles, Conn.; Long Cove, S.C.; Long Shadow, Ga. (w. Mike Young); Mountain Lake, Fla.; National Golf Links of America; Norwood Hills, Mo.; Pacific Dunes, Ore. (with Tom Doak); Renaissance Golf Club, Mass. (with Brian Silva); Sanctuary, Colo. (with Jim Engh – or at any course of his to be arranged); Secession, S.C.; Sevillano Links, Calif.; Southern Hills Plantation, Fla.; Sugarloaf Mountain Town & GC, Fla.; Tobacco Road, N.C.; Wintonbury Hills, Ct.; Yale GC, Conn. and additional courses/architects to be announced.
In addition, there will be: a pair of tickets to 2009 U.S. Open, Masters memorabilia, Golf architecture books (signed), Caddie services by Tony Pioppi & Brad Klein for Ekwanok to be auctioned in advance. Live music will be provided by Lloyd Cole
The event is co-sponsored by the American Society of Golf Course Architects, GCSAA, Golf Digest course raters, Golf Magazine course raters, Golfweek's Best course raters, the Seth Raynor Society, the Donald Ross Society, the Wayne Stiles Society, the Stanley Thompson Society, the A.W. Tillinghast Society and the Walter Travis Society.
