Sorority sponsors charity golf

Published 12:00 am Sunday, April 11, 2004

If you make a hole in one at Ocmulgee Golf Course on Wednesday afternoon on #6, you win a new Buick from event sponsor Turner Chevrolet-Buick. You will also win a cruise, a trip and a set of golf clubs. That’s one of the prizes being offered by the women of Alpha Pi Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha at their annual golf tournament being held at Ocmulgee Golf Course on Wednesday,

beginning at 12:30 p.m.

The funds raised will go to benefit local families in need, according to Pat Vines, vice president of the 40-year-old Selma sorority.

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Linda Walker, publicity chairman, said that the eighth annual benefit golf tournament

will be a four-person scramble, 18-hole competition with an entry fee of $65 per person or $260 for a team of four.

Free lunch will be provided, she said, and door prizes given away. There will be grand prizes awarded in three flights.

Additional prizes given will be for the longest drive on #3 and #14; closest to the pin on #7; and the longest putt on #18.

Ladies and seniors 65 or older will hit from a senior tee; all others will hit from the orange tee.

Vines explained that the money from the event goes into a special fund that is then used to help out families who have emergency needs and meet qualifications through the year, including head trauma, cancer and others.

Other group fund-raisers support the annual St. Jude Children’s Hospital’s research program for childhood cancer and a spring spaghetti luncheon to benefit Easter Seals.

Walker said the golf tournament is the biggest annual fund-raiser. The radiothon, in cooperation with Radio Station WDXX-Dixie 100, yielded $11,500.

For information, contact one of the following immediately: Ocmulgee Golf Course (872-8301); Sherry Cutler (872-9562); Sharon Morrison (872-8816); or Sue West (875-4966).