Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The numbers are as impressive as the cause.
Since the Flame of Hope Golf Tournament began 23 years ago, more than 3,100 rounds and 54,000 holes of golf have been played by Londoners and golfers throughout Southwestern Ontario. Charity, as they say on the PGA Tour, has been the real winner. When the last penny was counted from this year?s edition at Sunningdale Golf and Country Club, the total payoff for diabetes research, education and advocacy through the Canadian Diabetes Association was a princely sum: exactly $1,013,645.57.
To deem the Flame of Hope tournament a success story hardly does it justice.
But after achieving its $1-million goal before reaching its own self-imposed 25-year time frame this month, the charity tournament?s dedicated fundraising committee has made the conscious decision to end the event. It marks the close of one of the city?s most successful one-day charitable golf platforms.
http://www.lfpress.com/2012/08/28/flame-burns-brightly-to-the-end
Since the Flame of Hope Golf Tournament began 23 years ago, more than 3,100 rounds and 54,000 holes of golf have been played by Londoners and golfers throughout Southwestern Ontario. Charity, as they say on the PGA Tour, has been the real winner. When the last penny was counted from this year?s edition at Sunningdale Golf and Country Club, the total payoff for diabetes research, education and advocacy through the Canadian Diabetes Association was a princely sum: exactly $1,013,645.57.
To deem the Flame of Hope tournament a success story hardly does it justice.
But after achieving its $1-million goal before reaching its own self-imposed 25-year time frame this month, the charity tournament?s dedicated fundraising committee has made the conscious decision to end the event. It marks the close of one of the city?s most successful one-day charitable golf platforms.
http://www.lfpress.com/2012/08/28/flame-burns-brightly-to-the-end