Exciting Update

We had our Betty's Builders Golf Tournament on Friday, September 23.  It turned out fantastic!  We had invited 60 players and 60 players showed up.  We wanted a bigger turn out than this but others that were contacted had other plans and could not make it.

All the golfers were either sub-contractors or contractors.  They all received a goodie bag which contained the golf shirt, golf shoes, sunglasses, and a couple dozen golf balls.  As the tee-off time was at 1:00 PM, we provided a box lunch.  The lunch consisted of either a Turkey or Roast Beef sandwich which had lettuce and tomato, a bag of Dorito chips, an apple, and a large chocolate chip cookie.  Everyone seemed to enjoy the food as all the lunches were taken.  The drink was either the water that was provided on each golf cart or they had to purchase a drink.

The tournament lasted a little longer than expected.  The 4-some's were to play best ball but they instead all took their own turns playing their individual balls.  The course was very challenging to everyone.  Pechanga is an Indian reservation.  On the golf carts was a GPS which would also explain the hole you are at, give the English name and the Indian name of the hole, and the particular plant that was around it and how this plant was used or something interesting about the course.  This course was an 18 hole course but it also was very spread out.  The cart paths were like a roller coaster.  You would drive up a steep path up the mountain with the return going down just as steep but add on a sharp turn.  You have to look out for other golfers being on the path so it did get cosy driving by each other.  Once at the hole, you could be shooting over ravines or across streams.  Once you were on the green, you still had to deal with the different curves and gullies.  As I said, tough course!

This whole day was timed out to the minute.  Of course, it doesn't quite work out that way.  The players were supposed to play the best ball, which meant that the four would tee off and whoever had the best location, the rest would pick up their individual balls and play from that location.  It turned out the some of the golfers were playing their own ball right where it lade.  This caused quite a few to be late for dinner.  We had to hurry them up from socializing to getting their dinner and sitting down so the program could be started.  We lost quite a few of the golfers as it was getting late so they just left.  The ones that stayed heard from me as I told my story.  Writing my story took some effort as I had to condense 30 years to 2-3 minutes on my life with MS and how the MS Society has helped me.  Everyone said that the speech was good.

We raised for the National MS Society, Pacific South Coast Plaza, $52,700.00.  We were so excited and pleased as this was the very first tournament for Betty's Builders.  We already have the course scheduled for June 2012.  Now we get to start recruiting for the next tournament.