9th Annual Golf Tournament, 2010
On a sunny summer Saturday morning of July 10, 2010, a band of 44 merry Knights and their guests invaded the rolling plains of Hornby Glen golf course to duel it out and find out who reigns supreme in the 9th annual golf tournament. The band of 44 brave souls were made up of, St Francis Xavier Council 12067 Chaplain, Fr. Bob O’Brien, 19 Brothers from our Council, 14 Brothers from other Councils and 10 guests including one lady., This is the first time in the tournament history that we had one of our Chaplains participate.
The day commenced in no better way other than with players duelling it out to win money ($100, $ 50 and $ 20) and a bottle of cognac!! Charter GK Bro Matthew’s practice in
Leandro Saldanha won the Closest to the pin contest and Bro Mike Balawejder, from Maximillian Kolbe Council won the longest drive contest. The overall golf tournament winners were the foursome from Maximillian Kolbe Council made up of Brothers Joseph Zielinski, Mike Balawejder, Andy Macula and George Perez. The KOC Council 12067 winners were the foursome of Bro Valens Almeida, Steve Ozorio, Flint DaSilva, and Brian Fernandes.
Since inception, the primary objective of this tournament is to foster fraternity among brother knights and to have fun. A secondary objective is to support a charity, which in our case for the past few years has been The Silent Children, a charity run by Dr Simone, which helps abused children overseas. With this in mind, the various organizing committees have kept the tournament fees reasonable to primarily cover tournament related costs while any profits are generated from silent auctions, sponsorships etc.. This year is no different. Financially, this tournament was a success. As budgeted, we broke even on the golf side, but made a substantial profit of $2,021.78 largely due to hole sponsorships, silent auctions and contests. The Silent Children charity will receive $1,150.00 of the profits and the balance $871.78 will be donated to the council to support other causes.
I am grateful to all our fellow Brother Knights and sponsors for donating trophies, gifts, hole sponsorships and also for playing in the tournament. I would like to specially recognize;
· Bro John Tavares for donating four trophies, which we used as floating trophies for the various contests, and
· Mark Vas, son of Bro Mario Vas, for assisting at the registration desk and for taking photographs
My sincere thanks to my committee for making this a successful tournament. They worked hard to register players, ran the contests, donated gifts, and rode to the rescue when our gift situation was precarious.
Finally, I wish Bro Francis Ho, the very best in organizing next year’s tournament.
Bro. Brian Fernandes
Chair, Golf Tournament Committee, 2010