CHICAGO – The 49th Annual Children’s
Memorial Pro Amateur Golf Championship will
be held on
Monday, June 29, 2009
at the Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest. The
tournament, hosted by the Founders’ Board of
Children’s Memorial Hospital, is the second
oldest pro amateur golf tournament in the
country. Presenting sponsors for the 2009
Pro Am are Huron Consulting Group and United
Airlines.
All money
raised from the 2009 Pro Am tournament will
support the Founders’ Board’s $10 million
pledge to the hospital’s Department of
Family Services. Last year’s Pro Am event
netted a record $1 million for the hospital.
This year’s festivities begin with the
Tee-Off Dinner, hosted by The Allstate
Corporation and The Company Jet on Sunday,
June 28 at Shoreacres in Lake Bluff. The
featured speaker will be Charles Tillman of
the Chicago Bears who will share his
personal story of his daughter’s life-saving
surgery received at Children’s Memorial last
year.
Guests will have the opportunity
to bid on one-of-a-kind auction items,
including a 2010 Winter Olympics package, a
one-week stay at a private home in Paradise
Island and a five-day trip to the Dromoland
Castle in Ireland. In addition, there are a
number of golf getaways at some of the
premier courses across the nation.
Participants in this year’s Pro Am will play
a round of golf with professionals from the
most exclusive country clubs throughout the
U.S. The day will conclude with the 19th
Hole Awards Party, hosted by Forsythe
Technology, Inc., Illinois Tool Works and
NYSE/Euronext, at Onwentsia.
Founders’ Board
members Molly South
and Robin Zafirovski, both of Lake Forest,
are serving as co-chairs of the event and
John Ferguson and John Derse, both of Lake
Forest, are co-chairs of the Men’s Golf
Committee.
A limited
number of individual playing spots are still
available for this year’s Pro Am for $2,750.
For information on participating, please
contact Katie Spieth at 773-880-6307 or
visit childrensmemorial.org/proam.
The Founders’
Board is committed to supporting Children’s
Memorial through active participation in
hospital governance, volunteerism
and advocacy.
Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, is
recognized as one of the top pediatric
hospitals in the country by rankings
published in U.S. News & World Report
and
serves as a major regional referral center.
Its physicians are on the faculty at
Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of
Medicine. The hospital is currently engaged
in the Heroes for Life campaign to
raise a minimum of $600 million to help
create Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s
Hospital of Chicago and support its medical
and nursing professionals, programs and
research.
As a not-for-profit organization, Children’s
Memorial relies on philanthropy to help
provide care to 126,000 patients and their
families every year.
For more information, please visit:
www.childrensmemorial.org