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Lower Keys Chamber of Commerce Presents the Annual
Bacardi Golf Tournament, December 6th, 2009
Click here to see pictures of our winners, volunteers
and sponsors
It was a fabulous Chamber of Commerce great weather day
for our Lower Keys Chamber’s Annual Golf Tournament
which this year featured cash and prizes totaling over one
million dollars held Sunday, December 6th at the Key West
Golf Club on Stock Island. Bacardi donated bottles of Bacardi
and Grey Goose Vodka, always a favorite with the golfers as
well as the Centennial Bank Hot Dog Wagon volunteers, (JoAnn
Saunders and Bob Moore) who served up hot pulled pork sandwiches
(for breakfast, of course) to hungry golfers. John and Genevieve
Isaksen of Isaksen’s Insurance and the Lower Keys Chamber
provided a Hospitality Tent featuring Bloody Marys and Screwdrivers
to put everyone in the right mood.
Golfers paired off in a four person scramble for cash prizes
totaling $2000.00. First place winners were Mike Feltman,
Carl Touchet, Dave Matea and Sawn Niles who took home $1,000.00.
Second place went to Barbie Richard, Pat Linderman, Doug
Carter and Bob Shank who took home $500.00, third place to
Shawn Brown, Kevin O’Laughlin and Pat Rocky for $300.00
and rounding out fourth place were Brian Botsford, Mike Puto,
Stan Haines and Kevin Zuelch who took home $200.00. The 60
Foot Putting Contest sponsored by TIB Bank of the Keys with
a chance to win $5,000 was won by Victoria McFadyen who came
very close to sinking that putt; Rita Eaton won the opportunity
to win one million dollars on Hole 18 sponsored by Chicago
Title of the Florida Keys but did not sink the putt. Doug
Carter, Dave Patrocky and K. Urbinik “Beat the Key
West High School Kids” (not an easy feat) for extra
raffle tickets and the Lower Keys Chamber split the pot of
$220.00 with the Key West High School Golf Team. Merchandise
and gift certificates donated by many local businesses were
awarded to golfers who made the longest putt or landed closest
to the pin on each of eighteen holes as well as raffle items
and the Chamber’s silent auction. Unfortunately, there
were no winners for the Hole in One prize of $25,000.00
Many thanks to our major sponsors who help make it possible
for the Chamber to put this tournament together and they
are Specialty Hole Sponsors Chicago Title of the Florida
Keys who sponsored the Million Dollar Hole Putt and TIB Bank
of the Keys who sponsored the 60 Foot Putting Contest; Centennial
Bank, Bacardi, Lower Keys Electric, Inc., Collectors Corner,
First State Bank of the Florida Keys; Coca Cola Company,
Suburban Propane, Waste Management, Pepsi Refreshment Services,
Eagle Distributors Inc.; AT&T, The Real Yellow Pages,
floridakeys.com; News-Barometer and Isaksen Insurance Company.
Special thanks to our Hole Sponsors and everyone who donated
an item or gift certificate for hole prizes, raffle prizes
and auction items and all our players. Thanks to our Board
of Directors who arrived at 6:00 am to put up hole signs,
set up tents, drive drink carts, hole sit and prepare for
registration; Tim Saunders, Captain Jimmy Sharpe, Jr., Ian
Calderwood; Mark Sanders; Abby Oglesbee, Erica Rodriguez,
Terry Strickland and Cece Williamson and volunteers Joann
Saunders and Bob Moore of Centennial Bank; and Scott and
Tammy Bringle of Royal Plus.
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