The Myrtle Beach golf community is taking its fight against prostate cancer to the course.
The Know Your Score: Fight Prostate Cancer campaign, a Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday initiative, will be hosting closest to the pin contests each Saturday from October 17 through November 7. The contests will be held between 8 a.m. and noon on more than 20 courses along the Grand Strand.
Participation is $20 and all proceeds benefit Know Your Score. Each participant will receive a free sleeve of golf balls and be entered into a drawing for a Caribbean cruise, a 42-inch HDTV and a $250 gift certificate.
The winner of the daily closest to the pin contest at each course will have their choice of a new putter or a new driver. If a player records a hole-in-one, he or she will win $1,000 in cash.
Participating Myrtle Beach area golf courses include Aberdeen Golf Club, Blackmoor Golf Club, Black Bear Golf Club, Burning Ridge Golf and Country Club, Brunswick Plantation and Golf Resort, Founders Club at Pawleys Island, Indian Wells Golf Club, Indigo Creek Golf Club, King’s North at Myrtle Beach National, Litchfield Country Club, River’s Edge Golf Club, River Hills Golf & Country Club, Sandpiper Bay Golf Club, Shaftsbury Glen Golf & Fish Club, SouthCreek at Myrtle Beach National, The Long Bay Club, The Pearl, The Resort Club at the Grande Dunes, West Course at Myrtle Beach National, Wachesaw East, Waterway Hills Golf Club, Wicked Stick Golf Club and Willbrook Plantation.
The closest to the pin contests are another phase of the multi-faceted Know Your Score effort, which hopes to raise $250,000 to fight prostate cancer. Earlier this year, Know Your Score hosted its second annual celebrity golf tournament and gala, and regional tournaments were held in Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Pa., and Toronto, Canada.
Among the celebrities who traveled to Myrtle Beach to play in the celebrity event were Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim, the charity’s national spokesman, actor Craig T. Nelson and Pro Football Hall of Famer Dan Hampton.
The most common non-skin cancer in America, prostate cancer afflicts 1 in 6 men, the majority of that total over the age of 40. As the world’s most popular golf destination, that demographic is Myrtle Beach’s core audience. As a result, Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday teamed up with Zero: The Project to End Prostate Cancer to launch the Know Your Score: Fight Prostate Cancer campaign in 2008.
Money raised by Know Your Score is dedicated to improve research, early testing and education.
For more information on how to participate in the Know Your Score effort, go to www.KnowYourScoreMB.com.
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And now that General Petraeus is widely known to have prostate cancer, it will bring more needed attention to this form of cancer.
Is there a list of dates that correspond with the locations of the local golf clubs that are participating or can you register with any other the clubs listed and participate at any of them each Saturday?