Nearly 150 golfers and around 40 sponsors helped raise close to $27,000 for the upcoming Anna Mae Owen Residential Hospice House at the fifth annual Murray-Calloway Endowment for Healthcare Golf Classic on Friday, September 4, at the Murray Country Club.
Sponsored by David Taylor Chrysler, the tournament had teams playing in a scramble format, teeing off at either a morning or afternoon session. At day’s end, the Heritage Bank team of Jimmy Hicks, Scott Foster, Jason Howell, and Tim Thurmond took home the top prize award of $500.
Addition cash prize winners include: fifth place, Boyd Darnall Team Sherri Boyd, David Boyd, Ted Darnall, Carolyn Darnall); tenth place, Boone Pickens team (Howard Boone, Rhonda Boone, Jim Pickens, and Terri Pickens), and 15th place, Team Capps team (Hal Capps, Bill Whitaker, Harold Doran, Mark Blankenship.)
“We are thrilled with the growth of the tournament during the past five years and those who have been supporters. We anticipate it serving as a source of philanthropic revenue for the hospital in the future!” said Keith Travis, vice president of development at Murray-Calloway County Hospital.
The Anna Mae Owen Residential Hospice House is under constructions and was fully funded through donations secured by the Murray-Calloway Endowment for Healthcare. Once complete, the Hospice House will be an acute care, inpatient facility that is specifically designed to address the requirements and requests of patients facing end-of-life scenarios. Healthcare professionals will provide pain management, symptom control and medical procedures in a safe, home-like setting where families and friends are encouraged to visit.
The golf tournament will be held again next year, with a tentative date of Friday, September 2, 2016. For more information on the Endowment or to make a donation, call (270) 762-1908 or visit www.MCCHEndowment.org.
(Pictured is Keith Travis, vice president of development, left with Tim Thurmond, first-place HERITAGE BANK team shown in the fifth annual Murray-Calloway Endowment for Healthcare Golf Classic.)