Annually Fore Hope hosts their most prestigious fundraiser Wednesday of the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide Insurance week. Our breakfast began in 1991 with PGA Tour Professional Kenny Perry as our featured speaker.
The 2012 Fore Hope Annual Breakfast will be held Wednesday, May 30th and will return to The Country Club at Muirfield Village. Also new this year...our event will be a champagne breakfast...to celebrate the camaraderie of attendees and the beginning of a great golf day!
STUART APPLEBY will be one of our Featured Speakers this year!
Stuart turned professional in 1992 and began his career on the PGA Tour of Australasia. He has won nine times on the PGA Tour. He was a member of the International Team in the Presidents Cup four times and featured in the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings in 2004. His best performance in a major championship came in 2002, where he lost in a four way play-off to Ernie Els at The Open Championship.
In 2010, during the final round of the inaugural Greenbrier Classic, Appleby became the fifth player in history to shoot a 59 in an official PGA Tour event. Appleby won the Greenbrier and received the 2010 PGA Tour Comeback Player of the Year award.
Attendees at our breakfast will receive a ticket to that day’s ProAm, The Memorial Tournament magazine and also a pass to the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational to be held during the week of July 23rd at The Ohio State University Scarlet Golf Course.
Admittance is by reservation only! Individual cost, $125. Table for ten, $1,000. Sponsorships are available at several levels. Reservations for one, half table for five, table for ten or more! Online reservations until Friday, May 18th! Please call our office at 614-784-1111 for more information on sponsorships or to RSVP.
LIVE auction only to be held during the breakfast. As of 5/15/12, auction items include golf at the following:
1. The Bogey Bar & Grill – “Memorial Tournament week – busiest bar & grill” - Namesake Custom Cocktail – your concoction with your name – served all summer long
2. Fifth Third Bank Broadway Series - War Horse – Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - $100 Dinner Certificate – AND - Tickets to the 25th Dublin Irish Festival
3. The Country Club at Muirfield Village – “30 year tradition of golf & exceptional services & facilities” - Golf for four with carts
4. Gold Canyon Golf Resort – 5 Star Golf Resort – located in the foothills of scenic Superstition Mountain - Tim Berg Memorial Golf Package - 3 night stay, January 24-28th, 2013 – Round of golf for two at Dinosaur Mountain Golf Course and at Sidewinder Golf Course and two entries to tournament (Sunday, January 27, 2013), $150 Gift Card
5. Longaberger Golf Club – “Voted #56 Public Golf Course in America by Golf Digest in 2011” - Golf for four with carts – AND - Scotts Miracle-Gro Company - 4-Step Turf Builder Lawn Program & Spreader
6. Mohican Hills Golf Course – “2008 Public Golf Course of the Year” - Jeromesville, OH - Golf for four with carts – AND - Columbus Crew – 2 Tickets to 2012 regular season home game
7. Muirfield Village Golf Club – “Famous tournament course of Jack Nicklaus” - Golf for four and lunch – Does NOT include caddy
8. Scioto Country Club – Home of 2016 U. S. Senior Open - Golf for four - Caddy fees are NOT included
9. USGA Senior Open - Indianwood Golf & Country Club in Lake Orion, MI, July 9-15 - Four (4) Grounds ticket packages – AND - Autographed book by Harvey Penick - And If You Play Golf, You’re My Friend
Expected attendance is (limited to) 270. Free parking in The Country Club at Muirfield Village lot adjacent to Muirfield Village Golf Course.
NEW THIS YEAR --- Golf was available on May 30th at The Country Club at Muirfield Village --- FOR BREAKFAST ATTENDEES ONLY!!! NOTE; Deadline is over...you cannot register for golf!
All proceeds benefit Fore Hope’s many therapeutic golf programs. Fore Hope is supported in part by the Memorial Tournament / PGA Tour and The United States Golf Association.
2012 Breakfast Sponsors (as of 3/9/12):
Presenting Sponsor - The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
Supporting Sponsor - Fifth Third Bank
Friend Sponsors - Ernst & Young and Cali & Richard Smith III / Hillsdale Fund
2011 featured speakers were Ohio's own Ben Curtis and Brett Wetterich.
Other speakers over the years have included Paul Azinger, Chip Beck, Brad Faxon, David Feherty, Jim Furyk, Tim Herron, famed local golf course architect Dr. Mike Hurdzan, Peter Jacobsen, Tom Lehman, Rocco Mediate, Larry Mize, Joe Ogilvie, Tom Pernice, Jr., Jeff Sluman, Dennis Walters and Kathy Whitworth, one of the 2002 Memorial Tournament honorees.
