Scleroderma Foundation to Benefit
from Golf Fundraisers
Bobbi Salmon, the golf teaching professional who lives
with scleroderma, is organizing a nationwide effort
to raise money for and awareness of the disease. Called
100 X $1,000, her goal is to raise at least $1,000 per
golf tournament or clinic to support scleroderma.
Bobbi, whose “Because I Believe Nothing Is Impossible”
motto led to the development of the Foundation’s
public service announcements, has had to limit her golf
playing schedule as a result of her condition. However,
she is committed to doing what she can to raise money
and awareness of scleroderma. Recently, Bobbi was featured
in a lengthy segment on the Golf Channel, and now she
is using her network of friends and colleagues to hold
charitable events around the country to benefit people
living with the disease.
Unlike annual golf tournaments held by chapters in
which many of the participants have a personal connection
to scleroderma, the players in these tournaments will
most likely not have a network to the disease. Thus,
these events will educate a new and large audience about
scleroderma.
It is Bobbi’s hope, and ours as well, that the
100 X $1,000 becomes an annual event, or until a cure
is found. The teaching professionals involved in these
events are donating their time to organize events and
raise money and for that we thank them.
The first tournament will be held Feb. 12 in Palm
Desert, California. To date, two other golf tourneys
and two events have been scheduled. Also, a teaching
professional from North Carolina, and a friend of Bobbi’s,
has agreed to donate $1,000 from her own pocket. The
last event will be held sometime in May.
In a related matter, Bobbi, who on occasion competes
in the Legends Tour (the senior women professional golf
circuit), has finalized a deal to further help out scleroderma.
On April 9, a pro-am will be held the week of the Legends’s
Ginn Tournament, which will take place next to Orlando.
The professional golfers have agreed to participate
in the event, with the funds from the tourney to benefit
the disease.
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