This upcoming weekend August 24-26 will be the 19th Annual Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic.
Here is a rundown of all the events, you can find all of this info at golfclassic.org
The golf tournament will be held on Sunday Aug 26 at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course on Centennial Campus with a 9:30am shotgun start, gates open at 8:30am. You can get your gallery tickets for only $5 here. More spectator information can be found here.
The current list of celebrities (which can often change up until the last minute) includes Charles Barkley and quite a few NCSU folks, such as Mark Gottfried, Tom Gugliotta, Torry & Terrence Holt, Dereck Whittenburg, Walt Dinsmore and freshman American Idol winner Scotty McCreery. The Carolina Hurricanes are scheduled to be represented by Chad LaRose, Kirk Muller, John Forslund, Bates Battaglia & Jesse Boulerice. Other celebs include members of Boyz II Men, ESPN’s Stuart Scott and Jay Harris and pro wrestler Sting.
On Friday night at 6:30pm the Reverse Raffle will be held at the Raleigh Convention Center. The final ticket drawn will win a 2012 BMW 128i and other prizes will be awarded at random. There are also silent auctions as well as heavy hors d’ouvres, a cash bar, and entertainment. And celebrities taking part in the Golf Classic will be stopping in to draw tickets and mingle with attendees. Tickets are $100, details are in the above link.
On Saturday night the V Gala will be held at the Raleigh Convention Center. You can find ticket information for the black tie event at the above link.
The goal for the 2012 Golf Classic is to fund a million dollar grant to research early diagnostics and treatments for 9-11 First Responders. In just 19 years, the Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic has donated nearly $15 Million to The V Foundation for Cancer Research.
If you can’t make it out to any of the events, please consider making a donation to the V Foundation, which awards 100 percent of all new, direct cash donations and net proceeds of events directly to cancer research and related programs. You can get more info and make a donation at jimmyv.org
If you can make it out to the events this weekend, please do. This will be my 13th year as a volunteer and it’s always a fun weekend. The celebrities are always happy to be there and willing to take pictures and sign autographs. And most importantly it all goes to benefit a great cause.
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