14th annual Golf Tournament

Golfers and wannabes. What a beautiful day for golf. We were truly blessed again this year. The day started with temperatures around 70 for the 8:00 am shotgun start and reached the upper 80s under clear skies.

This year’s tournament was held at The Courses at Watters Creek in Plano on Wednesday, May 15^th. The course staff were wonderful to work with and they supported us with everything.

The tournament was a best ball scramble and included 33 teams of four, or 132 players. The final scores ranged from 54 to 74, with the median score of 61. We were able to award a 1^st and 2^nd prize to the top tier teams (top 16 teams), a 1^st and 2^nd prize to the second-tier teams (bottom 17 teams). In addition, every player drew for and was awarded a door prize at the end of play and we awarded numerous prizes for contests on more than half of the 18 holes. We raised about $11,639 this year to support several charities including our primary charity, the American Wheelchair Mission. Plus, we raised over $22,250 that will go toward paying off the loan for the Adoring Angels stained-glass windows behind the altar.

There were some great contest holes again this year, including a $10,000 hole-in-one.

If you would like details on all the winners visit https://SetonParish.org/KCGolf-Winners.

This goes without saying but I’m going to say it anyway. We can’t host an event like this without a lot of help and volunteers. There were 8 committee members who worked, starting in December to plan the event, thirty volunteers working both before and during the event, and another thirty or so who donated or solicited wine, alcohol, gift cards and prizes to make this event a success.

Every year we hear from the players that we host one of the best golf tournament events they have played in, a compliment to all our Brother Knights.

As in the past, we invite other councils to play in our event with a promise that we'll play in theirs. This year, council #5052 from Farmers Branch won our tournament with an 18 under par score of 54. Now that's a tough score to beat! I believe they’ve won two years in a row.