golf press release 2009
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Press Release FOR IMMEDEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: May 20, 2009
Stephanie Stangl
Communications Coordinator
(314)773-1100, ext. 1432
24th ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT BENEFITS RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
St. Louis, MO – May 20, 2009: The 24th Annual Colliers Turley Martin Tucker/Ronald McDonald
House Golf Tournament will be held Sunday, June 14th and Monday, June 15, 2009 at Forest Hills
Country Club. The weekend will begin with a dinner auction held on Sunday, June 14th in the Forest
Hills County Club Ballroom.
The tournament is a three-person scramble with a morning shotgun start at 7:00 a.m. and an afternoon
shotgun start at 1:00 p.m. Team registration starts at $1,725 and individual registration starts at $575.
Both registrations include the dinner auction. Various levels of corporate and hole-sponsorship are
available. Colliers Turley Martin Tucker is once again the title sponsor.
The event is one of the largest charity golf tournaments in St. Louis and has been a huge success every
year – last year nearly $700,000 was raised for the St. Louis Ronald McDonald House. For more
information or registration, visit the special events page at www.rmhcstl.com.
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The Ronald McDonald House provides a “home-away-from home” for families of seriously ill children traveling to
St. Louis for medical treatment. The facility has grown from an eight-bedroom facility in 1981, to now include two
houses, eight extended-stay apartments, and three Ronald McDonald Family Rooms – one at St. John’s Mercy
Medical Center, one at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, and one at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical
Center. The Ronald McDonald House provides comfort, care and lodging for up to 39 families every day of the
year.