26th Annual Bank of America Championship, the Champions Tour's Craig Stadler and Smith & Wollensky Boston Team Up for Charity
May 22, 2006
CONCORD, Mass - For the second consecutive year the
Bank of America Championship, the Champions Tour's Craig Stadler, who
won the tournament in 2004, and Smith & Wollensky are teaming up for
charity.
The Craig Stadler-Smith & Wollensky Dinner, held during the Bank of
America Championship's tournament week on Wednesday, June 7, 6:30 p.m.
at Smith & Wollensky in Boston, will feature 12 Champions Tour pros
competing in the tournament and benefit The Genesis Fund and Disabled
Sports USA. Champions Tour memorabilia will highlight the event's silent
auction to benefit the charities.
Award-winning Smith & Wollensky chefs will prepare a five-course meal
for guests, and the bar will be complimentary. In addition, each guest
will receive a gift package that will include a Cross pen, bottle of
Greg Norman Estates wine, a bottle of Smith & Wollensky steak sauce, a
Craig Stadler autographed hat and Bank of America Championship tickets.
Tickets for the event are limited to 12 tables of nine, and a Champions
Tour player will be seated at each table. Champions Tour dinner
participants will include Craig Stadler, Morris Hatalsky, Mark McNulty,
Dana Quigley, Tom Purtzer, Des Smyth and Dave Stockton.
A table of nine is $3,600, and individual seats are $500 each. To order
dinner tickets, please call Denise Greska at 978-371-0116 or email
dgreska@bankofamericachampionship.com.
Founded in 1982 by long-time WBZ-TV and radio medical commentator Murray
Feingold, M.D., The Genesis Fund is a nonprofit organization that raises
money for the specialized care and treatment of New England-area
children born with birth defects, mental retardation and genetic
diseases. The Genesis Fund has raised more than $20 twenty million
dollars in the past 20 years through special events and private and
corporate contributions and its affiliation with the Children's Miracle
Network.
A favorite cause of Craig Stadler's, Disabled Sports USA is a national
nonprofit organization established in 1967 by disabled Vietnam veterans
to serve the war injured and now offers nationwide sports rehabilitation
programs to anyone with a permanent disability. Participants include
those with visual impairments, amputations, spinal cord injury,
dwarfism, multiple sclerosis, head injury, cerebral palsy and other
neuromuscular and orthopedic conditions.
The Bank of America Championship has given back to the community
throughout its 25-year history, having donated more than $4 million to
more than 40 charitable organizations in eastern Massachusetts, with a
focus on those in the Assabet Valley region. Local beneficiaries have
included Emerson Hospital and the Boys and Girls Club of Assabet Valley,
as well as The Genesis Fund.
For complete information on the twenty-sixth annual Bank of America
Championship, June 5-11, Nashawtuc Country Club, Concord, visit
www.bankofamericachampionship.com.
