Bob Labbance Fundraiser Set

In an unprecedented collaboration, golf course architecture-related groups and societies have banded together to support a fund raising event for New England writer Bob Labbance on June 23. The Vermont-based architecture and maintenance historian with over a dozen books to his credit is suffering from ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease).
The fundraising event will benefit him and his family. The event includes golf at Ekwanok Golf Club, Manchester, Vt., one of the country's historic courses, with a live auction to follow. Live music will be provided by Lloyd Cole.
Registration is at 9:30 a.m. with an 11 a.m. shotgun start. Brunch and supper are included in the $500 per person entry fee.
The event is co-sponsored by GCSAA, the American Society of Golf Course Architects, Golf Digest course raters, Golfweek's Best course raters, the Seth Raynor Society, the Donald Ross Society, the Wayne Stiles Society, the A.W. Tillinghast Society and the Walter Travis Society.
Auction items include rounds at Boston Golf Club (with architect Gil Hanse), Erin Hills GC, Fox Chapel GC, Kingsley Club (with architect Mike DeVries), Long Shadow GC (with architect Mike Young), Mountain Lake GC, Norwood Hills CC, Pacific Dunes (with architect Tom Doak), Renaissance GC (with architect Brian Silva), Sanctuary GC (with architect Jim Engh), Secession GC, Southern Hills Plantation, Sugarloaf Mountain Town & GC, Tobacco Road and Wintonbury Hills GC.
Co-chairs for the event are: Brad Klein, Golfweek; Tony Pioppi, golf writer; Nancy Powers, Southworth Development; and Chad Ritterbusch of the ASGCA.

Additional details will be available later this spring.

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