Ladies Captain Chairty: over BD10,000 raised

Manama : Thanks to the support of Bahrain’s golfers and the generosity of multiple sponsors, over BD10,000 was raised at the third annual Ladies Captain Charity Golf Tournament at the Royal Golf Club. 

The money raised will be used to host fun activities to try and relieve the tedium for patients receiving cancer treatment at Salmaniya Hospital and re-energize them for continuing their fight against the disease.

80 golfers competed in the 18 hole Florida Scramble tournament last Friday which was organised by the Club’s 2017 Ladies Captain Stacey Thomas. The husband and wife duos of Matthew and Araceli Deakin and Edward and Martina O’Reilly (57.6) won the team event, followed in second place by Zuzar Madarwala, Ernst Webster and Phil and Julie Dixon (58.3).

The event was followed by a poolside barbecue at the Royal Country Club which featured a fund-raising raffle and auction. Items that went under the hammer included a TaylorMade M1 driver and golf ball signed by 2017 Masters Champion Sergio Garcia as well as an autographed Tiger Woods trading card set alongside a framed photo of the man himself. 

A commemorative 2017 US Masters “Arnie’s Army” badge, issued in memory of the recently departed Arnold Palmer, and many items of official US Masters merchandise were also included in the auction.