The Quilted Bromeliad: TCS Golf Tournament

Saturday we got up at 4:45 AM so we could be at a golf course by 6:00 AM. We were volunteers at the annual Christ School golf tournament, held this year at the golf club in Celebration, Florida. Celebration is a Disney-planned community southeast of DisneyWorld just south of the Orange County line in Osceola County. The whole community is planned to look like an old style community -- houses have front porches, garages are entered from an alley, and even the strip mall looks like an old set of farm buildings with tin roofs.

We helped set up the golf carts in the dark; each cart got two goodie bags and two polo shirts in the correct size of the participants. There were 55 carts and 110 golfers! This is TCS's 11 year and the eleventh time it has held a golf tournament / fund raiser. The tournament is a best ball competition and had a shotgun start.

Gayle and I were tasked to sit at a table at the tee of the 5th hole, a par 3. The deal was that the golfer would give us $10, and if they landed on the green with their tee shot, the golfer has a pick of neat stuff worth way more than the $10 put down. We had a lot of fun talking with and taking money from the golfers. Many of the folks were parents and grandparents of current and former students. I had my camera along and took lots of pictures...and we will use a few of them to delight our students!

There was a luncheon in the clubhouse after the golfing was done. We raffled off various prizes -- awards for longest drive and longest put, lowest score and highest score. We got home around 3:00 PM. We were whupped puppies! The day was sunny and near 90 degrees so we were hot and sweaty. It was a good day -- lots of good fellowship, good food and prizes, and if the work at hole number 5 is an indication, a financial success for TCS. We took in $530, and were just one of many hole competitions!