The third playing of the Northern Ohio PGA HOPE Cup – an event conducted by the Northern Ohio PGA Foundation to celebrate the members of our country’s Armed Forces through a day of golf, inspiration, awards, lunch and fun – will be held Wednesday, August 6 at Avon Oaks Country Club.
PGA HOPE is an acronym for Helping Our Patriots Everywhere.
17 teams consisting of one member of the NOPGA (serving as a captain) and four veterans, many of whom are overcoming physical and/or emotional disabilities and have been part of the PGA HOPE program throughout the year, will play a 9-hole scramble beginning at 9:15 a.m.
Each of the 17 NOPGA members have been trained in adaptive golf and military cultural competency.
THE PROFESSIONALS SERVING AS TEAM ‘CAPTAINS’:
PGA HOPE Chagrin Falls – Ross Keen, PGA
PGA HOPE Secretary’s Cup – Erin Craig, PGA
PGA HOPE Medina – Team 1 – Trevor Hazen, PGA
PGA HOPE Medina – Team 2 – Jim Wise, PGA
PGA HOPE Elyria – Barry Friedman, PGA
PGA HOPE West Toledo – Brad Heilman, PGA
PGA HOPE Aurora – Todd Ekstrand, PGA
PGA HOPE Shawnee Hills – Ben Ladaika, PGA Associate
PGA HOPE Mentor – Team 1 – Kevin Sullivan, PGA
PGA HOPE Mentor – Team 2 – Jake Weise, PGA Associate
PGA HOPE Clearview – Men – Rick Sargent, PGA
PGA HOPE Clearview – Women – Renee Powell, LPGA/PGA
PGA HOPE Ravenna – Ann Ciavarella, LPGA
PGA HOPE Macedonia – Team 1 – Dan Dauk, PGA
PGA HOPE Macedonia – Team 2 – Ned Weaver, PGA
PGA HOPE Hubbard – Tom Parteleno, PGA
PGA HOPE Mill Creek – Dave Boos, PGA
Former Cleveland Browns and Kent State standout Josh Cribbs, PGA Hall-of-Famer Renee Powell, and Jimmy Hanlin, Director of Golf and TV/radio host will be on hand to support this worthy cause that is another example of the NOPGA and its Foundation of giving back to the community.
