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Friday, June 26, 2009 10:45 PM

ASK A PROFESSIONAL: Can golf change lives?

By LINDA BROWN, Ask a Professional

Can you hit a golf ball 165 yards for a chance at $50,000 cash?

Golfers playing in the Habitat for Humanity Golf Classic, July 11, at the Ottawa Country Club all will have a chance if their name is selected during the $50,000 Shootout raffle drawing.

“All of the golfers’ names will be entered one time with their registration,” Dale Fox, Golf Classic chairman said. “Then, of course, we’ll sell raffle tickets for additional chances in the drawing. They’ll sell $5 for one and three for $10. We’ll draw four names for a chance at the $50,000.”

The day’s first-place team winners each will receive a four-day/ three-night vacation package for two adults and two children. There are 25 destinations to choose from, including Orlando, Las Vegas and Oahu.

Second-place team winners will receive a three-day/two-night version of the first-place vacation prize package.

Two tickets to a professional sporting event will go to the golfer winning the closest-to-the-pin contest and the one shooting the longest drive.

A five-day Carnival cruise for two will be awarded to the winner of the Lionel Sutton Putting Contest, and a sailing adventure for two on an America’s Cup Yacht will go to any golfer making a hole in one during the fundraising event.

If sailing’s not your bag, you may substitute your hole in one winnings for a white-water rafting adventure in California, a guided fly fishing journey to Vermont or a hot-air balloon escapade.

“There will be other opportunities to win prizes,” Fox said. “We’ve been given some pretty great stuff by local merchants like gift certificates to restaurants and oil changes to name a couple.”

The 2008 annual fundraiser had 19 teams. Fox is hoping for 36 this year.

“The more teams we have, the more money we make,” he said.

The goal of course is to raise enough money to build a Habitat home.

As 2008 drew to a close, the Franklin County Habitat for Humanity affiliate had helped 20 low-income families with either a new home or a major home renovation. Of those 79 individuals helped, 45 have been children.

During that same 15-year period, the local Habitat has been good neighbors to another 20 households with exterior painting projects.

Family selection committee chairperson Kay Pedersen said most people don’t understand the need that Habitat meets here in Franklin County.

“There is so much raw need out there it’s unbelievable,” she said. “Most people have no idea the squalor some of our children are living in.”

If you can’t help build a house, or just aren’t inclined to, you can help and have a good time as well, by registering to play in the Golf Classic. The first flight tees off at 7 a.m.; a second tees off at 1:30 p.m. Registrations before Wednesday are $300 per team or $100 for individual players. Entry costs include player fees, cart, lunch, tee gift and prizes.

Registration forms are available by calling Fox at (785) 248-6309 or you may register online at www.golfdigestplanner.com/9903-HabitatGolfClassic.

In the event of rain, the Golf Classic will be July 18.

Linda Brown is marketing director for The Ottawa Herald. E-mail her at lbrown@ottawaherald.com.

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By LINDA BROWN, Ask a Professional

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