Help fight kidney disease. Sign up today for a Golf Classic Tournament near you!
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Gold Division winners, from Florida, were Jan Coup Tambogontook, Gary Sales, Felix Cortez and Anant Kokhar. |
26 million people have chronic kidney disease and another 20 million are at risk. By signing up to participate in a NKF Golf Classic Tournament, your entry fee, a portion of which is tax deductible, helps support the National Kidney Foundation, the leading voluntary health organization dedicated to the detection, prevention and treatment of kidney and urinary tract diseases. The NKF provides vital patient and community services, patient advocacy, public and professional education, research and organ donation programs.
All amateur golfers are encouraged to compete in the National Kidney Foundation Golf Classic. This exciting tournament presents an opportunity to participate in an inspiring event, to win valuable prizes—and to possibly receive an invitation to play at Pebble Beach!
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The links at Pebble Beach |
Each winning team from the local National Kidney Foundation Golf Classic Tournaments is invited to compete for the National Championship held at The Pebble Beach Resorts in January (registration fee required). The National Championship is a four-day tournament conducted over the famed Pebble Beach Golf Links, The Links at Spanish Bay, Poppy Hills and Del Monte. If the U.S. Open or the U.S. Amateur is not in your future, this is your only chance to compete for a National Championship at Pebble Beach!
To read about the 2008 NKF Golf Classic National Championship at Pebble Beach click here.
Golf Classic Tournaments are held all over the country from early spring until late fall. To learn more about how you can participate in upcoming local NKF Golf Classic Tournaments, click here.
The National Kidney Foundation Scores a Hole-In-One
The leaders in golf equipment and journalism are scoring a hole in one for the National Kidney Foundation. PING and Golf Digest have teamed up to help drive down kidney disease with a new campaign called Ping Fitted For Life.
This co-branded campaign between PING and Golf Digest offers golfers a great opportunity to check out local pictures of the tournaments. The site also features information about kidney disease, a schedule of local Golf Classic tournaments in cities all over the U.S. and spotlights the opportunity to play Pebble Beach during the NKF’s annual Golf Classic National Championship event.
"As the recipient of a kidney transplant, this partnership takes on a very special, personal meaning for me," says PING Chairman & CEO John Solheim, who underwent a kidney transplant in June of 2004. "The work of the National Kidney Foundation has profound effects on thousands of lives every day. PING is proud to associate with an organization so dedicated to its cause. Golf brings joy to those who play the game in many ways. The National Kidney Foundation Golf Classic is a perfect example of the good golf brings to our society."
Join the 10,000 golfers who compete in 60 local tournaments around the country each year to give those with kidney disease a better shot. Visit Ping Fitted For Life
