Golfing for a cause: sixth annual Prindle golf tournament for hospice
GREENE – Since its inception in 2006, the Mary Jane Prindle Golf Tournament has raised approximately $33,000 for Hospice and Palliative Care of Chenango County. This year, organizers of the annual tournament decided a cross-county move was in order, as the Genegantslet Golf Club prepares to host the June 24th event for the first time.
Last year, nearly 20 teams participated in the tournament, which follows a captain and crew format. As in the past, the event will feature a skins game, putting contest, longest drive and closest to the pin challenges, and several hole-in-one contests, one of which includes a $7,500 cash prize.
Registration for the tourney is $300 per team or $75 per individual, and includes 18 holes of golf – with cart – and a picnic dinner. Non-golfers are welcome to attend the picnic dinner, as well, for a $20 fee.
Held in honor of Mary Jane Prindle, who passed away in October of 2005, the tournament and fundraiser is a way for the well known dental hygienist’s family to give back to Hospice, according to Mary Jane’s husband and event organizer Walt Prindle.
“It was a difficult time for all of us when Mary Jane died, and Hospice really helped us to get through that time in our lives,” said Prindle. “They do such a great job for the entire community and it was important to me to find a way to celebrate Mary Jane’s life and help Hospice at the same time.”
According to Hospice and Palliative Care of Chenango County Development and Community Relations Coordinator Donna Wood-Craig, the moneys raised through the tournament are extremely important to the organization. Hospice, she reported, is reimbursed by Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance – depending on a patients age – on a per diem rate. For each patient, Medicare sets a value per day, and that per diem rate has to cover all medications, medical equipment and all professional visits. Many patients, she added, exceed that per diem, and fundraisers benefiting Hospice help to fill that 20 percent gap between the organization’s reimbursement and the actual cost of patient care.
“We’re hoping for a good tournament and we’re encouraging people and businesses to sign-up,” stated Wood-Craig. “We’re focusing on the Greene community this year, where we held volunteer training for the event, and it’s a community where we want to increase awareness for Hospice.”
Registration for the tournament – and the putting contest – will begin at 10:30 a.m. on June 24, with a shotgun start at noon. Foursomes will be assigned a team handicap based on their individual handicaps.
“Hospice not only cares for their patients, but also the patient’s family,” said Prindle. “I don’t know what we would have done without the help we got from them.”
For more information on the tournament call 334-3556 or 226-2031. For information online visit www.hospicechenango.org.
Last year, nearly 20 teams participated in the tournament, which follows a captain and crew format. As in the past, the event will feature a skins game, putting contest, longest drive and closest to the pin challenges, and several hole-in-one contests, one of which includes a $7,500 cash prize.
Registration for the tourney is $300 per team or $75 per individual, and includes 18 holes of golf – with cart – and a picnic dinner. Non-golfers are welcome to attend the picnic dinner, as well, for a $20 fee.
Held in honor of Mary Jane Prindle, who passed away in October of 2005, the tournament and fundraiser is a way for the well known dental hygienist’s family to give back to Hospice, according to Mary Jane’s husband and event organizer Walt Prindle.
“It was a difficult time for all of us when Mary Jane died, and Hospice really helped us to get through that time in our lives,” said Prindle. “They do such a great job for the entire community and it was important to me to find a way to celebrate Mary Jane’s life and help Hospice at the same time.”
According to Hospice and Palliative Care of Chenango County Development and Community Relations Coordinator Donna Wood-Craig, the moneys raised through the tournament are extremely important to the organization. Hospice, she reported, is reimbursed by Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance – depending on a patients age – on a per diem rate. For each patient, Medicare sets a value per day, and that per diem rate has to cover all medications, medical equipment and all professional visits. Many patients, she added, exceed that per diem, and fundraisers benefiting Hospice help to fill that 20 percent gap between the organization’s reimbursement and the actual cost of patient care.
“We’re hoping for a good tournament and we’re encouraging people and businesses to sign-up,” stated Wood-Craig. “We’re focusing on the Greene community this year, where we held volunteer training for the event, and it’s a community where we want to increase awareness for Hospice.”
Registration for the tournament – and the putting contest – will begin at 10:30 a.m. on June 24, with a shotgun start at noon. Foursomes will be assigned a team handicap based on their individual handicaps.
“Hospice not only cares for their patients, but also the patient’s family,” said Prindle. “I don’t know what we would have done without the help we got from them.”
For more information on the tournament call 334-3556 or 226-2031. For information online visit www.hospicechenango.org.
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