The Young Hearts Foundation

Event Information


12th Annual Ryan McLaughlin Memorial Golf Tournament
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Westfields Golf Club
(13940 Balmoral Greens Avenue, Clifton, Virginia)
For Directions, Click HERE

Event History


The tournament is held in memory of Ryan McLaughlin, an eighth-grader at Frost who lived in Mantua when he lost his courageous battle against leukemia in 1999. The tournament will benefit The Young Hearts Foundation in its support of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma and other blood cancers. The Young Hearts is a group of mostly teenagers from Mantua and surrounding neighborhoods who each year raise funds to fight leukemia.


Come out and support this worthy cause while having fun with your friends and neighbors. Don’t miss out! Form a team or we’ll put one together for you. The tournament is a friendly scramble format.


Don’t play golf? Can't make the whole day? Please join us for dinner and festivities afterwards. We need sponsors and contributors as well as golfers. Your support of this event will help The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society battle the number one child-killing disease in America. Help us show that “MANTUANS MAKE A DIFFERENCE!”

Event Schedule

11:30 AM: Check In
check in at the registration table, purchase mulligans and 50/50 raffle tickets, warm up on the driving range and putting green

1:00 PM: Shotgun Start

5:00 PM: Reception

6:00: Dinner
Live & Silent Auctions
50/50 Raffle Drawing (must be present to win)
Awards Ceremony

Awards:
First Place - Both Flights
Second Place - Both Flights
Longest Drive - Men & Women
Closest to the Pin
Longest Putt
Tournament Rules

We will play a captain’s choice (a.k.a. scramble) format. Each member of the team will drive. The team then chooses which drive (and subsequent shots) is best. All team members play from that chosen spot without changing surfaces. The only restriction is that a team must use at least three drives from each player. Remember to purchase your mulligans at check-in. Only four mulligans per foursome may be purchased. Teams may use the mulligans however they wish. For example, if your team purchases four mulligans, you may use those mulligans for any player/s.

 

In the event of a tie for the lowest team score, first place will be awarded to the team with the lowest score on the number 1 handicap hole (and if necessary, the subsequent lowest handicap holes).

 

Two flights will be determined by posting all team scores (low to high) and dividing the total number of teams by two, thereby creating a lower and higher score flight. An odd number team will be added to the higher scoring flight.

 

In addition to the individual trophies, the Mantua Cup will be engraved with the names of the first place team in the lower scoring flight and proudly displayed in the McLaughlin’s home.

 

Weather: We will play unless the course is closed. If in doubt, please call the course at 703- 631-3300