Solheim Cup gives back
Information provided by Colorado Golf Club
The 2013 Solheim Cup, a history-making women’s golf tournament taking place at the Colorado Golf Club in Parker next month, will donate 15 percent of its ticket sales during the second half of June to the Colorado Professional Fire Fighters Foundation.
The funds will benefit the Foundation, which aids area fire fighters and their families. With recent fires raging in Canon City near the Royal Gorge and in Black Forest, just miles from Colorado Golf Club, organizers of the international match play event felt the need to give back.
“This is our way of saying thank you to all of the men and women who have worked so tirelessly to fight these horrible fires and to protect Colorado residents,” Solheim Cup Tournament Director Becky Newell said. “Fire fighters make tremendous sacrifices for others, and the Colorado Professional Fire Fighters Foundation is a great organization that looks after their best interests and well-being. We’re proud to be able to contribute in this way to those who do so much for us all.”
The 501(c)3 non-profit Foundation benefits Colorado fire fighters and their families and dependents who are victims of tragedies. Many of the needs of the widows, widowers and orphans of fallen fire fighters are overlooked after a tragedy. It was from this financial void that the Colorado Professional Fire Fighters Foundation was born.
For more info about the Foundation or to make donations, visit www.cpfffoundation.org. Tickets for the Solheim Cup can be purchased at www.SolheimCup.com or by calling 1-800-SOLHEIM.
More than 120,000 spectators are expected for the 2013 Solheim Cup, which takes place August 13-18 and features the top 12 womens professional golfers from Europe against the United States’ top dozen stars. Europe won the last Solheim Cup in Ireland in 2011, but the U.S. Team has never lost on home soil (6-0), making Colorado Golf Club a promising setting for an intense competition!
