Willing Warriors take the Green

This past Monday October 6th Serve Our Willing Warriors' 2nd Annual Golf tournament brought together motivated golfers and socially responsible corporations to take a swing at bringing wounded warriors and their families to the Bull Run Warrior Retreat. While enjoying a day out on the green, golfers had the opportunity to network with other professionals and build camaraderie with 32 wounded warriors in attendance at the event.

One group of wounded warriors in attendance at the 2nd Annual SOWW Golf Tournament

With smiles on their faces, the wounded warriors and their loved ones arrived that morning ready to play and were simply happy to get outside of their medical environment. One family in particular shined in their enjoyment on the field and expressed their gratitude for allowing not only the warrior but his wife and child to be able to participate as a unit!

A wounded warrior alongside his wife and son on the 9th hole green 

This couple's son William had actually recently become famous in the local newspapers for having putted his ball perfectly off the green in a game of golf last month. Below is the shot that the front page under the Sports and Recreation Briefs featured with his beautiful smiling face!

Little William, age 3, in the newspaper prior to the SOWW Golf Tournament

Analyzing the green

Little William debating his next put

Nothing like the bonding of a father and son

It is smiles like these that keep Serve Our Willing Warriors fighting for these families and their quality time together. We would like to give a special thanks to SMGA and Ft. Belvoir for helping us organize the attendance of the wounded warriors' golf outing. We had some truly amazing soldiers with positive attitudes in attendance that made an ample effort to thank each and every person they saw sporting a SOWW shirt any chance they got. 

 

It is often said that "it's the simple things in life" that make it all worth while. Today, for the 32 wounded warriors and their families, it was the simple enjoyment of a day out on the green alongside their biggest supporters. Special thank you to Jeff Glenn for all of his hard work in putting together this event for us! Here is the star below with his SOWW team being recognized by the House of Delegates: 

Please enjoy our event photos below! 

FH. FURR provided a vehicle from combat recovery for all of our players to sign the day of the event

Wounded warriors of Ft. Belvoir up bright an early

The Moores ready to take on the green

These ladies are all smiles!

Never a boring moment with these guys

Lovely ladies of the green 

Wounded Warrior Don and his crew

Amazing view of the helicopter after the ball drop

Taking measurements to determine the winner of the $2,500

Event golfers discussing the top 3 closest balls 

Thank you for reading! 

SOWW'S INAUGURAL GOLF TOURNAMENT ~ 2013 ~

 
On October 15, “Serve Our Willing Warriors” hosted our Inaugural Golf Tournament at Dominion Valley Country Club in Haymarket, VA.  All the proceeds of the fundraising event will go directly to the renovation of the “Bull Run Warrior Retreat” lodging house that is now underway. 

Player participation was so overwhelming that online registration had to be closed a week prior to the event. There were also a number of players who came to register the day of the tournament. We just couldn’t turn anyone away, so the final head count was 136 players!

SOWW President Shirley Dominick's foursome included one of our honored 

"Willing Warriors".

Some of our players wanted to remind everyone 

"Who and What" they are golfing for! 

As you can see by the pictures, everyone had a wonderful & patriotic time.

 

 

 Even a young non-Golfer had fun at the event and displayed her patriotic pride!

Immediately following play, a unique "Helicopter Golf Ball Drop" raffle was held at the practice range area, offering a “closest ball-to-pin” prize of $2500. 

Hundreds of numbered golf balls were dropped about 
100 feet over a flagstick.

There was time for everyone to mix and mingle at the luncheon afterwards.

During the luncheon, Mr. Jim Love was announced as the grand prize winner.  Upon receiving his award,  he immediately returned the $2500 check to SOWW. His gracious “pay-it-forward” action will be used towards the Bull Run Warrior Retreat house renovation.

Thank you very much Jim . . . 

You have set the bar high as a very generous example for our future tournaments!

Some of the many gracious and supportive sponsors for the tournament included;  

Agile Business Concepts, Data Tactics Corporation, Fulton Bank, OGSystems, Fairway Mortgage, and Sentara Healthcare.   

Other companies, including Keller Williams Realty, W. C. Ralston Architects, and   A1 FloodTech, fielded multiple foursomes in support of the event.  

As always, we are so(ww) grateful for your ongoing efforts on behalf of 

Serve Our Willing Warriors.

Many, many thanks to EVERYONE who attended and has helped us to get even closer to our goal of establishing the Bull Run Warrior Retreat!  
We hope you had as good a time as we did.  

  

(GOLFERS, this is an event you will NOT want to miss next year!)

NOTE:  Special thanks to our great photographers, Kelsy Dominick, Jessie Jacobsen, Joanne Hilliard and Carol Griffith,  for capturing the events of the day.

 

Sponsorship Opportunities for Our Inaugural Golf Tournament

 

Hey Golf Fans! 

 

 There are still some Sponsorship Opportunities available for our upcoming 

Inaugural Golf Tournament on October 15, 2013.

 

If interested -- please contact John Dominick at  

info@willingwarriors.org

  

If you haven't registered for the Golf Tournament yet -- time's a-wastin'!!! 

 

 Visit our website and register! 

 Click Here!

Coming Soon! SOWW's Inaugural Golf Tournament

Calling all Golfers!

 SOWW's Inaugural Golf Tournament is coming very soon!

To Register Online Click HERE!