Nanci Bowen golf tournament set in Tifton on Monday

TIFTON — The annual Nanci Bowen Charity Event golf tournament will be held at the Spring Hill Country Club on Monday to benefit the special needs of Tift Regional Health System hospice and cancer patients.

The event is a four-person scramble with a shotgun start at 1 p.m. Coordinators said dinner will be served and prizes awarded immediately following the tournament.

A Tifton native, Bowen is a retired Ladies Professional Golf Association tour player who attended the University of Georgia on a full golf scholarship and joined the LPGA immediately after graduating in 1989 with an undergraduate degree in public relations. Bowen’s professional golf career was highlighted in 1995 with a win at the Nabisco Dinah Shore, one of the LPGA’s four major championships.

Other notable achievements included two runner-up finishes in 1997 at the Rochester International and the Susan G. Komen International, plus numerous Top 10 finishes at LPGA tournaments between 1994 and 2005. She started the annual charity golf tournament in Tifton 18 years ago.

“We are grateful to Nanci for launching this annual event and lending her name to the tournament for so many years,” Tournament Chairwoman Louise Woodham said. “It’s a fun, competitive day benefiting a great cause.”

Each player on the winning team will receive two nights’ stay and one round of golf at The King and Prince resort hotel. There will also be second- and third-place prizes, a hole-in-one contest for a new car as well as a closest-to-the-pin and pink ball competitions.

Platinum sponsors of the event include Affinity Physicians for Women and United Obstetrics and Gynecology. The practices include The Howard Center for Women’s Health, South Georgia Physicians for Women and Tifton Woman’s Center.

Gold sponsors include Art Plumbing, ConvergeOne/CISCO, Perkins and Will, and Valdosta Electric Company. Silver sponsors include Central Plumbing, Credit Bureau Associates of Georgia and Forerunner Technologies Inc./NEC.

Bronze sponsors include Albritton Funeral Directors, Ashley’s Business Machines, Bowen Donaldson Home for Funerals, CooperCraft Communications, Lovein Funeral Home Inc., Moon’s Pharmacy Inc., Dr. James MacDonald and Dr. Jessica Beier. Friends include Health Systems Management, Jason McGovern Family Dentistry, Dr. and Mrs. Steve Rigdon, and Turner’s Furniture.

Interested participants can form a team or sign up as a corporate sponsor. There are multiple sponsorship opportunities, and the team fee is $400. For more information, visit www.tiftregional.com or call (229) 353-6330.

Spring Hill Country Club is located at 5 E. Springhill Road in Tifton.

Jennifer Parks