100-Hole Golf Marathon - Three local PGA course head professionals, including Marc Bayram of Timberlin and Tim Gavronski of Shuttle Meadow Country Club, recently took part in the marathon event to raise funds for the Connecticut Golf Foundation, which supports several youth golf organizations.
The 100-hole marathon, which the trio of Bayram, Gavronski and Kyle Hedstrom of Stanley Golf Course in New Britain began at 6 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 3, has been completed every year by the group since 2011.
Gavronski had been taking part in the event for 11 years prior.
“I started it at Black Hall in Old Lyme with a professional friend of mine. He finally got tired of it, but I said I would keep doing it, so I invited Kyle and Marc because we used to work together. And it’s been great,” Gavronski said.
With the three in tow, Gavronski, along with Bayram and Hedstrom – both of whom worked as assistant professionals under Gavronski at Shuttle Meadow – have been raising some $10,000 each year for the CGF, a program that was founded by the PGA Connecticut Section.
“Over $100,000 is raised every year (for CGF),” Gavronski said. “It supports several activities, but mainly junior golf, and we’re all into junior golf. So it seemed like a good idea to continue to help the foundation and other various programs.”
“We have one of the better junior tours in the country, and it’s founded pretty much on generated dollars donated to the CGF organization, and it’s really something that we’re all behind because we’re big supporters of junior golf, and our juniors benefit from it here and I know they do elsewhere,” Gavronski said. (Golf Master Tips article source and author: Nate Brown)
100-Hole Golf Marathon
“It’s all for the future of the game, and it’s a pleasure to do something like this with the support of the people at our facilities,” Bayram said.The 100-hole marathon, which the trio of Bayram, Gavronski and Kyle Hedstrom of Stanley Golf Course in New Britain began at 6 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 3, has been completed every year by the group since 2011.
Gavronski had been taking part in the event for 11 years prior.
“I started it at Black Hall in Old Lyme with a professional friend of mine. He finally got tired of it, but I said I would keep doing it, so I invited Kyle and Marc because we used to work together. And it’s been great,” Gavronski said.
With the three in tow, Gavronski, along with Bayram and Hedstrom – both of whom worked as assistant professionals under Gavronski at Shuttle Meadow – have been raising some $10,000 each year for the CGF, a program that was founded by the PGA Connecticut Section.
“Over $100,000 is raised every year (for CGF),” Gavronski said. “It supports several activities, but mainly junior golf, and we’re all into junior golf. So it seemed like a good idea to continue to help the foundation and other various programs.”
Primary beneficiaries of the Connecticut Golf Foundation include Special Olympics, the First Tee program (a youth program that promotes strong life values) and the Junior Golf Tour of Connecticut, an event that has been heavily populated by young athletes from all three courses in recent years.
The success has been quite obvious in Berlin, as the high school girls golf team has taken home state titles in four of the last five years.
The success has been quite obvious in Berlin, as the high school girls golf team has taken home state titles in four of the last five years.
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