Past events

Golf Tournament Benefiting The Lithuanian World Center

2011-06-25 12:00:00

A huge factor in having a successful golf tournament is to have nice weather.  This years Liberty Mutual Invitational benefiting the Lithuanian World Center took place on Saturday, June 25^th, 2011.  The Tuesday, before the golf tournament, Illinois got hit by two tornadoes.  It seems like the weather is constantly changing this year. “God really came thru and blessed us with the most beautiful sunny day, we were off to a good start”, stated Daiva Rugienius, the tournament coordinator.

We had 30 volunteers arrive early to help set up the tournament.  We hung American flags and Lithuanian flags on each of the golf carts.  Linas Cepele built a six-foot high chipping wall.  Golfers had to chip over the wall and see who was closest to a hole they couldn’t actually see.

During registration, we ran our famous Mr. Koldunas contest.  To win this contest you had to hit a frozen Koldunas the farthest.  This years’ Mr. Koldunas is Vincas Staniskis.  Our beautiful volunteers wore pink shirts that said, “Kiss me I’m Lithuanian”.  The embroidery was donated by Lina Smilgiene from Lina Embroidery.  The ladies sold contest packages, raffle tickets and mulligans.  They raised a lot of money for the Lithuanian World Center at registration.

The complimentary bar, which opened at noon, was stocked with plenty of donated Svyturys and Kalnapilnis, Lithuanians favorite beer. Accurate Translation and Linas Kastys donated the water.  Each golf cart had a box lunch from Jimmy John’s donated by the Grazina Liautaud Charitable Trust.  She not only provided lunch for all the golfers, but the volunteers too.

The golfers started the tournament at 1:00pm.  On the course they were treated to several food stations.  Century 21 Pro’s and Ruta Susinskas donated the pizza.  Two Rivers made the Kugelis on hole #14.  The ladies from the Lithuanian World Center donated over 1,000 koldunai for one of our most popular food stations by the clubhouse.

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