The second annual O’Ryan Project Golf Tournament took place on Wednesday June 18th 2008 at National Pines Golf Club. We have the distinct pleasure of being the ‘signature event’ for the Barrie Examiner’s Tim Horton’s Charity Golf Tour. Registering participants were greeted by a delicious cup of Tim Horton’s Coffee as they received their golfer gift and goodie bags. The golfer gift this year was a beautiful O’Ryan Project engraved watch to clip onto your golf bag and the goodie bag was filled with a multitude of interesting products such as; Tim Horton’s gift Certificates, Baycat’s Tickets, Canadian Tour Championship Tickets, makeup for the ladies, fishing lures, perfume samples, food products, dish soap, handi wipes, full size bags of potato chips, scratch pads, screwdriver sets, beer cozies the list goes on and on. Thank you to Sobeys for donating the recyclable grocery bags that were filled to the brim by many donating partners. After the golfers were loaded up with their goodies they were off to their golf carts for more surprises. Each golfer received free sleeves of golf balls, tees, huge Club Link golf towels, water, candy and potato chips in their carts to help start the day. A delicious BBQ lunch was served on the patio that included burgers, chicken, sausages and a multitude of salads with delicious home baked gourmet cookies.

The driving range was open at 11am for warm up and Callaway Golf was on site to show our golfers some of their latest products. Callaway later went out onto the course with their amazing selection of drivers and hosted a longest drive contest on one of the holes using their products. Prizes were new Callaway golf bags. Joining Callaway on the course for more festivities was Moxie’s Classic Grill. Moxie’s had a BBQ set up on one hole where they were serving up samples of their tasty steak and grilled mushrooms and on another hole two of the well known Moxie’s girls were mixing up and serving some of their popular martinis. Also on the course was Labatt’s serving up some tasty samples. Your choice of Keith’s or Bud Light was available. All on course activities were included in the cost of your $20. players passport, which also entitled you to a passport holders draw.

A shotgun start at 12:30 got all of the 128 (maximum) golfers off to a great start. The tournament included all of the usual contests, closest to the pin on all par three’s, hole in one prizes, putting contests, longest drives for ladies and men and most accurate drive. A new contest called closest to the shopping cart (a small toy cart was placed into a sand trap) netted the winner a $250. Sobey’s gift certificate. The pace of play moved fairly quickly and all golfers were back into the clubhouse by 5:30 for a complimentary cocktail courtesy of Labatt’s. Back at the club house each participating lady was presented with a long stem rose as she came in from the course.

A fabulous prime rib dinner was served to all the participants with 2 complimentary bottles of Australian wine on each table. Sponsors were recognized for their participation with framed certificates of appreciation from the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, clocks and thermometers and specialty chocolates. This was followed by a moving and informative talk about CF by Dave Madder. Dave is an adult with CF that is living in the area. Dave’s positive attitude and courage in adversity was an inspiration to all who had the pleasure of hearing his message. Awards, amazing prizes, raffle draws and an auction followed. Auction items included concert tickets, Muskoka resort getaways and Club Link Golf Certificates.