by Jeff Skinner
I am a golf fan, talk about stating the obvious. Each week I’ll watch the all the tours, Euro, PGA, LPGA, Web, Symetra…it really doesn’t matter. If it’s on television or close enough to me I’ll watch golf either from my couch or in person.
And this week always gets to me, The St. Jude classic, or officially The FedEx St. Jude Classic. Every week on the PGA Tour charities benefit from the tour event and this week’s main charity is St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
We all have seen the ads, Marlo Thomas continuing the work started by her comedian father, Danny who brought St. Jude’s into the national consciousness. Danny Thomas practically built St. Jude’s with his own hands back in the fifties.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has grown into a world class hospital with a very special mission: The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family’s ability to pay.
No family pays for treatment, travel, housing or food while their child is being treated at St. Jude’s. If that doesn’t boggle the mind nothing will.
Now, it’s great that we get to see some great golf this week in Memphis at TPC Southwind but what is truly wonderful is the cash raised to help St. Jude continue to do the miraculous: saving children’s lives.
Click here to learn more about St. Jude’s and please click here to donate to St. Jude’s. Every dollar matters and there isn’t a better cause on the face of the earth.
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I could not agree with you more. This is just a wonderful event and to have the PGA support something this important is just fantastic. Danny Thomas was a wonderful man and loved children and what he did with this cause, is second to none. So I am with you a 100%. I watch everything that has to do with golf each week also, but to see those smiling faces of those young, and in some cases very young, so sick, but with a smile on their loving faces. I am not sure what the parents would do when they learned that their child was so sick with cancer (i would be devastated) and to know that they can go to St. Judes, have their little budle of joy treated and know that they are not going to be broke, filing bankrupsy and worse. With out the love of Danny Thomas and his family, who knows what those families would have to do. God bless you Danny Thomas and your family, you have and are changing peoples lives…