an efficient venture for ken venturi dies

 six months ago, many of the top names in skilled golf paid tribute to actually the late beau venturi by taking part in within the pro-am to actually raise cash for a fresh shelter for abused ladies of collier county to actually be named in her honor.

davis love iii, ernie els, steve elkington, greg norman, mark omeara, tom kite, tom watson and david duval were among those who showed up on the own at naples eagle creek country club. cbs golf analyst jim nantz was the emcee and golf legend gene sarazen made one amongst his final public appearances previous to actually his death.

ken venturi, the 1964 u. s. open champion, longtime cbs golf commentator and beau s husband, aforesaid thursday that building the new shelter is coming that much closer. the tournament itself raised over $850, 000. add within the $500, 000 state grant, another $300, 000 anonymous donation and venturi aforesaid a total of $1. 9 million has actually been raised.

i believe thats pretty impressive, he aforesaid. weve got the land ( six acres ).

venturi was back at eagle creek country club to actually host southwest florida golf charities presentation of equipment grant awards to actually athletic directors from barron collier, naples, gulf coast, lely, immokalee and st. john neumann high schools.

the only real regret venturi has in regards to the beau venturi home golf outing event is it wasnt taped.

its like going out and saying im visiting build a hole-in-one, therefore take a movie of the, he aforesaid. with others players, we couldve sold it along the country and compiled a mass of cash if we suffered a skilled video team to try and do it.

however how will you predict a home run or possibly a grand slam or possibly a hole-in-one ?

earlier this year, venturi was named captain of one's 2000 presidents cup. it might make sense then that venturi would make an appearance for the ryder cup, that starts in massachusetts in 2 weeks. however venturi wont be there albeit captain ben crenshaw invited him.

venturi desires to actually take away any second-guessing regarding choices crenshaw makes.

all the press can do is say... might you suppose it was eventually the ideal call ? venturi aforesaid. would you have got made that call ? might you suppose or a right ? i aforesaid that's your day and you run making use of it. im not going, albeit i will be able to be watching it terribly closely.

venturi too has actually been busy from the his commentating duties.

he personally was on hand to actually supervise the reshaping of one's greens and tees at eagle creek. he too designed his own forged ken venturi irons for orlimar. those can come back out for the pga golf show in orlando. and he has actually been asked to actually be a consultant to actually redesign a san francisco course that could serve just like the website of one's 2002 pga tour championship.

venturi still made time to actually return for thursdays presentations.

i told the ( athletic directors ), i aforesaid if you have got somebody special that you think that has potential, you decision me and ill be glad to actually help, he aforesaid.