Published: July 19, 2008 10:17 pm         

New truck at stake in Coyle tourney

The Coyle School Foundation Golf Scramble may send one lucky golfer home in a new vehicle.

Wilson Chevrolet and Jeep of Stillwater will give away a 2008 Chevrolet truck to the first person who scores a hole-in-one on a selected par three hole at Cimarron Trails in Perkins on Aug. 1.

Danny Moorman, member of the Coyle School Foundation board, said this is the first year the tournament has offered a prize as big as this.

In the past four years the tournament has been held, prizes were awarded for first through third places, longest drive, closest to the hole and door prizes.

Hole sponsorships are available for $100. Most of the proceeds from the golf tournament will fund grants and projects for Coyle school teachers and students. The remainder will go to building an endowment. Moorman said fundraisers like this are much needed in Oklahoma.

“The state doesn’t fund the higher education — especially our secondary education — as well as what probably needs to be or could be,” he added.

“School foundations are very popular anymore and getting bigger because of the necessity that (schools) have to have them. So we just come in and bridge the gap between the things that the state can’t take care of — or won’t take care of — and what we really need.”

Since 2003, when the foundation was established, more than $20,000 in grants has been awarded to teachers, benefitting the students that attend Coyle School from Payne and Logan Counties.

Moorman said the tournament has usually drawn only a few kids younger than 15 or so. One participated last year, and Moorman said at least three will participate this year.

“A lot of our crowd that comes in is (Coyle School) alumni, who now own businesses, some of their employees and local people in the Stillwater, Coyle, Perkins, Guthrie areas,” he said.

The registration deadline was Tuesday; however, late registrations are welcome up to the day of the tourney. The registration fee is $55 and includes green fees, cart, lunch and door prizes. The event will begin at 8 a.m. with a shotgun start.

If interested in sponsoring a hole, signing up a team or as an individual, visit www.coyleschoolfoundation.com. Credit card payments are accepted online through PayPal.

     

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