First Annual RADO Open Charity Golf Tournament is Oct. 5 at Bent Creek

Sept. 14, 2010 - PRLog -- The Riverside Avondale Development Organization (RADO) is hosting its first golf tournament, Tuesday, Oct. 5 at award winning Bent Creek Golf Club on 103rd St.

All proceeds from the FIRST ANNUAL RADO OPEN will go towards the non-profit organization’s many community outreach programs.

Bent Creek Golf Course has long enjoyed the reputation as the City of Jacksonville's premier public golf course. Since Bent Creek's opening in 1989, the 6,620-yard, Par 71 course has provided a fun and challenging golf experience.

Crafted by renowned architect Bobby Weed with consulting services by Mark McCumber, Bent Creek's meandering terrain takes golfers through a certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary, towering pines, and alongside creeks and swales.  

The championship layout boasts Bermuda grass greens, plush fairways and a state-of-the-art lighted practice facility - home of the Bent Creek Golf Academy.

The RADO OPEN is a four-person scramble and includes a hamburger buffet and an awards reception following a spectacular day of golf. Check in is 8 a.m. with tee off time at 9 a.m. Cost is $55 per player or $200 per foursome.

There’s a variety of business sponsorship opportunities are available ranging from $100 to $500. There will also be a hole-in-one contest for a 2010 Ford Mustang Convertible from Duval Ford!

To sign up to play go to www.radogolf.com or call RADO at (904) 381-0950 for an entry form.

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Members from Riverside Avondale Preservation formed RADO in 1998 in an effort to make sure that the Riverside area continued to have a diverse mixture of housing and to restore some of the more blighted outlying areas of the community