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2010 Foundation Golf Class - SAVE THE DATE!

The 9th Annual Foundation 2010 Golf Classic promises to be even better than last year!  It will be held on Thursday, September 16th, 2010 with registration at 10 am, driving range and lunch buffet at 11:00 am, Shotgun Tee with a scramble format at 12:00 pm, followed by our enhanced reception at Cornell’s Robert Trent Jones 18-hole Course.  Changes include an earlier tee time and an enhanced reception that will replace the banquet.  We will include our traditional raffle and prizes during the reception, and wrap up a bit earlier!

For more information, including sponsorship opportunities and for player registration, click here for our 2010 Golf Brochure.

2009 Foundation Golf Classic Highlights!

The weather was a bit overcast, but as promised by the local weatherman.. the skies cleared and the sun shone on the Annual Foundation Golf Classic held at the Robert Trent Jones Course, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY on Thursday, September 17th as 32 teams hit the greens.

 

2009 Classic: 

Sponsors:
¥ 
Awards Reception - Farm Family Life Insurance Co. & Casualty Insurance Co. 

¥  Luncheon ~ First Pioneer Farm Credit  & WNY Farm Credit 

¥  Golf Carts ~ Long Island Farm Bureau

¥ Photography & All Refreshments ~ Amburg Nursery

¥  Gift Sponsor/Beverage Sponsor ~ NYFB Member Services

¥  Awards ~ Canandaigua Wine

¥  Hole in One ~ Local Dodge dealers throughout NYS

¥  Hole in One ~ for Hole #12 – Toshiba Business Solutions

¥  Putting Contest ~ Support Services Alliance, Inc. & Monsanto / Agri-Invest

¥  Raffle ~ Vinnie Daly- FFI, Broome County Farm Bureau, Caro Vail, Fenimore Asset Management, Lutz Feed, Genex

¥  Prize Sponsor – IZZO

¥  Driving Range ~ Howard, Liberatore & Wickham 

¥  Our Specialty Classic Ice Cream ~ Northeast Dairy Foods Assoc. prepared by Morrisville State College   

¥  Pre-Classic Refreshments ~ Community Bank N.A.

¥  Pre-Classic Refreshments ~ Jay Gerlitz & Assoc.

¥  Pre-Classic Refreshments ~ Blue Seal Dairy Nutrition

¥  Pre-Classic Refreshments ~ Lyons National Bank

¥  Registration Table & Balls ~ Paul Riven/Melissa Riven Mirabile

¥  Registration Table ~ SUNY Cobleskill

¥  Registration Table ~ Paul Riven and Melissa Riven Mirabile - Morgan Stanley

¥  Beverage Sponsors ~ Dairylea/DFA, Glen Mountain Market

¥  Wine Sponsors ~ NY Wine & Grape Foundation

¥  Beer Sponsor ~ Schuyler County Farm Bureau

¥  Water Sponsor ~ Harford Glen Water

Plus all those who donated for tee signs, food, beverage, our many friends in the wine industry and many wineries … we have “tasted” the goodness of NY Products!

Other contributors of golf balls, food, beverage, raffle gifts, prizes, etc.

v  Mr. Paul Riven

v  New York Corn Growers

v  Bond Vineyards

v  Anthony Road Wine Co.

v  Barrington Cellars

v  Fox Run Vineyards

v  Treleaven – King Ferry Winery

v  Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards

v  Fulkerson Winery

v  Lamoreaux Landing Wine Cellars

v  Long Point Winery

v  Martha Clara Vineyards

v  Paumonok Vineyards

v  Pindar Vineyards & Winery

v  Six Mile Creek Vineyard

v  Glen Mountain Market

v  P & C

v  The Albany Marriott

v  Learn Motors

v  Whole Foods

v  McCadam Cheese

 

2009 Classic Winners List 

HOLE IN ONE:  Travis Smith – Porter Agency Team/Genesee County Farm Bureau Team

Dodge Sponsored: 

Hole #12:  Autographed Print Collection from Marci Rule

Toshiba Business Solutions Sponsored:

Hole #12:  Trip to two to NYC, with hotel, dinner and theater tickets

LOWEST TEAM SCORE

1st– Genesee County Farm Bureau/Porter Agency Team

2nd –The Fore Musketeers – Cornell University

3rd – Lloyd Kinnear Foursome

MOST HONEST TEAM – Eden’s Bee Foursome 

CLOSEST TO THE PIN   
1st:  Ron Gruschow – The Gray Agency
                                                                       
2nd:  Mike McCall – The Fore Muskateers-Cornell Univ.         

Top Farm Bureau Team – Genesee County Farm Bureau

Skins: Farm Credit (hole #9), Genesee CFB (hole #12-HOLE IN ONE! TRAVIS SMITH), NYFB/FFI Partnership Team (hole #13), the Puttologists/Cornell (hole #16).

Putting Contest:  Chris Wickham

County teams:  Broome, Long Island, Schuyler, Rensselaer, Genesee 

Volunteers:  Cheri Stevens & Leigh-Ann MacEwen – First Pioneer Farm Credit

Judi Whittaker, Nancy Weber, Terry Hughes, Stacey Brown, Anne Fuller, and Skip Jensen.

Classic Committee:  Norbert Amberg (Chair), Ken Dougherty, Joe Gergela, Rob Carpenter,  Mark James, Skip Jensen, Rich Jerome, Lloyd Kinnear, Ken Miller, Fred Perrin, Nancy Weber, Judi Whittaker, Lindsay Wickham, Fred Wickham.                                   

 

Mini Kiosk Now Available!

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New York Farm Bureau
Foundation for
Agricultural Education, Inc.
159 Wolf Road, P.O. Box 5330
Albany, NY 12205-5330
Phone: 518-436-8495