The annual Del Mar Nation Membership Golf Match and Dinner-Gala, which final yr raised greater than $1.6 million for the SOF (Particular Operations Forces) Help Basis, is returning to the famed Del Mar Nation Membership on Saturday, Oct. 1.
That includes a star-studded attendee record highlighted by Grammy and Academy of Nation Music Award-winning singer and songwriter Darius Rucker, the occasion will embrace an 18-hole scramble golf match and a dinner-gala headlined by keynote speaker Michéle Flournoy, featured speaker Michael W. MacKay and particular visitor Retired Navy SEAL Bob Harward.
The dinner-gala will characteristic a dwell and silent public sale full of a number of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. They embrace golf with Tremendous Bowl Champion and former “Good Morning America” host Michael Strahan at Grove XXIII, Michael Jordan’s non-public golf membership in Jupiter, Florida; a VIP weekend in Arizona that features VIP and suite tickets to the Waste Administration Open in Phoenix, probably the most well-liked stops on the PGA Tour, and two tickets to Tremendous Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium in Glendale; a Darius Rucker weekend getaway to Las Vegas that features a two-bedroom suite on the MGM Grand, a spherical of golf with Rucker on the acclaimed Shadow Creek Golf Membership adopted by a personal dinner; a five-night keep in a personal three-bedroom villa on the Chileno Bay Resort in Cabo San Lucas; a personal dinner for twenty-four hosted by acclaimed Chef Jeffrey Strauss, and a pair of VIP tickets for this yr’s Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame Induction Ceremony on the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Company can have the chance to bid on all these experiences and extra.
Keynote speaker Michèle Flournoy is the previous United States Underneath Secretary of Protection. She was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Protection within the formulation of nationwide safety and protection coverage, and oversight of army plans and operations. She additionally had a seat in Nationwide Safety Council deliberations. Flournoy can be joined on the dais by MacKay, a retired U.S. Marine Corps, Important Expertise Operator (Marine Raider) who’s at the moment serving because the Nationwide Safety Advisor to the Rating Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Protection. MacKay additionally served because the Chief of Employees for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Protection for Particular Operations and Combating Terrorism, and because the Appropriations Liaison to the Assistant Secretary of Protection for Particular Operations and Low Depth Battle within the Division of Protection.
And particular visitor Bob Harward is a Retired Navy SEAL and Vice Admiral, who’s a nationwide safety knowledgeable now working within the non-public sector. Harward served on the Nationwide Safety Council for the Bush administration and commissioned the Nationwide Counter Terrorism Heart.
A 34-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, Harward accrued intensive fight expertise as a Navy SEAL in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Yemen and Bosnia.
“The golf match and dinner-gala is all the time such a particular occasion right here on the Del Mar Nation Membership, and it’s an amazing privilege to honor and welcome everybody to lift crucial funds to help the boys, ladies and their households, who’ve sacrificed a lot over the past 20 years preventing the warfare in opposition to terrorism and international locations which have threatened and proceed to threaten American sovereignty,” mentioned SOF Help Chair Dominique Plewes.
Registration for the golf match on Oct. 1 is from 9-10 a.m. with opening ceremonies set to begin at 10:30 a.m., and the golf match at 10:45 a.m. Following the golf match, company will reconvene for a cocktail reception and silent public sale at 5 p.m. with the dinner-gala and dwell public sale set to get underway at 7 p.m.
All funds raised go to supporting the SOF Help Basis, whose mission is to assist guarantee American particular operations forces and their households obtain the help they should successfully perform their operations, preserve their households intact, and lead wholesome and productive lives after they’ve left this nation’s service.
SOF Help strives to provide these wants visibility, promote a greater public understanding of SOF’s position, and to forcefully help and advocate for SOF personnel and their households.
Among the many initiatives funded by SOF Help are psychological well being companies, together with particular person psychotherapy, household remedy, substance abuse and dependence remedy, and, the place acceptable, choices for residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
Its Transition with Which means Program paves the best way for people to proceed to serve oppressed folks all through the world. And aided by SOF Help, Navy SEAL households have been in a position to take part in wellness and resiliency applications.
The Del Mar Nation Membership Golf Match and Dinner-Gala is co-hosted by Madeleine Pickens and Dominique Plewes, house owners of the Del Mar Nation Membership.
For extra details about the golf match and dinner-gala, or to turn out to be an occasion sponsor, go to sofdinner.com, or contact the visitor relations crew at sofeventdelmar@gmail.com or (833) 877-3257.
