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 checklist highlighted by Grammy and Academy of Nation Music Award-winning singer and songwriter Darius Rucker, the occasion will embody an 18-hole scramble golf event 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 function a stay and silent public sale stuffed with a number of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. They embody golf with Tremendous Bowl Champion and former “Good Morning America” host Michael Strahan at Grove XXIII, Michael Jordan’s personal 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 fashionable 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 non-public dinner; a five-night keep in a non-public three-bedroom villa on the Chileno Bay Resort in Cabo San Lucas; a non-public 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. Friends can have the chance to bid on all these experiences and extra.
Keynote speaker Michèle Flournoy is the previous United States Beneath 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, Vital Expertise Operator (Marine Raider) who’s presently serving because the Nationwide Safety Advisor to the Rating Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Protection. MacKay additionally served because the Chief of Workers 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 skilled now working within the personal 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 in depth fight expertise as a Navy SEAL in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Yemen and Bosnia.
“The golf event 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 boost crucial funds to help the lads, girls and their households, who’ve sacrificed a lot over the past twenty years combating the conflict in opposition to terrorism and international locations which have threatened and proceed to threaten American sovereignty,” stated SOF Help Chair Dominique Plewes.
Registration for the golf event on Oct. 1 is from 9-10 a.m. with opening ceremonies set to start out at 10:30 a.m., and the golf event at 10:45 a.m. Following the golf event, company will reconvene for a cocktail reception and silent public sale at 5 p.m. with the dinner-gala and stay 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 offer these wants visibility, promote a greater public understanding of SOF’s function, and to forcefully help and advocate for SOF personnel and their households.
Among the many initiatives funded by SOF Help are psychological well being providers, together with particular person psychotherapy, household remedy, substance abuse and dependence therapy, and, the place applicable, choices for residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
Its Transition with Which means Program paves the way in which 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 packages.
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 event and dinner-gala, or to turn into an occasion sponsor, go to sofdinner.com, or contact the visitor relations group at sofeventdelmar@gmail.com or (833) 877-3257.
