Golfing for Wounded Heroes to take place Aug. 8
<span>Chester Country Club will play host to a tournament with a special cause on Aug. 8.</span>
<span>Golfing for Wounded Heroes is a golf tournament designed to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project, a Veterans charity organization with the purpose of raising awareness and enlisting the public's aid for the needs of injured service members, according to its website.</span>
<span>"I had a buddy, Mike Delancey, who I served in the Marines with," said tournament co-chairman Todd Cowan. "When we were in Iraq together in 2006, he was shot by a sniper and was paralyzed from the waist down.</span>
<span>"The Wounded Warrior Project really helped him and I just figured that I would host this tournament and try and raise money for the Wounded Warriors and help everybody out who have served this great nation."</span>
<span>The tournament is a four-person scramble with an entry fee of $240 per team. The field is limited to 24 teams with a cart fee of $40 per team and a trail fee of $10 per cart.</span>
<span>"We're just trying to raise a lot of money," Cowan said. "We're talking donations to sponsor holes and if someone wants to donate a hole in honor of a fallen soldier, they can.</span>
<span>"Even if it is for someone who has been hurt. I'm sponsoring a hole for all our fallen Marines."</span>
<span>There will be cash prizes and dinner will be included. Cowan said organizers are hoping to have a silent auction with an autographed Tom Brady jersey and a football signed by all the New England Patriots as marquee items.</span>
<span>"Joining the Marines and going to Afghanistan and Iraq twice, you see a lot of bad things going on and it changes your outlook on life," Cowan said of his service. "Seeing how many that affects.</span>
<span>"When you come home and see the war's screwed up a lot of people's' lives, you try and help them out as much as you can. It's the least we can do."</span>
<span>The tournament will begin with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. For more information, or to register, contact Cowan at 618-615-3264 or co-chairman Curt Owen at 618-830-2915.</span>