FROM THE PRATTVILLE YMCA
Prattville, AL (February 28, 2023) – The 26th annual Kevin Turner Golf Tournament will continue in the merry month of May. This year’s tournament will be played on Monday, May15th at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Capitol Hill.
Kevin Turner, a Prattville native who starred at Alabama and then for eight years in the NFL, assisted in the starting of the tournament and loaned his name to the event in1998. Kevin participated in sports at the YMCA in his childhood. Kevin was part of the tournament every year until 2013 when his battle with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE made his attendance very difficult. He made a brief appearance at the 2015 tournament with our first guest host, Gary Hollingsworth, a former Alabama quarterback and teammate of Turner. CTE eventually led to his untimely passing in March, 2016.
After Turner’s death, the Turner family was honored as the second guest host. Former Tide tailback Siran Stacy was the guest host in 2017, Antonio Langham and Andrew Zow served as co-hosts in 2018, Sherman Williams served as host in 2019, Martin Houston in 2020, Roger Shultz in 2021, and Preston Gothard in 2022. In 2022 over 290 people participated in the tournament making it one of the largest in the River Region.
The proceeds from the tournament help fund the Coach A Child Scholarship Fund Campaign which provides financial aid to make YMCA services available to all persons regardless of their inability to pay. The golf tournament is in its eighth year at RTJ Capitol Hill after spending the first 18 years at the Prattville Country Club.
Attached is a tournament registration form. We would love to have you participate in this tournament by sponsoring a hole, setting up on a hole to promote your business, or putting in a team and playing. Individuals or businesses wishing to participate in the tournament can contact Keith Cantrell at (334) 358-9622 or e-mail him at kcantrell@prattvilleymca.org
