David Fanning was 32 years old when he lost his battle with CF in 2002. One of David's fundraising achievements was playing 65 holes of golf, so it was a natural to hold a golf tournament in his honor. The tournament is held every year on the Woodlands course at Hawk's Prairie in Lacey.
This year's tourney was the day before the Seattle Great Strides walk, so it was a very full weekend. My usual golfing partners Tom and Russ joined me this year after missing 2007. We seemed to forget that playing in a golf tournament requires you to actually play decent golf. Our threesome (there were no crazed loners stupid enough to join us) shot a less than stellar 79 for the day, putting us a solid 3rd - from the bottom.
Porter's Place provided a barbecue lunch to help soothe our wounded egos and empty stomachs. The weather was absolutely perfect, I think this was the first tourney where we've had to use sunscreen.
Checking in at 7:30am and gettin' a donut.
Tom at the putting contest.
Russ being horribly optimistic. Of course, we hadn't started yet.
Callie, Carmen and Stephanie from the CF Foundation office.
Russ and Tom staring in disbelief at yet another shot gone astray. We did that a lot.
Stephanie manning the hole-in-one green. An ace wins you a new car but nobody cashed in this year.
Callie and Carmen with David's son Colin.
We didn't suck all the time, here's Tom draining a putt,
