2nd Annual Blue Marlin Realty Group Charity Golf Tournament

We will be hosting our second annual Charity Golf Tournament on Friday, November 14 at Regatta Bay Golf and Country Club!

Proceeds from the tournament will benefit The Taylor Haugen Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides grants, education and funding to athletic teams, schools and districts through its YESS (Youth Equipment for Sports Safety) Program. The Foundation also recognizes and supports outstanding scholar-athletes with scholarships and awards.  Started in 2011, Brian and Kathy Haugen created the foundation in memory of their late son, Taylor, who passed away from a football related injury in 2008. “It is a matter of honoring Taylor and kind of continuing his legacy and doing something that will have a lasting impression and make a difference and protect children and parents from having to go through what we’ve had to go through,” Kathy Haugen said.

The tournament will begin with registration at 9:30 a.m. and a shotgun start at 11 a.m.  Entrance fees are $125 per person and $400 to sign up a foursome. All tournament players will receive a free lunch courtesy of Lenny’s Sub Shop. Following the tournament there will be an after-party sponsored by Beaches, Resorts and Parks and Henderson Park Inn held at the Regatta Bay Clubhouse with food donated by Landshark’s Pizza, a silent auction and live entertainment.  The tournament and after party is open to the public. Following the after party, golfers and guests are invited to a private party at La Paz off Holiday Isle.

Sponsors to date include Beaches, Resorts & Park, Bracken Law, Brightway Insurance, Carter& Company, Chi-Mar Construction, Clear Harbor Wealth Management, CumulusRadio, Destin Magazine, Henderson Park Inn, La Paz, Landshark’s Pizza, and Lenny’s Sub Shop.

Last year's tournament raised $12,002.32 for the Mary Lynne Burnett Memorial Foundation, which provides scholarships to Okaloosa and/or Walton county high school students that have shown dedication to their education in spite of challenging circumstances such as the loss of a parent, major illness, etc. Blue Marlin Realty Group Realtor, Doug Burnett, created the foundation in honor of his late wife that passed away in 2008 from breast cancer.