The Morton Golf Foundation is a 501c3 organization that raises funds for golf programs in the Sacramento community.
Morton Golf Foundation – Annual Report 2021
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“Golf Fore Health” ends its season in style! On Wednesday, October 22, we had our 2nd Annual “Hot Dog Scramble” for the year as we ended with “Until we meet again next year”. Just wanted to give a BIG shout out to say THANK YOU for a GREAT year of “Golf Fore Health”. We could not do this program without Coach Ken Hurdle and all of our volunteers! Everyone will continue to hear from us but please mark your 2023 calendar … read more
The Golf & Guitars Music Festival at Haggin Oaks Surpasses The 1.5 Million Dollars Fundraising Mark Morton Golf Foundation Uses Funds To Support Programming For Youth, Veterans & Those With Disabilities The Golf and Guitars Music Festival is a celebrity pro-am golf tournament and country concert featuring nationally recognized & major label country music artists that raises money for key children’s charities in Haggin Oaks Golf Complex in Sacramento, CA. Each golfer in the tournament plays with a celebrity and … read more
Angels for Hearts, one of our Morton Golf Foundation grant recipients, put together this fun video slideshow featuring songwriter/artist, and longtime Golf & Guitars alumni Chris Roberts. The song was written by Chris and Ken Morton, Jr as a gift to the charity. Angels for Hearts’ mission is to bring normalcy to pediatric heart patients ages newborn to 18, both in and out of the hospital. They remind heart kids that first and foremost they are kids before being heart … read more
The Sacramento Golf Council First Annual Player of the Year Awards were held on October 3, 2022. The following are the Sacramento Player of the Year recipients: *Men’s Player of the Year, Matthew Sutherland *Women’s Player of the Year, Sienna Lyford *Senior Men’s Player of the Year, Mark Morgan*Super-Senior Men’s Player of the Year, Jeff Burda Each recipient was chosen from a Committee within the Sacramento Golf Council by their point system by this year’s accomplishments. They were all recognized in front … read more
The Villara Capital Cup Fundraiser was held on October 7, 8 & 9, 2022. For the 3rd year in a row Tom Morton, President of Morton Golf Foundation agreed to represent Morton Golf Foundation by playing & fundraising in the 8th Annual Villara Capital Cup fundraiser. This event had a total of 32 business leaders playing in a Ryder Cup format with Tom Morton being the Captain for the Blue Team, River City Ramblers & Shannon Deary-Bell Captain of the … read more
Theresa Shaw, Senior at Bear River High School had the opportunity this past September to be one of the lucky chosen by the First Tee to play on TV at the PURE Insurance Championship golf tournament at Pebble Beach. In a blind draw her Championship Golf Pro was Kevin Sutherland also from Sacramento. On Thursday, September 22nd, 2022, they were together playing a practice round and Theresa got her first hole-in-one on Hole # 17 of Pebble Beach. Hole # … read more
Are you, or someone that you know interested in rehabilitating using the game of golf? Golf Fore Health is the answer! This program consists of a spring and fall program that provides the participants the opportunity to improve their golfing skills while on their journey of recovery. These sessions consist of coaching sessions on Mondays and 9-hole play on Wednesdays. Each of these sessions concludes with a “Hot Dog Scramble” where the participants can have family, friends, or caretakers play … read more
The Special Olympics Golf Reginal was held at Haggin Oaks on September 9, 2022. We were thrilled to host all of the athletes and families that participated. Today was a very special day at Haggin Oaks. It’s been 3 years since the last Special Olympics Golf Regionals has held due to COVID-19. The Special Olympics Athletes started to arrive, the volunteers were in place & the BBQ grills were cooking burgers. 36 Athletes had the opportunity to play 9-holes of … read more
Nikki Chindavong is a junior golf development grant recipient for the past several years and it has been a joy to watch her development both on and off the course. Nikki recently sent a thank you letter to the Morton Golf Foundation and we wanted to share it with everyone here. We were touched by the great art and her kind words: Dear Morton Golf Foundation: Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for believing in me and supporting … read more
Morton Golf Foundation, First Tee- Greater Sacramento joined County Club Optimist Club for the Annual Robla School Giveaway. On Saturday, August 6th at 9:00 a.m. approximately 150 local school children from kindergarten through 6th Grade in the Robla School District joined in the fun for a back-to-school giveaway. What a wonderful way to get the students and families from the surrounding area of Robla School District off to a great start for the coming school year starting August 15th There … read more