The Morton Golf Foundation is a 501c3 organization that raises funds for golf programs in the Sacramento community.
Morton Golf Foundation – Annual Report 2022
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90 Years Young, The Haggin Oaks Story Premiered this week at The Crest Theater in Sacramento. On Tuesday, December 13th at the historic Crest Theater in downtown Sacramento, nearly 700 golf staff, volunteers, city dignitaries, local media, customers, sales reps, vendors, and close friends and family celebrated the world premiere of this documentary to celebrate a very special golf course and its story. Everyone that came to the Crest Theater on Tuesday evening, December 13th was eagerly anticipating the premiere of 90 … read more
On November 30th, LPGA Amateur Golf Association– Sacramento Chapter donated $2,408.00 to Morton Golf Foundation to be given back to girls’ golf. This donation will be used for girls between the ages of 12 – 18 when they receive a Junior Girls Golf Development Grant. These funds are used for individual junior golfers to achieve growing their golf game, helping with cost of lessons and equipment. Thanks to everyone associated with LPGA Amateur Golf Association – Sacramento Chapter for believing … read more
“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