The Alabama Grocers Association held its 23rd Annual Spring Golf Outing earlier this month at Inverness Country Club in Birmingham. The tournament included two flights and raised a spring record for the Alabama Grocers Education Foundation (AGEF), which funds scholarships to employees and children of employees of Alabama Grocers Association companies. To date, AGEF has awarded more than $950,000 because of the support of Alabama Grocers Association members at golf tournaments.
The winners of this year’s golf tournament were:
• Morning first place team: Bill Keller, Orchid Paper; Jim Ward, D&T Sales; Steve Barnette, Mario Camacho; and Taylor Cox, Flowers Baking Co.
• Morning second place team: Hugh Hogue, Craig Dellinger and Steve Fulmer, Acosta Sales & Marketing; and Bill Borrow, Mitchell Grocery.
• Morning third place team: Robert McGuffie, D&T Sales; Chris Ragusa, Whitfield Foods; and Delma Craft, Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Co.
• Morning closest to the pin: Brian Castillio, Publix Super Markets.
• Morning longest drive: Jared Mahan, Hussmann.
• Afternoon first place team: Jeff Brown and Kenny Harbin, Country Delite Farms; and Delma Craft, Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Co.
• Afternoon second place team: Ben Peake, Peake & Associates; Roark Hoffman, Great Lakes Cheese; and Greg Waldrop and Randy Wade, Gateway Foods.
• Afternoon third place team: Paul Burnett, Gabe Celment and Haig Wright, Byars-Wright Insurance; and Robert Burnett, 4th Ave. Supermarkets.
• Afternoon closest to the pin: Dale Ciaccio, Wells Enterprises.
• Afternoon longest drive: Tyler Heath, Tampico.
The even’t 2015 presenting sponsor was United Johnson Brothers/Chateau St. Michelle/E&J Gallo Winery. Additional sponsors of the spring tourney included 5-hour Energy, Advantage Sales & Marketing, America’s First Federal Credit Union, Associated Grocers of the South, Associated Wholesale Grocers Gulf Division, Associated Wholesale Grocers Nashville Division, Barber’s Dairy, Bevco Beverages, Bimbo Bakeries, Birmingham Coca-Cola, Buffalo Rock/Pepsi, Bunzl Distribution/Pactiv, Byars-Wright, C Lane Co., Colorado Boxed Beef, Country Delite Farms, Daisy Brands, Dent, Baker & Co., Dutch Farms, Edlinco, Flowers Baking Co., Freeman Food Management, Frito-Lay, Golden Flake Snack Foods, Hussmann, Kraft Foods, Merrill Lynch, Mitchell Grocery Corp., Mrs. Stratton’s Salads, MSI Inventory, Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Co., R.L. Zeigler, Red Diamond, Snyder’s-Lance, Super Foods Supermarkets, Tyson/Hillshire Farms, Wells Enterprises, Winn-Dixie and WP Rawl.
The next AGEF fundraiser will take place at Alabama Grocers Association convention, to be held July 27-29 at Grand Hotel Marriott Resort in Point Clear, Alabama.
Find photos from the spring golf tourney here.
