{"id":3277,"date":"2025-07-17T16:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3277\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:58:11","slug":"montrealers-spread-love-with-charity-golf-tournament-for-cystic-fibrosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3277\/","title":{"rendered":"Montrealers \u2018Spread Love\u2019 with charity golf tournament for cystic fibrosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking a swing at cystic fibrosis, the \u201cSpread Love\u201d charity golf tournament is back in Montreal for its fourth year.<\/p>\n

Started by Montrealers Marco Gentile and Marco Colasurdo, the event supports the fight against cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that affects lungs, the pancreas and other organs.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as Mother Nature cooperates, I think it\u2019s one of the best golf tournaments in Montreal,\u201d said Gentile.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s one event you can donate to this year, we hope it\u2019s this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cystic fibrosis is a cause that became very important to Gentile in 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen my daughter, Brooklyn, who today is five years old, was born and diagnosed with cystic fibrosis<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew then that we wanted to give back to the community in a way. And Marco (Colasurdo) being one of my best friends, always very passionate about golf, he\u2019s always wanted to host a golf tournament. We finally had a very important cause and so the tournament was born.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the past three years, the organizers of the Spread Love charity golf tournament donated over $100,000 to cystic fibrosis causes. This year, all net proceeds will be donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at the Montreal Children\u2019s Hospital, where Brooklyn is being cared for.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re super proud,\u201d Gentile said. \u201cIt\u2019s nothing to do with what we\u2019ve done. It\u2019s really all to do with the big hearts and big donations of everyone who participates, of all of our volunteers who help, of our sponsors. So we\u2019re delighted to be at the middle of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Golfers at a \u201cSpread Love\u201d charity golf tournament. (Submitted by: Marco Gentile)<\/p>\n

This year, the Mirella and Nino Saputo Foundation have pledged to double all personal donations.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s gonna shape up to be our biggest event yet,\u201d Gentile said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpead Love\u201d is happening Aug. 9 at the Glendale Golf Club. Gentile says it will be a day filled with golf, dinner, fun, excitement, and above all, love.<\/p>\n

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Golf carts seen here at a previous edition of the \u201cSpread Love\u201d golf tournament. (Submitted by: Marco Gentile)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just another step in the journey for Gentile, who\u2019s dealt with the wide range of emotions that come when a child is sick.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we first got the diagnosis, when Brooklyn was born, it was very tough on us,\u201d Gentile recounted. \u201cAnd I saw it on my wife\u2019s face as well. I mean, we had many nights of crying. And soon after, you kind of pick yourself up and you realize that children are so resilient. And we knew that this was just gonna be part of Brooklyn\u2019s Superman cape, and her armour is gonna be something that was gonna make her special. It was going to help her overcome any type of adversity that she was gonna go through in life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always hope. And events like this make sure that people rally around the idea of positivity and we\u2019re able to donate to causes where science can catch up and write a beautiful ending to our story.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The \u201cSpread Love\u201d poster. (Submitted by: Marco Gentile)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taking a swing at cystic fibrosis, the \u201cSpread Love\u201d charity golf tournament is back in Montreal for its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}