{"id":124779,"date":"2025-09-01T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/124779\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:00:03","slug":"local-golfer-plays-126-holes-in-a-day-to-support-veterans-and-raise-funds-for-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/124779\/","title":{"rendered":"Local golfer plays 126 holes in a day to support veterans and raise funds for scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local golfer is turning a day on the course into a mission of service by playing 126 holes in one day to raise money for veterans and first responders.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Craig hosted his sixth annual golf marathon at WindStone Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>The marathon supports Folds of Honor, a national non-profit that provides scholarships to the families of fallen or disabled service members.<\/p>\n<p>Craig teed off just after 7:00 a.m., committing to play through sunset &#8212; all in the name of charity.<\/p>\n<p>What started as a 108-hole challenge turned into 126 holes after the club raised over $30,000.<\/p>\n<p>This year alone, Craig says the event will fund at least six scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans are also invited to join him on the course; seven of them played alongside him during the third round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had seven veterans out here, all members,&#8221; said Craig. &#8220;The highlight of that was, we actually had a hole-in-one today, had a hole-in-one on 13. So, that was a lot of fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Craig and the WindStone Golf Club membership have now raised over $125,000 over the past six years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local golfer is turning a day on the course into a mission of service by playing 126&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[7826,79807,427,79808,15634,75950,46344,99,3511,79809],"class_list":["post-124779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-charity","tag-folds-of-honor","tag-golf","tag-golf-marathon","tag-golfer","tag-hole-in-one","tag-scholarships","tag-sports","tag-veterans","tag-windstone-golf-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}