Legendary athletes hit the links at the Couer d’Alene Resort golf course to support the cause.<\/p>\n
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho \u2014 The annual CDA Showcase golf tournament took place over the weekend at the Coeur d’Alene Resort Golf Course to raise money for the Commmunity Cancer Fund.<\/p>\n
Over two dozen celebrities played in the two day Pro-Am tournament. Five-time NBA champion Ron Harper took home the jacket as the winner for both rounds. NHL veteran Brenden Morrow was the gross points winner on Friday.<\/p>\n
All of the celebrities who made their way to North Idaho were excited to play some golf with the corporate sponsors, but top of mind was fundraising for a good cause.<\/p>\n
“You come here for the cause. The impact that this event has on the Inland Northwest and any cancer patient, whether a child or adult, trying to make their quality of care a little bit easier as they go through it, the impact has just been incredible,” two-time Super Bowl champion, Super Bowl XXVII MVP and Spokane native Mark Rypien said.<\/p>\n
For Rypien, the Community Cancer Fund cause is personal.<\/p>\n
“I lost my son Andrew in 1998 to a brain tumor, so that fuels my drive to come out here and support such a wonderful, wonderful cause,” Rypien said.<\/p>\n
Many of the celebrities including Rypien, have been long time supporters of the event and continue to be impressed with the work the Community Cancer Fund does.<\/p>\n
“Being able to impact the community is the biggest thing for me. The things that they are doing in the community and giving back, the people that show up to this event, it’s absolutely amazing and I am very fortunate to be here and support what they are doing. The cause is absolutely amazing and any time you can impact someone’s life, it just brings me so much joy, so I am very grateful to be here and be a part of it,” former Seahawks wide receiver and Super Bowl XLVIII champion Sidney Rice said.<\/p>\n
“I think I could be living anywhere in the world and I would make time for this event. It means a lot. They do such an extraordinary job of putting this event on and all of the people who come are so supportive and all of the money goes to such a good cause of fighting cancer and helping our community. They go into the hospitals, including the hospital I was born at and have done so much there just trying to help everybody, so I always want to be a part of it,” two-time Stanley Cup champion and Spokane native Tyler Johnson said.<\/p>\n
“When you have an opportunity, you step up. This is a great opportunity for a lot of us celebrities to step up and raise some money to help try and find a cure and end cancer,” three-time NBA champion Scott Williams said.<\/p>\n
The paddle raise event alone raised over $1.7 million and counting.<\/p>\n
“These guys have been doing this for 10 plus years now and making a great impact on the community, it’s just great to be a part of,” Rice said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary athletes hit the links at the Couer d’Alene Resort golf course to support the cause. COEUR D’ALENE,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-47352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47352","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=47352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}