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Wiffle Ball Classic
The McGladrey Classic

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Ronald McDonald House of Fort Worth
Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial

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Youth Day
Transitions Championship

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Operation Shower
Northern Trust Open

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Style Your Sole
AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am

On Tuesday evening in Pebble Beach, the PGA TOUR Wives Association partnered with TOMS Shoes and the tournament to host a Style Your Sole event.  PGA TOUR professionals and celebrities alike spent the evening decorating a pair of TOMS Shoes that were later put up on the auction block to raise money for the PGA TOUR Wives Association’s designated children’s charities and the First Tee of Monterey.

Check out shoes from celebrites like Darius Rucker and Matt Cain, along with PGA TOUR professionals Rickie Fowler, Dustin Johnson, Jim Furyk and many more by clicking here to read more.

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Blessings in a Backpack
Waste Management Phoenix Open

During the Waste Management Phoenix Open, the PGA TOUR Wives Association returned to Nevitt Elementary School for the third year of our Blessings initiative there.  Members rolled up their sleeves and unpacked/unboxed the food and set up the stations, ready for the packing process.  The children came through the lines, their backpacks opened and carried in front and the food placed inside. During this time, we chatted with the children as they walked through the line with smiling faces, shy glances and thankful hearts.

When the food was distributed, we broke into groups and met with the children in their classes. A secondary activity we had planned with the children was to write letters to deployed Navy SEALS.  The teachers told us it was a great project as the children researched what the SEALS did and then began writing their letters.  Some children read their letters to us while others needed assistance to complete them.  The completed letters will be sent via the PGA TOUR’s military outreach to let those who are serving know that children care about them and admire what they are doing.

To read more about our visit to Nevitt Elementary School, please click here.

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Blessings in a Backpack
Farmers Insurance Open

At the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego the PGA TOUR Wives had the pleasure to mix, mingle and pack backpacks full of food for the local school that Farmers sponsors.  It was a year ago this week that the PTWA joined Farmers to kick off the start of the their sponsorship to the Doris Miller School in San Diego.  Farmers joined Blessings in a Backpack to start the relationship and the end result is that kids are receiving backpacks with weekend food on each Friday.  An interesting note about Doris Miller School is that most of the parents are military and so many of them are on deployments as we speak.  It seems pretty special that in this particular school Farmers Insurance is helping children of our men and women that serve our country!

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Blessings in a Backpack
Sony Open in Hawaii

The PGA TOUR Wives Association returned to Ke Kula ‘o Samuel M. Kamakau school to celebrate our third year of the Blessings in a Backpack program in Hawaii.  This year, we were joined by Leilani Kupahu-Marino, who, through her vast knowledge of Hawaiian history, educated us on the many customs we would be experiencing at the school.  Upon our arrival, she chanted the beautiful traditional Hawaiian greeting which asks for permission to enter the “home”. The children thenused the traditional Hawaiian responsive greeting and welcomed us back to the school.

In addition to packing the backpacks, we also spent the day playing traditional Hawaiian games with the children ‘ulu maika...