Former Michigan residents, Casey and Rachel Lubahn, donated their $10,000 winnings from a recent Golf Channel competition to Sparrow Hospital.
The Oct. 21 episode of the Golf Channel's “Big Break X: Michigan” featured the Children's Miracle Network Challenge, which required participants to hole out from a 30-yard distance over a 16-foot high wall. The Lubahns won the competition because it took them the least number of strokes to get the ball in the hole.
“We’re grateful to Golf Channel, and also to Casey and Rachel Lubahn, for their outstanding golf skills that enabled them to win the Children’s Miracle Network Challenge for Sparrow,” says the president of the Sparrow Foundation, Mike Wall. “This prize will help us to continue to provide the very best medical care to the tens of thousands of children each year who are treated at Sparrow Regional Children’s Center and who benefit from the generosity of those who support the Children’s Miracle Network.”
The Sparrow Foundation has raised $5.3 million during the last five years for the program.
“We’re probably the premier children’s department as a result of that,” Wall says.
The Lubahns played golf at Michigan State University (MSU), and Casey was an assistant golf coach for the Spartan before recently taking the head-coaching job at Miami University (Ohio). They are also the only married couple on the reality series.
The 11-episode series airs at 10 p.m. every Tuesdays. The finale is scheduled for Dec. 16. The winning pair will earn an exemption for the male to play in the 2009 Children’s Miracle Network Classic at the Walt Disney World Resort on the PGA TOUR while the female will compete in the 2009 Bell Micro LPGA Classic on the LPGA Tour.
Source: Rose Tantraphol, Sparrow Hospital
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
Enjoy this story?
Sign up for free solutions-based reporting in your inbox each week.