The Dodge City Country Club was decked out in pink on Sunday for the second annual Cummings Carousel Pink Passion Golf Tournament.
The tournament's first year raised $4,000 for local charities that help cancer patients.
Tournament organizer Shari Thomas said she expected this year’s tournament to bring in around the same amount.
“I think things have gone really well,” Thomas said. “We have 18 teams, and the ladies are all dressed in pink, and their carts are all decorated and they all seem to be having a lot of fun.”
Participants embarked on the course in groups of four, playing the best ball. Four teams shot a 69 on the par-72 course to tie for first place.
The winning teams were made up of Wendy Vollersten, Jami Werner, Katrina Harris, Jenna Shook, Stephanie Kippes, Deanna Gillen, Jacki Luft, Serena Watkins, Jennie Watkins, Barbara Henry, Liz Limm, Amy Green, Deanna Martin, Julie Vines, Donna Gersner and Robin Valenzuela.
Many of the golfers who were swinging their clubs to raise money have been affected by cancer.
Becky Bredfeldt lost her sister to breast cancer and Marie Coffin’s father died of cancer as well.
“(I hope) my presence here today will help fund research that will help us find a cure,” Bredfeldt said.
Judy Counce was one who fared much better with breast cancer.
Counce was out on the course Sunday after winning her own fight with cancer.
“I am very, thankful,” Counce said. “And I am thankful for all the attention that is drawn to the fact that women need to have their mammograms on a regular basis and to do self breast checks, because it was a self-check that provided the information (for me). I felt a lump and went in immediately.”
Luckily for Counce, she caught it in the early stages.
Counce said before she was diagnosed in 1998, she only participated in one cancer event. Since then, she has been much more active.
“You have a tendency to think it is never going to happen to you,” Counce said. “I have always been healthy and have been from a family of good health. It can happen to anybody.”
CUMMINGS CAROUSEL PINK PASSION
GOLF TOURNAMENT
Four-person scramble
Sunday
At Dodge City Country Club
1. Wendy Vollersten, Jami Werner, Katrina Harris, Jenna Shook, 69; 1. Stephanie Kippes, Deanna Gillen, Jacki Luft, Serena Watkins, 69; 1. Jennie Watkins, Barbara Henry, Liz Limm, Amy Green, 69; 1. Deanna Martin, Julie Vines, Donna Gersner, Robin Valenzaela, 69; 5. Maxine Pendergast, Deb Wall, Maria Spohr, Shirley Summers, 70; 6. Julie Speck, Lana Crane, Betty Lynch, Cathy Allpin, 71; 6. Ansel Barngrover, Jericka Falcon, Janae Gibson, Patty Young, 71; 8. Judy Bleumer, Theresa Lovitt, Kathy Debes, Kim Angel, 72; 8. AliceGonzales, Tonya Matheny, Barb Soza, Alisha Sanchez, 72; 10. Connie Milford, Patty Basham, Nancy Laudick, Bev Winans.
