MARATHON CLASSIC INSIDERS

MARATHON
CLASSIC
INSIDERS
JANUARY 2014
Marathon Classic Passes $8
million in Grants to Children’s
Charities
On Friday, December 20, 2013 The Marathon Classic distributed $ 378,000 to 23 charities that
work to serve children in Northwestern Ohio and Southeastern Michigan. With the 2013
tournament, the financial impact of the tournament passed $8.1 million dollars to over 100 charities
that touch the lives of thousands of children in our community.
The Charity Check Luncheon celebrated the tournament sponsors, the tournament staff, and the
volunteers, who each contributed through their roles to raising these funds for the charities. It was
also a celebration of the charities and their volunteers as they work tirelessly to improve the lives of
children in our community. Representatives from each of the charities expressed gratitude for the
financial support they received from the tournament and explained how the monies will be used to
support their efforts serving children throughout our region.
Volunteer Registration for
the 2014 Marathon Classic is
now Open
Please Register
Early and Invite
Your Friends to Join
the Marathon
Classic Volunteer
2014 Volunteer
Uniform
Community
The Race is On! LPGA Launches
Inaugural Race to the CME Globe
$1 Million First-Place Prize Up for Grabs in New SeasonLong Points Race Race to have Charity Tie-In with
“Wounded Warrior Project® Weekends”
The inaugural Race to the CME Globe will kick off the week of
January 20 at the season-opening Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA
Classic. Players will accumulate points at each official LPGA
event from the Bahamas through the Lorena Ochoa
Invitational Presented by Banamex.
The Race to the CME Globe will then come to an exciting
conclusion on Sunday at the newly renamed CME Group Tour
Championship.
Two big purses and two big winner’s payouts will be on the
line during the final day of the CME Group Tour
Championship. The winner of the CME Group Tour
Championship will take home a $500,000 first-place prize,
while the player who has accumulated the most points in the
season-long points competition will be announced as the
Race to the CME Globe champion with a $1 million unofficial
money payout – the largest in all of women’s golf.
For more information, go to LPGA.com
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Volunteer registration for the
Marathon Classic presented by
Owens Corning and O-I is now
open. Early registration will
once again include incentives
for those registering by the
April 11th Early Bird Deadline.
The registration fee this year is
$55. All volunteers who
register by the April 11th Early
Bird deadline will receive a
Grounds Badge valued at $50.
This offer does not apply to
children and volunteers who
pay the $12 registration fee. In
addition to the free Grounds
Badge those who register by
April 11th will also be entered
into a drawing for prizes
including rounds of golf to local
courses, a Marathon gas card
and a Callaway Lob Wedge.
In return for the $55
registration fee, volunteers will
receive an official embroidered
Nike golf shirt, ball cap,
clubhouse badge for the week,
parking pass, volunteer tent
privileges and volunteer party
ticket.
You can register for the 2014
Marathon Classic presented by
Owens Corning and O-I at
www.marathonclassic.com.
Inside the
Ropes:
About the
LPGA and the
Players
Stacy Lewis
...Started playing golf at the age of 8...Credits her parents ‘for
encouraging me to play even after having back surgery’ as the
individuals most influencing her career... From the age of 11,
Lewis wore a back brace 18 hours per day for 7-1/2 years to
correct curvature in her spine from scoliosis, removing it only to
play golf…Had back surgery during her senior year of high school
and redshirted for one season before joining the University of
Arkansas women’s golf team…Traveled to Africa in 2011 with
Besty King's Golf Fore Africa...Hobbies include working out,
watching any sports especially SEC football, traveling and having
spare time to herself...Qualified for the Tour on her first
attempt…Has her own Web site, www.stacysback.com.
2012 in a Nutshell - 26 events, 25 cuts made, $1,872,409 (3) Earned Rolex Player of the Year honors following a four-win
season - Tallied 15 additional top-10 finishes, including three
runner-ups - Led the Tour in birdies, eagles and rounds in the 60s
Career
In 2011, became a Rolex First-Time Winner at the Kraft Nabisco
Championship where she defeated Rolex Rankings No. 1 Yani
Tseng by three shots for her first major championship victory and
crossed the $1 million mark in career earnings; recorded 10 other
top-10 finishes including: runner-up at the Evian Masters; tied for
second at the CN Canadian Women's Open; fifth at the Avnet
LPGA Classic; tied for fifth at the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia;
tied for sixth at the Wegmans LPGA Championship, Navistar
LPGA Classic and Mizuno Classic; tied for eighth at the Safeway
Classic Presented by Coca-Cola and the Walmart NW Arkansas
Championship, where she crossed the $2 million mark in career
earnings; tied for ninth at the HSBC Women's Champions;
competed on her first U.S. Solheim Cup Team with a 1-3-0
record.
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ROLEX WORLD RANK:
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Height: 5'5"
Rookie Year: 2009
Career Earnings:
$5,988,072.50
Education: University of
Arkansas (2008, Finance and
Accounting)
Symetra Tour Alumnae
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In 2010, recorded a seasonbest runner-up finish at the
Tres Marias Championship;
finished third at the Mizuno
Classic; tied for seventh at
the Lorena Ochoa
Invitational Presented by
Banamex and Corona Light;
tied for ninth at the P&G NW
Arkansas Championship
Presented by Walmart.
In 2009, best finish was a tie
for fourth at the Wegmans
LPGA, where she carded a
season-low 67 during the
second round; also carded
67s in the final round of the
LPGA Corning Classic, and
in the second round of both
the Evian Masters and
P&G Beauty NW Arkansas
Championship Presented by
John Q. Hammons; tied for
ninth at the McDonald's
LPGA Championship
Presented by Coca-Cola.
STACY WAS BORN IN NORTHWEST
OHIO AND ALWAYS HAS AN
ENTHUSIASTIC LOCAL GALLERY AT
THE MARATHON CLASSIC
PRESENTED BY OWENS CORNING &
O-I
In 2008, turned professional
in June; competed in seven
events on Tour with two top10 finishes, including a tie for
third at the U.S. Women’s
Open and a tie for sixth at
the Kapalua LPGA Classic;
also competed in two events
on the Symetra Tour - Road
to the LPGA with two topthree finishes; earned
medalist honors at the LPGA
Final Qualifying Tournament
to earn Priority List Category
11 for the 2009 LPGA
season.
In 2007, as an amateur,
carded a career-low 65 to
take the first-round lead at
the LPGA NW Arkansas
Championship Presented by
John Q. Hammons before
the tournament was rain-
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shortened and cancelled
following 18 holes of play;
also tied for fifth at the Kraft
Nabisco Championship to
earn low-amateur honors.
Amateur As a member of the
University of Arkansas
women’s golf team, Lewis
won 12 collegiate events and
was a four-time AllAmerican. She was the 2005
Southeastern Conference
(SEC) Freshman of the
Year, the 2007 NCAA
Division I National Champion
and the 2008 SEC
Championship Individual
Medalist and Player of the
Year. Away from collegiate
competition, she won the
2006 Harder Hall Invitational,
the 2006 Western Amateur
and was a semi-finalist at the
2006 U.S. Women’s
Amateur. She was the 2007
Southern Amateur
Champion and the 2007
Dinah Shore Trophy Award
recipient. Lewis was also a
member of the victorious
U.S. Team at the 2007 at
Copa de las Americas and
on the victorious 2008 U.S.
Curtis Cup team, becoming
the first player to go 5-0 in
Curtis Cup history. Lewis is a
two-time Golfweek and Golf
Digest Women’s Amateur
Player of the Year (2006-07)
and was the top ranked
amateur in the
Golfweek/Titleist Women’s
Amateur Rankings in 2008.
BIO DATA AND PHOTOS COURTESY
OF THE LPGA OFFICAL WEBSITE
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2013 CHARITIES & GRANTS
ADAMHS – Above the Influence
Bittersweet Farms
Blanchard Valley Health System
Challenged Champions Equestrian
Center
Children’s Mentoring Connection
$10,000
$25,000
$15,000
Clothe-A-Child
Council on Domestic Violence
$2,500
$8,820
$12,000
Dental Center of Northwest Ohio
Diabetes Youth Services
First Step
Hancock Co. Center for Safe & Healthy
Children
Imagination Station
$15,000
$6,300
$25,000
$10,500
$25,000
$25,000
Jamie Farr Scholarship Fund
Putnam County Board of DD
$27,000
$2,000
Ronald McDonald House
Serenity Farm Equestrian Center
Special Olympics
$25,000
$25,000
$5,000
Sylvania Area Family Services
Tiffin Seneca Public Library
$25,000
$4,200
Tiffin Seneca Teen Center
Together We Can Make a
Difference
Toledo Speech & Hearing Center
Toledo Seagate Foodbank
TOTAL
$13,680
$25,000
$25,000
$21,000
$378,000
Hall of Fame
Sponsors
3M
Anheuser-Busch
The Blade
Brooks Insurance Agency
Buckeye Cablesystem/
Buckeye Telesystem
Fathead
Fifth Third Bank
Health Care REIT
Heidtman Steel
Hollywood Casino Toledo
Hylant
The Image Group
KeyBank
The Kroger Co.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation
McDonalds Restaurants
O-I
Owens Corning
Pepsi Beverages Company
ProMedica
Sparkling Ice
WTVG13ABC
2014 Charities
Ronald McDonald House
Jamie Farr Scholarship Fund
Anne Grady Services
The Arts Partnership of Hancock County
CASA Volunteer Association (Monroe)
CASA Volunteer Association (Toledo
Campfire Northwest Ohio
Children’s Hunger Alliance
Christian Clearing House
Down Syndrome Association of Greater Toledo
Findlay Family YMCA
First Tee of Lake Erie
Friends of the Findlay-Hancock Co. Library
Gliding Stars of Findlay
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Junior Achievement
Mobile Meals of Toledo
Putnam County Educational Service Center
Putnam County YMCA
Ryan’s Place
Specialized Alternatives for Families & Youth
Special Kids Therapy, Inc.
United Way of Hancock County