Fall Golf Tournament benefitting Southwest Florida Honor Flight
Deep Creek Golf Course | Punta Gorda, FL | October 15, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Sarasota, FL., Aug.13, 2002)
Southwest Florida Honor Flight presents their Fall Golf Tournament on Saturday, October 15, 2022 at Deep Creek Golf Course, 1260 San Cristobal Avenue, Punta Gorda, FL. Registration begins at 7:30 am with “Honoring our Heroes” followed by a Continental breakfast at 8 am and tee-times at 8:30 am.
Individual registration is now open. $90 per person or $360 for a team of 4. Registration fees include golf, continental breakfast, lunch and 2 drink tickets. Details and registration is available by visiting: www.swflhonorflight.org or emailing swflhonorflight@gmail.com. Many prizes – including a hole-in-one car donated by Norm Reeves Superstore of Port Charlotte.
Business and hole sponsorships are also available at various levels.
All proceeds from the golf tournament are used to transport Veterans to Washington DC in an upcoming flight. Our funding is completely from donations from individuals and businesses along with local, grassroots fundraising efforts.
Know a Veteran who would like to be on an upcoming flight? We are currently accepting applications for Veterans. Applications must be submitted either online or by mail to be considered for an upcoming flight. Seats are filled on a first come, first served basis. Top priority is given to our WWII and Korean Veterans and those with health conditions that may not allow them the ability to go on a future flight. Veterans from all era are welcome to apply.
Volunteers needed. Each mission cannot operate without volunteers. From being a Guardian, orientation, send off, mail call, day-of logistics and welcome home – we need you! Please email us at swflhonorflight@gmail.com to see how you can help!
Applications for Veterans and Guardians are available on our website or by emailing: swflhonorflight@gmail.com. You can also find us on Facebook by searching Southwest Florida Honor Flight.
Monetary donations can be sent to: SWFL Honor Flight, PO Box 495065, Port Charlotte, FL 33949
For more information, visit www.swflhonorflight.org or contact Naomi Copeland, President, Southwest Florida Honor Flight at 563.723.1503 or swflhonorflight@gmail.com.
For media interviews, contact Naomi Copeland. President, Southwest Florida Honor Flight at 563.723.1503 or swflhonorflight@gmail.com.
About Honor Flight
Formed in 2005 with a mission of honoring our nation’s veterans by bringing them to Washington DC to visit the memorials and monuments dedicated to their service and sacrifice, the Honor Flight Network is a national network comprised of independent Hubs working together in furtherance of the Honor Flight mission, showing the nation’s veterans the appreciation and honor they deserve.
About Southwest Florida Honor Flight Hub
Our mission is to transport our heroes to Washington D.C. to visit and reflect at their memorials.
Southwest Florida Honor Flight is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. We are a local hub of the National Honor Flight Network. Southwest Florida Honor Flight Hub #7 serves Veterans from Charlotte, Desoto, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands and Sarasota counties. Southwest Florida Honor Flight was established in 2007 and we have proudly taken over 1,800 Veterans to Washington D.C.—free of charge—for one day to see the monuments in their honor.
Each flight is a one-day event. Veterans are assigned a guardian who is there to help them on the flight and around D.C. for the entire day. Veterans will spend the day on motor coach buses stopping at numerous memorials in their honor. Stops have included WWII Memorial, Korean War Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Women in Military Service for America Memorial, US Marine Corps Memorial and the Air Force Memorial. Guardians pay their own way.
The Veterans and their families benefit from our organization. They can visit monuments that are there to honor them, as well as honoring those they served with, many of whom made the ultimate sacrifice. Many of these Veterans would never see these monuments if it weren’t for an Honor Flight trip.