Shine the Light Foundation Fighting Blindness Golf Outing

Name: Shine the Light Foundation Fighting Blindness Golf Outing
Start: 2024-10-14T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-10-14T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Rich Harvest Farms

October 14

The Second Annual “Shine the Light” Fundraiser will be held on Monday, October 14^th at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, IL. Here’s your chance to support a great cause and play on one of the most respected and exclusive golf courses in the Chicagoland area.

Funds raised at this event directly support The Foundation Fighting Blindness and specifically to “Shine the Light” and the inherited retinal disease known as Retinitis Pigmentosa.

Since its opening, Rich Harvest Farms has become a premiere destination for golfers from all over the world, attracting a series of prestigious amateur and professional tournaments, including the 2009 Solheim Cup® as well as the 2022 and 2023 LIV Golf Chicago. The facility is also home to the Kids Golf Foundation of Illinois and the Northern Illinois University Huskies Men’s & Women’s Golf Teams.

Those participating in the FULL-DAY event will receive:

Full driving range access
Buffet lunch at the Rich Harvest Farms Pavilion
Dedicated caddy for your foursome
18 holes of pure golf (this is NOT a scramble)
On course service while golfing
Some planned “special” features at certain holes
Post golf cocktail and networking
Buffet dinner and speaker program
Limited foursomes are still available

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE EVENT

The Foundation Fighting Blindness was established in 1971 by a passionate group of individuals determined to help find treatments and cures for blinding diseases affecting themselves or loved ones. The driving force in the global development of treatments and cures for blinding diseases, the Foundation Fighting Blindness has raised over $915 million to date.

That funding has helped with the identification of more than 270 genes linked to retinal disease and the launch of over 45 clinical trials for potential treatments. The Foundation funds innovative and cutting-edge research in promising areas such as genetics, gene and stem-cell therapies, retinal cell transplantation, and pharmaceutical and nutritional therapies.