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Golfers Channel the Olympic Spirit at 28th Annual El Camino Heritage Golf Tournament
One hundred thirteen golfers summoned their Olympic spirit and came together in friendship and unity for the 28th Annual El Camino Heritage Golf Tournament at Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club on October 21. The benefit raised more than $210,000 for a new program being developed by the Cancer Center and Scrivner Center for Mental Health & Addiction Services that will provide emotional support to cancer patients and their families.
Grammy Award winner Tony Lindsay sang a heartfelt national anthem to open the competition and golfers drove off to their starting holes. The weather was perfect and spirits were high throughout the day. “The Olympics are about striving for excellence, dreaming big, and coming together for a higher purpose,” Golf Tournament Chair Ken King told the exhilarated golfers, tournament sponsors and guests at the Closing Ceremony celebration dinner. “On the golf course we were teams from around the world. Tonight, we are all on Team El Camino.”
Cancer Center Medical Director Shyamali Singhal, MD, PhD, and Scrivner Center Chief Medical Director Katherine Taylor, MD, made a joint appeal for the beneficiary program. “Cancer is a physical disease and an emotional disease,” Dr. Singhal said. “Your mortality and fears come together while you are going through treatment. Someone needs to help you put the pieces together when catastrophe strikes.” Dr. Taylor described that need from her perspective as a psychiatrist who has supported patients through emotional trauma and as a cancer survivor who was overcome by feelings of loneliness, despair, and anxiety during treatment and after. The new program will give patients a safe place to express their feelings and help them develop the resilience they need during treatment and to prevent the emotional trauma from recurring in the future.
The festivities concluded with the presentation of medals to tournament and contest-on-thecourse winners, and showing of the fun day-of golf recap video. The 28th Annual El Camino Heritage Golf Tournament Olympic Flame was out but the generosity of spirit it represents will continue to provide hope to cancer patients and their families.
