$33,000 Raised for CHOC and CHLA at the 27th Annual Murray Company Golf Tournament

The 27^th Annual Murray Company Golf Tournament went off without a hitch! Over 280 golfers checked in to Industry Hills Golf Club on Friday, September 22^nd at 7:00 AM. This year’s start time was pushed back a few hours to beat the heat, but the heat never came. Golfers basked in the comfort of partly cloudy skies and a 78-degree day.

Nearly 90 Murray Company employees played along with over 70 sponsor-golfers and well over 100 clients and special guests like Chairman of the Board, Kevan Steffey, Chairman John Odom, Retiree Curtis Mellon and Retiree Mark Piliavin. With the tournament having a reputation for being “the best tournament in town”, a “first-class event”, “the industry’s gold standard for tournaments”, there’s never a shortage of participants and enthusiasm. Even those who don’t typically golf come out to play.

Here are just some highlights from the MC’s biggest annual fundraiser.

Scroll down to a link to over 300+ photos!

Top to Bottom: Bob Moore, Minti Hill, Andy Johnson, Craig Komata, and Jay Madison (with volunteer Carrie Meyers) with their colleagues and foursomes.

Ben Cheffers, Olivia Fields, Alex Ruvalcaba, Joe Camacho, Mike Galindo and Christopher Ellis in their respective groups.

Children’s Hospital Orange County and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles were this year’s benefitting charities, both of which work wonders in the communities that we help build with our GC partners. Murray Company has done quite a bit of work at CHLA and CHOC over the years, in fact, we’re currently in partnership with McCarthy Building Companies on the CHOC Southwest Tower Project.

At the Dinner/Awards Ceremony, President/CEO, Jim DeFlavio, called to the stage CHOC’s PX Serj Eyvazian and CHLA’s Jeff A. Moe to receive an oversized check depicting the charity amounts for their respective healthcare institutions. Murray Company matched the charity amount raised through the tournament by 100%, hence, affording each charity a $33,000 check.

Jim DeFlavio, Donny Odom, Serj Eyvazian of CHOC and Derek Fett are grateful and proud of the donation to CHOC (which was founded in 1964; coincidentally, the same year as the check number).

Jeff A. Moe of CHLA graciously accepts a donation check presented to him on behalf of Murray Company by Donny Odom, Jim DeFlavio and Derek Fett. CHLA was built in 1901 (perhaps another coincidence with the check number)

Twenty-dollar ($20) charity raffle tickets were sold online leading up the tournament and throughout the day. There were many hopefuls for the charity prize, a $5,000 gift card to The Ritz Carlton, Bacara! PX Steve Fosdick is pointing to the Bacara-bound vendor, Jordan Smith of Kohler (an event sponsor).

IKE COURSE

1^st Place Winners

Gabe Hernandez | Murray Company

Brian Moon | Hathaway Dinwiddie

Gregg Miller | Miller Environmental

Jason Hill | PCL Construction

Derek Fett congratulates the 1st place winners: Gregg Miller, Gabe Hernandez, Jason Hill (missing from photos is Brian Moon).

2^nd Place Winner

Jason Tendler | Murray Company

David Richael | Ferguson

Cheech Huang | Matt Construction

James Stanely | Suffolk Construction

Closest to the Pin #9 and $15

Abe Vogel | Clark Construction

Bill Malone | Hensel Phelps

Men’s Longest Drive | Hole #18

Jordan Smith | Kohler

Women’s Longest Drive | Hole #18

Amanda Corbet | McCarthy Building Companies

BABE COURSE

1^st Place Winners

Jeff Hosler | Murray Company

Jack Kaub | United Rentals

Jeyre Lewis | PCL Construction

Gil Tafoya | Murray Company

2nd Place: PCL’s Jeyre Lewis, United Rentals’ Jack Kaub and MC’s Jeff Hosler (missing from pic is player Gil Tafoya) + Derek Fett.

2^nd Place Winners

Mario Santilli | Murray Company

Brendan Miller | Hensel Phelps

Cade Bogren | Pinnacle

Jason Montgomery | Swinerton Builders

Closest to the Pin Hole #13 & #14

Mike Dugger | DPR Construction

Jerry Conklin | Air Treatment Corp.

Women’s Longest Drive

Ashlynn Stallworth | DPR Construction

Men’s Longest Drive

Jeff Hosler | Murray Company

All the event sponsors received a hand-crafted USA flag from Murray Company. Our very own IT Director Kevin Carlson spent 100+ hours in his garage carving 50 of these pine-wood flags. Read more on that here!

Big Shout Out to the Golf Planning Committee

Marta Martin | Director of Marketing

Kristen Steffey | Marketing Assistant

Donny Odom | Executive VP of Business Development

Derek Fett | Operations Manager

Michele Madison | Admin Assistant

Thank You Tournament Volunteers

Meredith Biscornet

Denise Boubour

Chelsea Buckley

Beatris Ceja

Raelynn Galindo