Golfers Support AASV Foundation, Raise $13,850

August 26, 2020 — AASV Staff

A beautiful day greeted golfers at the 2020 AASV Foundation Golf Outing, held August 20 at Veenker Memorial Golf Course in Ames, Iowa. Despite changes necessitated by COVID-19, the event benefited from an excellent turnout of golfers and strong support from sponsors, raising $13,850 for the foundation. The winning team, hosted by Pharmgate Animal Health, included two members of last year's top team: Jeff Okones and Matt Sexton, who were joined this year by Ralph Wilson and Tim Henry. Their overall team score for the best-ball format was 15 under par, 6 strokes ahead of the runners-up: Mark Weaver, Ross Brown, Chris Rademacher, and Chris Sparks, hosted by Cambridge Technologies. The third-place team consisted of 3 individual registrants: Daryl Hammer, Dan Rosener, and Rick Sibbel, who combined their efforts to come in 7 strokes under par.

A total of 56 golfers on 15 teams tested their skills against the challenging course. The golfers also enjoyed a variety of games, contests, and giveaways hosted at the golf holes by sponsors Aurora Pharmaceutical, GVL, Huvepharma, Insight Wealth Group, Kemin Animal Nutrition & Health, NPPC, Pharmgate Animal Health, Phibro Animal Health, and Topigs Norsvin USA.

Box lunches accompanied by sleeves of golf balls were provided by APC and beverages were sponsored by Zoetis. Although COVID-19 restrictions prevented holding the traditional awards dinner to conclude the event, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health maintained their financial support to benefit the foundation.

Golfers were able to enter scores and monitor the event leaderboard on their phones throughout the afternoon using scrolf.com. After the event, the foundation announced team and individual contest winners (see below) by email, and prizes were mailed to the winners.

Sincere thanks are extended to coordinator Dr. Josh Ellingson for his work to ensure a fun outing for participants and a successful fundraiser for the foundation. Proceeds from the event support a variety of foundation programs, including scholarships, research grants, travel stipends for veterinary students to attend the annual meeting, swine externship grants, and more.

And the winners are ...

First flight

• 1st place - Pharmgate Animal Health: Jeff Okones, Matt Sexton, Ralph Wilson, Tim Henry
• 2nd place - Cambridge Technologies: Mark Weaver, Ross Brown, Chris Rademacher, Chris Sparks
• 3rd place - Individual Registrants: Daryl Hammer, Dan Rosener, Rick Sibbel

Second flight

• 1st place - Zoetis: Josh Ellingson, Trey Kellner, Steve Schmitz, Nick Weis
• 2nd place- NPPC: Tyler Bettin, Tom Floy, Derrick Sleezer, Doug Fricke
• 3rd place - ISU VDL: Eric Burrough, Justin Brown, Drew Magstadt

Third flight

• 1st place - Topigs Norsvin USA: Mitch Christensen, Amber Stricker, Trevor Schwartz, Ethan Spronk
• 2nd place - Fast Genetics: Steve Sornsen, Darrell Neuberger, Kent Schwartz, Jeff Zimmerman
• 3rd place - Pharmacosmos: Chris Olsen, Daniel Boykin, Christine Mainquist-Whigham

Individual contests

• Hole #1, Longest drive: Austin Putz
• Hole #5, Closest to the pin, 2nd shot: Drew Magstadt
• Hole #7, Closest to the target drive (sponsored by Topigs Norsvin USA): Rick Sibbel
• Hole #9, Longest putt (sponsored by Aurora Pharmaceutical): Mark Weaver
• Hole #11, Closest to the pin (sponsored by Huvepharma): Matt Sexton
• Hole #15, Closest to the target drive: Christine Mainquist-Whigham
• Hole #15, Bottle opener putting contest (sponsored by NPPC): Keith Bretey
• Hole #18, Longest putt: Grant Weaver
• Hole #18, Raffle winner (sponsored by Pharmgate Animal Health): Amber Stricker

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AASV staff contributed to or researched this story. For more information about the AASV, please visit http://www.aasv.org/.