ARCHIVED  June 29, 2001

Teeing off to help charity, themselves

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Golf sponsorships growing in area

Need to raise some money? Need to increase community awareness of your company?

Organizing a benefit golf tournament in Northern Colorado — and sponsoring such an event — is increasingly becoming the thing to do. So much so, in fact, that tournaments have become a rite of summer.

“I think there are a lot more organizations out there trying to use golf as a means for fund raising,´ said Mike Auerbach, general manager of the Greeley Country Club. “I’ve seen an increase in the requests for tournaments at the country club.”

Before he gives the OK, however, Auerbach said…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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