Earlier this week, RSM US
LLP (“RSM”) – sponsor of The RSM Classic – announced the
addition of Chris
Kirk, PGA TOUR professional and winner of the 2013
RSM Classic, to Team RSM.
Kirk, a native of Atlanta and a
former resident of Sea Island, home of The RSM Classic, claimed his first PGA
TOUR victory at the Viking Classic (now the Sanderson Farms Championship) in
2011 and claimed the second of his four PGA TOUR
victories at The RSM Classic in 2013. Most recently, he took home the trophy at the 2015 Crowne Plaza
Invitational at Colonial.
“The game of
golf and RSM have a lot of common, including our core values of respect,
integrity, teamwork, excellence and stewardship. Over the past four years we
have had an opportunity to get to know Chris and Tahnee, and we couldn’t be
more excited to have the Kirk family as part of Team RSM. Chris’s passion for
his family, his community and for the game of golf make him a great fit not
only with RSM, but with the other members of Team RSM, as well.” – Andy Bosman,
chief marketing officer with RSM US LLP
This week on the golf course,
Team RSM members Zach
Johnson and Chris
Kirk are playing in the Career Builder Challenge. Joining in the fun at La Quinta, CA for the tournament are past RSM Classic
winners Ben Crane (2011), Kevin Kisner (2015),
Mac Hughes (2016),
and Austin Cook (2017).
Below are their tee times for Thurs., Jan. 18:
|
PLAYER
|
TEE #
|
TEE TIME (PST)
|
COURSE
|
|
Zach Johnson
|
1
|
9:10 a.m.
|
La Quinta Country Club
|
|
Chris Kirk
|
10
|
10:10 a.m.
|
La Quinta Country Club
|
|
Austin Cook
|
1
|
9:40 a.m.
|
Nicklaus Tournament
|
|
Mac Hughes
|
1
|
9:40 a.m.
|
Nicklaus Tournament
|
|
Kevin Kisner
|
10
|
10:10 a.m.
|
Nicklaus Tournament
|
|
Ben Crane
|
10
|
10:20 a.m.
|
Nicklaus Tournament
|
Starting off the new year on a charitable note, the PGA TOUR recently shared
an article about the total amount generated for
charities by tournaments in 2017. The article discusses how the 2017 tournaments surpassed $180 million, which exceeded last year’s record by $14
million! Below is an excerpt from the article. Read
the full piece here.
The announcement
brings the all-time total generated for charity by the PGA TOUR to $2.65
billion. The TOUR surpassed $1 billion in 2005 and $2 billion at the beginning
of 2014.
“The entire PGA TOUR family takes tremendous pride in the
positive impact that we continue to make each year through the millions of
dollars that are raised for very deserving charitable organizations,” said PGA
TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan. “As we often note, beyond the sheer dollar
amount, the real story is in the hundreds of thousands of lives that benefit
from these contributions every year. Thank you to all of the tournaments,
players, sponsors, volunteers and fans who make all of this possible.”
The shared focus on stewardships
values is one of the reasons
RSM got involved with golf initially. One of the most gratifying aspects of sponsoring
The RSM Classic is the opportunity it provides to give back. Supporting
nonprofit organizations, especially those focused on enhancing educational
outcomes and the quality of life for children and families, is an extension of RSM’s
rich history of community involvement – a history that began more than 90 years
ago when our firm began in 1926.
Through The RSM Classic’s Birdies
Fore Love program, thousands of RSM
partners, employees, clients and friends donate each
year to charitable organizations across the country. With a match
from the RSM
US Foundation, we have been able to give
more
than $2 million to deserving organizations this year alone, bringing the grand total raised through
the tournament to $9 million to date. And the numbers from this year’s
tournament are still coming in.
Check back next week for more
updates on Team RSM,
The RSM Classic (Nov. 12-18, 2018) and other golf-related news.
For more than a decade,
Zach Johnson has held what amounts to an annual two-day summit to inspect every
part of his game, figure out what needs to get better and make a plan going
forward. He referred to the most recent meeting as the best one yet… Even so,
he had to contain some excitement leaving his two-day meeting last fall that
included everyone involved with his game — swing, mental and fitness coaches,
statisticians, his wife and caddie, friends that hold him accountable, even his
financial adviser.
