The REPORTER
The Bob Kravitz ALS Golf Classic will take place Monday, July 8 at Prairie View Golf Club in Carmel.
Hosted by the ALS Association, the annual golf tournament brings together golf lovers, community business leaders, and philanthropists to work together to increase awareness and raise money to support local Hoosier ALS families.
Registration opens at 9:30 a.m., with the golf outing at 11 a.m. in a shotgun start. The dinner and auction will follow the golf outing.
Kravitz, a sports journalist, works to secure local and national celebrities to golf and network with participants. In 2007 Bob lost his mother, Edith, to ALS. The Bob Kravitz ALS Golf Classic is organized not only in memory of Edith but in support of all those impacted by ALS. The outing raises funds for Hoosiers and their families as they navigate the unknown waters of this disease supporting the mission work of the ALS Association in their vital work to make ALS a livable disease for everyone, everywhere until it can be cured.
ALS, often called Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive motor neuron disease, which gradually robs people of their ability to walk, talk, swallow, and eventually breathe. ALS has no known cause or cure, but the community is rallying together to do whatever it takes to change that. With only two to five years to live, people living with ALS have an urgent need, and the community is stepping in to fill it by walking or running for those who can’t.