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DBC Offers Fans a Chance to Chip at Fenway Park

Three raffle winners to take aim at a $5,000 prize and a $50,000 donation to the Red Sox Foundation with 100-yard chip shots from home plate.

Golfers and Red Sox fans alike will have an opportunity to test their short games at Fenway Park later this month thanks to a Chipping in for the Red Sox Foundation event that will help kick off the Deutsche Bank Championship, the PGA TOUR Playoffs event being held Aug. 30 to Sept. 5 at .

 On Monday, Aug. 29, three grand prize raffle winners will have the chance to join Red Sox legend and Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Rice and step up to home plate at Fenway to chip a golf ball into the outfield. Anyone hitting a one-foot-diameter target in center field will win a $5,000 prize and a $50,000 donation to the Red Sox Foundation in the winner's name.

 Golfers and Red Sox fans hoping to take part in this opportunity can purchase raffle tickets for $25 each at www.redsox.com/golf. Raffle tickets will be on sale Aug. 5 to 25, and the drawing is open to Massachusetts residents 18 and older. In addition, each raffle ticket purchased will include a ticket to the Deutsche Bank Championship's Red Sox Legends & Friends Pro-Am, held Tuesday, Sept. 2 at TPC Boston.

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 A limited number of tickets will be sold, and the drawing will be held Aug. 25 at noon.

 "We're looking forward to once again starting Deutsche Bank Championship week with a fun and unique event that combines New England golf fans' passion for golf and the Red Sox," said Eric Baldwin, championship director of the Deutsche Bank Championship. "Moreover, we're excited for the opportunity to drive charitable dollars to the Red Sox Foundation, as supporting local charities is a big part of what we do at the Championship."

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 In addition to the three grand prizes to golf at Fenway, other raffle prizes include a Red Sox Destinations Spring Training package; four Green Monster tickets to an April 2012 Red Sox game; an opportunity to watch batting practice and a personalized scoreboard message; five 30-minute golf lessons at the Golf Town Academy, located at each of the Golf Town stores in Massachusetts; four grandstand tickets to a 2012 Red Sox game; an opportunity to watch batting practice and a personalized scoreboard message; and a Red Sox home jersey signed by Rice.

 All proceeds from the raffle will benefit the Red Sox Foundation's award-winning programs, including Red Sox Scholars, RBI youth baseball and softball and the Red Sox Foundation and MGH Home Base Program.

 Aside from the three raffle winners, Rice, a Red Sox front-office executive and two randomly drawn participants from the Red Sox Legends & Friends Pro-Am will chip golf balls during the event, increasing the odds that someone will hit the target and secure a $50,000 donation to the Red Sox Foundation.

 "The Red Sox Foundation is excited to partner with the Deutsche Bank Championship in bringing this unique golf moment to Fenway Park," said Meg Vaillancourt, the senior vice president and executive director of the Red Sox Foundation. "Red Sox Nation will be rooting hard for Hall of Famer Jim Rice and the raffle winners to hit the perfect chip shot. A $50,000 donation would go a long way to supporting our team charity's Red Sox Scholars and RBI programs and our community's wounded veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with traumatic brain injuries and combat stress disorders."

 The event is part of the Deutsche Bank Red Sox & Friends Pro-Am draw party at Fenway Park, the first in a series of great events highlighting Deutsche Bank Championship week. The Deutsche Bank Championship opens on Tuesday, Aug. 30 with practice and pro-am events on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Competition rounds begin Friday, Sept. 3 and run through Labor Day Monday, Sept. 6, giving the Deutsche Bank Championship the only scheduled Monday finish on the PGA TOUR. The Championship features the top 100 players in this year's PGA TOUR FedExCup standings.

 


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