BRISTOL, Va. — The story of how the “Big 3” in golf reunited in Bristol, Va., to break another PGA record – this time for charitable fundraising – will be featured in a one-hour special on CBS this Saturday.
Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player – who dominated golf in the 1960s and 1970s as the sport’s Big 3 – played together on June 8, at The Olde Farm Golf Club in Bristol to raise an astonishing $15.1 million to benefit Mountain Mission School in Grundy, Va. This extraordinary effort was documented by PGA Tour Entertainment, and The Big 3 for Mountain Mission Kids Presented by Johnson & Johnson will air at 2 p.m. (EDT) on 11 Connects, WJHL.
Wearing wireless microphones, Nicklaus, Palmer and Player give viewers a taste of their camaraderie and interaction with guests at the unique golf event, which included a 19-hole scramble match pairing the Big 3 competing with three different amateur sponsor teams on each hole. The fundraiser, sanctioned by the PGA TOUR and organized by Grundy native Jim McGlothlin, founder of The Olde Farm, had participants pay $100,000 to play in the scramble, including a memorable hole with the Big 3.
The Big 3 for Mountain Mission Kids Presented by Johnson & Johnson also focuses on Mountain Mission School, where 230 resident students – ages 18 months to 20 years – attend classes on a campus that offers grades pre-kindergarten through 12. Money raised at the event is being used to establish a sustained endowment for the private school, which has sheltered and educated an estimated 20,000 needy children during its 87-year history, operating totally from private donations.
The Olde Farm, located at 16639 Old Jonesboro Road in Bristol, is represented by 300 members who reside throughout the United States. The Olde Farm golf course, one of Golf Week’s Top 50 Modern Courses in America, features bent grass fairways, greens and tees in a beautifully sculptured natural setting. The course was ranked eighth in Golf Digest’s America’s 50 Greatest Golf Retreats in 2006. The Clubhouse – patterned after Castle Hill, a 200-year-old historic home in Charlottesville, Va. – is situated on the site of the area’s first home, built between 1748 and 1788 in a grove of oak trees, two of which still shade the grounds. The Long Barn, formerly a working tobacco barn, serves as a watering hole and way station. It is located in the middle of holes 6, 7, 13, 14 and 16.
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