Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 2: Meeting's time now for our community connection, the first of
Speaker 2: many today and we have Chris Batchelder in here and
Speaker 2: we're talking to the Sports Commission today.
Speaker 1: Hey you do any young man, Tom.
Speaker 3: I'm doing great. Happy to be first of many.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I hope they're all as interesting as this
Speaker 3: one's gonna be.
Speaker 2: Well, how interesting is this? It's gonna be very interesting
Speaker 2: next for sure. What we got coming up, It's going
Speaker 2: to be interesting.
Speaker 4: Next Wednesday, I can tell you that when we have
Speaker 4: our annual Masters Party at Hillcrest Country Club to benefit
Speaker 4: the Sports Commission. We have this party every year on
Speaker 4: the Wednesday of the Par three contest at the Masters,
Speaker 4: which is kind of the first official day of activities
Speaker 4: out there. There's practice rounds Monday Tuesday, but Wednesday is
Speaker 4: the big.
Speaker 3: Par three contest in Georgia.
Speaker 4: So we line up with that and try to raise
Speaker 4: a little money for the Bartlesville Sports Commission.
Speaker 3: And it's always a good time.
Speaker 4: It's golf themed and so we have a costume contest.
Speaker 3: We hope that people when.
Speaker 4: They buy their tickets will get out their best golf attire.
Speaker 4: We have people dress up as caddies. We have people
Speaker 4: dress up with knickers and you know, the hats and
Speaker 4: all that. It's really a good time and this is
Speaker 4: our primary fundraiser every year. We have several other events,
Speaker 4: as you know, but this is the one that really
Speaker 4: raises us the money.
Speaker 3: So we're excited about it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're gonna have anybody there with plaid pants
Speaker 2: pulled up to their arm pits.
Speaker 3: We usually do, I can tell you that for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, any kind of way you can mock the game
Speaker 4: of golf or how people traditionally dress playing it, it happens.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Now who can participate in this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, anybody can.
Speaker 4: So if you go to Bartlesville sports dot net Bartlesville
Speaker 4: sports dot net, you'll be able to click on the
Speaker 4: link on the homepage for the Master's Party and they
Speaker 4: can go and get tickets. The tickets are fifty dollars
Speaker 4: for YEP for an individual ticket and eighty five dollars
Speaker 4: for a couple. And not just is that it includes
Speaker 4: beer and wine and a bunch of Master's food. You know,
Speaker 4: there's some food that you can only find at the
Speaker 4: tournament at Augusta, and we try to replicate as much
Speaker 4: of that as we can, and it's really a good time.
Speaker 4: You know, everything down there when you go to the
Speaker 4: tournament is unlabeled. So they have since the tournament began
Speaker 4: over one hundred years ago, they have held off, you know,
Speaker 4: succumbing to corporate pressure and sponsorship and stuff. And so
Speaker 4: the prices out there are the same as they were
Speaker 4: when the tournament started, and they're all generic. You know,
Speaker 4: it says cola or diet cola, or beer or light beer.
Speaker 3: It doesn't say what brand it is.
Speaker 4: And so we try to do some things like that
Speaker 4: that are kind of funny at the party and try
Speaker 4: to make it, you know, as as like Augusta as
Speaker 4: we can.
Speaker 3: It's a good time. And then we also one of
Speaker 3: the ways.
Speaker 4: We raise a little bit of money is we have
Speaker 4: a long putt content. So if you've ever been upstairs
Speaker 4: at Hillcrest, there's this real long hallway that goes over
Speaker 4: toward the lounge, and we have a putt that goes
Speaker 4: from one end to that hallway to the other. We've
Speaker 4: got water and sand and stuff in front of it,
Speaker 4: and so people can do that to win a putter.
Speaker 4: And then we also kind of have two live auction
Speaker 4: things that happened throughout the night. One is we auction
Speaker 4: off the actual Masters field, so you and I can
Speaker 4: outbid each other to bid on Scotti Scheffler, and then
Speaker 4: if you have Scotty Scheffler and he wins the tournament,
Speaker 4: you win half the pod and half goes to the
Speaker 4: Sports Commission.
Speaker 3: So that's fun. And then we.
Speaker 4: Also have a actual live auction that has several really
Speaker 4: great items in it, but kind of our signature item
Speaker 4: starting last year, and then he's doing it for us
Speaker 4: again this year. Is a one of a kind John
Speaker 4: Linn Bloom painting. He revealed it last night on Facebook.
Speaker 4: You can go look it up on the Bartlesville Sports
Speaker 4: Commission Facebook page. By the way, if you're not subscribing
Speaker 4: to that and following it already, you need to do that.
Speaker 4: It's got a lot of great content about the Bruins
Speaker 4: and other local sports stuff. But if you go to
Speaker 4: that Facebook page, you'll see you'll see this painting. But
Speaker 4: it's that famous picture of John Day getting ready to
Speaker 4: hit a.
Speaker 3: Driver that's cranked all the way.
Speaker 4: Back and he's got his loud clothes on and it's
Speaker 4: a really cool picture.
Speaker 3: So somebody has a chance to win a one of
Speaker 3: a kind painting.
Speaker 4: Tom listened to this, so last year the painting he
Speaker 4: did for us was a really famous picture of Jack
Speaker 4: Nicholas hitting out of the sand at the Masters with
Speaker 4: this big, you know, spread collar and sweater on from
Speaker 4: back in the seventies.
Speaker 3: Cool picture.
Speaker 4: But so it ended up in the hands of Tim Johnson.
Speaker 4: Daniel Johnson is on our board and his brother Tim
Speaker 4: is the ad at O r U, and they were
Speaker 4: having an event last summer with Jack Nicholas speaking at it,
Speaker 4: and so Tim ended up buying the picture and actually
Speaker 4: presenting it to Jack, who now owns this one of
Speaker 4: a kind John Linn Bloom painting of himself. So I
Speaker 4: thought that was a really cool story. And John and
Speaker 4: John Daley actually have a relationship already, so he's done
Speaker 4: some custom stuff for John Daley already. But so I
Speaker 4: don't think we're gonna lose this one to the artist.
Speaker 4: But it is a really really cool painting. So yeah,
Speaker 4: that's gonna be really fun. And then's just a bunch
Speaker 4: of other fun stuff. Where can we sign up Bartlesville
Speaker 4: sports dot net and click on the Master's party and
Speaker 4: you can get your tickets and again all of this
Speaker 4: benefits the Bartlesville Sports Commission.
Speaker 3: We give away.
Speaker 4: Somewhere between fifty and eighty thousand dollars a year to
Speaker 4: Bartlesville High School and youth sports grants in our community.
Speaker 4: It's been going since two thousand and six and has
Speaker 4: has done a lot of really, really great work to
Speaker 4: benefit athletics in Bartlesville. So Bartlesville Sports dot Net Master's Party.
Speaker 1: Well, this is gonna be great, folks.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have some fun for you and you're gonna
Speaker 2: help some youngsters in the community for sure.
Speaker 1: Hey, Chris, this is awesome.
Speaker 4: Tom, it always is, buddy, How'll be back anytime you're ready.
Speaker 1: All right, Hey, thank you very much coming in.
Speaker 2: Let us know all right, that's Chris Batchelder with us
Speaker 2: here and Kate one the one you trust.
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