Almeida Adventures: Celebrity Golf Tournament is in July 2009

Hank & I are excited to be volunteers again for the American Century Championship in Lake Tahoe at Edgewood Country Club. The Tahoe Celebrity Golf week is July 14 - 19 and we will be up there for 5 days and will work 4 of those days. It's their 20th Anniversary so I suspect there will be even more hoopla than normal. This event is so much fun and we enjoy participating very much. They are having a special prize for one lucky volunteer that submits/shares their memorable moments looking back over the 20 years. We've only been working the event since 2006, but we submitted a picture of a plaque that we made from 2006.

Here's the plaque as we were building it.

Here's the finished plaque.

This is the picture of me and Scott Hamilton (professional figure skater) whom I adore.

Click on this link to read what we submitted and you can read all the other stories if you like.
http://www.tahoecelebritygolf.com/features/2009/flashbacks.html

Here's the link to the home page of the American Century Championship if you want to check it out http://www.tahoecelebritygolf.com/

This was our adventure at the Celebrity Golf in 2008... lots of fun!!!
As soon as we get back from the 2009 event, I'll post more pictures.

We spent 4 days working the event and met some really nice people. Day 1 we were Marshall's at the putting green. Day 2 we scored for John O'Hurley (Mr. Peterman from Seinfeld, Dancing w/the Stars, Family Feud), Kevin Nealon (Saturday Night Live & films) & Trent Green (NFL Miami Dolphins). Day 3 we had Bode Miller (Professional Alpine Skiing), Herman Edwards (NFL head coach Kansas City Chiefs) & Terence Newman (NFL Dallas Cowboys Cornerback). Day 4 was Jason Taylor (NFL Miami Dolphins Defensive End & Dancing w/the Stars), Emmitt Smith (NFL Dallas Cowboys retired all pro-running back & Dancing w/the Stars) & Terence Newman (NFL Dallas Cowboys all pro-cornerback).

Here we are with Herman Edwards. Herm was the NICEST guy ever and we really enjoyed spending the day with him. I was trying to get a picture of him walking the course and he asked his caddy to stop and take a picture of Hank & I with him... and he instisted on holding the sign!!! He's too cool... considering sometimes you might get a celebrity that is above everyone else and too good to talk to us... the nobodies. We were paired up with Herman the previous year also and he actually remembered us, we couldn't believe it. Out of all the people he meets in any given year he remember us little guys... we were impressed.

Terrance Newman

John O'Hurley, Trent Green, Keven Nealon

John O'Hurley

Lance Armstrong - The really famous people have FBI and police officers WITH GUNS following and protecting them from excited fans.

This is inside the scoring tent where hank & the players go after the round to double check all the scores to ensure they all agree.

Ray Ramano

We can get really close to all the celeb's... it's so exciting! This is the tent where they come just before they tee off.

Terrance Newman graciously taking a picture with me on one of the tee boxes. He was soooooooooooo nice and we became quick friends.

Trent Green and Hank posing for the snap shot.

These are some of the 320 volunteers that they have each year. They throw the volunteers a party on Saturday night and they give away tons of good stuff. In 2008 we won two rounds of golf at Edgewood (a $300 value) and a boat ride on the Delta Queen across the lake to Emerald Bay. It was a very cool weekend enjoying our freebies.

Bode Miller

Brandi Chastain

This is the VIP tent where we go on Sunday, the last day of the event. Every thing is FREE, food & beverages and the celeb's really ham it up on this hole for the crowd.