Clearview hosts LPGA players for fundraiser

Six LPGA players will be in attendance.
EAST CANTON -- Clearview Legacy Foundation is hosting two fundraising events June 11-12.
A Pro-Am format will feature six LPGA Tour members representing the six decades of Clearview Golf Course.
The professionals are Marilynn Smith, Murle Breer, Sandra Post, Mary Lou Crocker, Tammie Green and Renee Powell.
Each LPGA member will be on a separate hole so that each group will have an opportunity to play a hole with them.
Clinic before tournament
The cost for the Pro-Am June 12 is $1000 per four-person team. The day will begin with a clinic followed by a scramble format that begins at 10 a.m. and will conclude with a dinner and awards ceremony. Also included in the price is a dinner and program Sunday evening at the Foltz Community Center in East Canton at 7:30 p.m.
Individual cost to cover both days is $300. The dinner and LPGA program only on Sunday is $60. Table for eight for dinner and program is $450.
Smith is a co-founder of the LPGA, while Breer is a former U.S. Open champion and winner of four other LPGA tournaments.
Post was Canada's first golfer to play on the LPGA Tour, while Mary Lou Crocker and Powell first met in 1962 at the USGA Girls Jr. Championship.
Tammie Green to play
A life long resident of Somerset, Ohio, Green is the tour captain for the LPGA USGA Girls Golf of East Canton. Before turning pro, she was a member of the Marshall University golf team and won four collegiate events.
Green has numerous tour victories, including the Du Maurier Ltd., one of the LPGA's former majors. In 1998, she became the first player ever to compete in the Solheim Cup while pregnant, she also won the LPGA Corning Classic and crossed the $3 million mark in career earnings in that same year.
She has visited Clearview several times - both to participate in pro-ams and to also spend time with the girls golf program.
Renee Powell is host
Powell learned the game under the guidance of her father at the age of 3. Her father designed and built the course in 1946. It was through the instructions from her father and the support of her mother that she has made golf her career.
She played junior, college, amateur and professional golf and now spends a great deal of her time teaching the game.
She is currently the assistant golf coach for both the women's and men's golf teams at Baldwin-Wallace College.
As Clearview celebrates its 60th anniversary, Powell has been involved with organizing this event.
Anyone interested in participating in this event as a player, sponsor or making a donation can call Clearview at (330) 488-0404.