Huntington, New York – The 2024 Big Daddy Celebrity Golf Classic is a hole-in-one competition between actors, athletes and celebrities taking place on June 23-24, 2024 on the shores of Long Island, New York. Competition and friendship. More than $200,000 raised to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s life-saving mission®: Find a cure. Save the children. ® The two-day event was a star-studded event.
More than 25 celebrities joined event founder Rich “Big Daddy” Salgado to ensure families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel accommodations or food so they can focus on helping their children live. Salgado is the CEO of Coastal Advisors, a celebrity insurance broker, and a long-time St. Jude supporter and volunteer.
In 2010, wealthy “Big Daddy” Salgado personally organized a gathering with friends and colleagues to support St. Jude families and took time to visit the Memphis campus and learn about the power of uniting others for the greater good. importance. Founded more than 60 years ago, St. Jude makes a difference in the lives of children in the United States and around the world thanks to the support of entertainers, celebrities and donors.
Salgado and Taylor, a St. Jude patient, formed a special bond after meeting at St. Jude in Memphis more than a decade ago. Taylor, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2013, inspired Salgado and they became good friends. After two and a half years of chemotherapy, physical and occupational therapy, Taylor is now a high school graduate and an avid runner who completed his first marathon in 2023, the St. Jude Memphis Marathon® weekend, while raising funds to help other St. Jude residents. Tyler participated in the Dad Celebrity Golf Classic this year, sharing his cancer journey with attendees.
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About St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the world in understanding, treating and defeating childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Its purpose is clear: Find a cure. Save the children. It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center specifically for children. When St. Jude opened in 1962, childhood cancer was largely considered incurable. Since then, St. Jude has helped increase overall survival rates from 20 percent to over 80 percent, a goal that will not stop until no child dies from cancer. St. Jude shares its breakthroughs to help doctors and researchers at local hospitals and cancer centers around the world improve the quality of treatment and care for more children. Thanks to generous donations, families never receive a St. Jude bill for treatment, travel, housing or food, so they can focus on helping their children live. Visit St. Jude Inspire and discover St. Jude’s story of hope, strength, love, and kindness. Support the mission of St. Jude by donating at stjude.org, liking St. Jude on Facebook, and following St. Jude on Facebook XInstagram, LinkedIn and TikTok, and subscribe to its YouTube channel.
