The 2nd Annual Melvin “Skip” Alston Golf Classic – which is a big event that raises a lot of money to fight homelessness – is going to have to take place at a later date due to the failure of North Carolina’s weather to cooperate.
“I have just been notified by the golf course that they are forecasting 100 percent chance of rain on Monday,” Alston told the Rhino Times on Friday, Oct. 24
The event was supposed to take place on Monday, Oct. 27.
The charity golf tournament has been rescheduled to Monday, Nov.10 at 9 a.m. It’s a “shotgun” tournament which means all groups of players will tee off simultaneously from tees at different holes.
Proceeds from the golf classic will support homelessness initiatives in Guilford County.
Registration is required if you want to take part.
“Last year we raised $175,000,” Alston said. “This year the goal is to raise $200,000.”
The tournament will be held at Grandover Resort at 1000 Club Road in Greensboro.
In early 2024, a local organization of prominent area black business leaders came to Alston and asked to establish a new yearly golf tournament in his name – The Annual Melvin ‘Skip’ Alston Golf Classic.
Alston eventually agreed, but only if all the proceeds went to help the homeless – so the new official name of the tournament ended up as the Annual Melvin ‘Skip’ Alston Golf Classic To Benefit The Homeless.
Last year it was played at Grandover as it will be this year.
Alston said he wasn’t sure he was hearing right when he first got asked.
“I was totally flattered,” he said.
The chairman said the group of business leaders selected him because he had for decades been a proprietor of several successful businesses as well as an devoted golfer.
He explained back in 2024 why he would only allow his name to be used for the tournament if the proceeds went to help the homeless.
“That has been what I have been focused on – ending homelessness in the county – so that’s how I wanted the money to be used,” he said.
Last year’s goal was to raise $100,000 for the cause and the tournament exceeded the number by 75 percent.
Alston is an avid golfer and a good one at that.
His score is consistently in the 80s.
In August of 2021, Alston came within two inches of winning $25,000 on a hole-in-one shot while playing in a golf tournament held for county commissioners at the annual state convention of commissioners and other county officials. (The prize money wasn’t taxpayer money, but instead was put up by a local sponsor of the convention.)
That happened at the Beau Rivage Golf Course in Wilmington as part of the fun activities at the conference where the commissioners and other county officials also reportedly do some serious work.
Because of a hill, at first, Alston couldn’t see how close his shot was to the hole, and another player in his group, who was walking ahead of the cart Alston was driving, saw it.
The other player exclaimed, “Damn!”
Then Alston saw his ball – just 2 inches away from the hole and the giant payout.
“I saw it and I said ‘Man, man, man!” the disappointed Alston told the Rhino Times last year.
More recently, Alston said that he could beat Donald Trump in golf, with one caveat: “As long as he isn’t allowed to cheat like he’s known to do.”
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Echoes of Francois Hollande and Rishi Sunak…?
Isn’t Rishi a conservative?
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You simply don’t understand… as usual.
Just another skip shakedown
Lol let me guess, you excuse the grifts and payoff/brides given to Trump? Like a private jet in exchange for a foreign air training base in the US.
More fake rage from the right.
Trump ! Trump ! Trump ! Trump !
Liberals are completely deranged – by Trump Derangement Syndrome. They’re mentally ill.
I hope he is using the proceeds to pay back all the money he “borrowed” from city and county governments—NOT!
Please remember to provide the names of the homelessness initiatives that receive the money raised from the golf tournament.
i would consider playing if i smacked 4 to 6 balls one after another & using my colored balls for distinction between players.. .. .. .. .. a ‘meadow grass height’ course with wilder terrain & < maintenance/mowing. graze animals on it harvest plants while bouncing the little ball thru it . run off snakes while drinking beer ! big buck noted @ # 12 of my dream course fish then golf
Scott what is the amount that taxpayers give to skips museum every year for 5 years
The commissioners gave the museum $1 million two years ago and are now giving the museum $200,000 every year as part of a commitment to give the museum an additional million over a five year period.
the young men got hot dog grilled cheese & an insurance policy good for the life of the meme ! my irish ancestry is certainly more illustrious . . . where is my museum ? ( every saloon )
Thanks Scott
The county gave the museum $1 million two years ago and is now giving it 200,000 a year for five years as part of a commitment to give it an additional $1 million.
& a big expensive former bank building beside it in the center of our least activity section of n elm st.
remember when the COG politicians bought the former bi – right on phillips @ summit & attempted to operate a supermarket there. it morphed into a training ground for shoplifters & embezzlers. another training ground for the ‘non-profit’ politicians.