The planned marathon almost didn't happen. All Cory, Eric and I can do is find something to galvanize people to think about what families who have someone with ALS are going through." A chance meeting in ‘Nowhere’ "You can't do the things you used to love doing, all the things we take for granted. "Every day for my Dad is a struggle, just to swallow or drink water," Litt said.
Litt that without a cure, "you're relying on hope every day." “Playing 100 holes of golf will be nothing compared to what our fathers went through." “Both of our fathers were inspirations to our families about how they handled it,” he said. Sullivan said the effort required to play 100 holes in 90-degree heat pales in comparison to the day-to-day struggle of an ALS patient. Your mind is a prisoner of what's happening to your body.” In golf, you're playing against yourself and in a way, that's ALS. "For us to go out and play 100 holes is intended to be a metaphor for how far we have to in this fight against ALS. "I think golf is the closest reflection of any sport to life and its ups and downs," Sullivan said. But they won't be worrying about their scores at Onion Creek - just the cause. Litt is a 5 handicap and Sullivan is scratch. Sullivan is a member at Onion Creek, the historic Austin course that was the site for the inaugural Legends of Golf tournament in 1980, the two-man team event that has been credited for the launching of the PGA Tour Champions. where Sullivan became even more passionate about golf while caddying. Sullivan's father, who ran the famed McMullen's restaurant in New York in the 1970s and 1980s, also introduced him to the game at the Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, N.J. "Palm Valley was where I fell in love with the game," said Litt, who grew up in Mandarin and went on to captain the Stanton golf team and play soccer for the Blue Devils. Litt's family are members of the Sawgrass Country Club but he first learned to play the game at the Palm Valley nine-hole course. They never met until they were both working in New York and found themselves in the same circle of friends who enjoyed happy hours, lunches and golf when they weren't climbing the ladder on their respective business ventures. Litt graduated from Vanderbilt and Sullivan from The Wharton School at Penn. "It's a pretty small, cruel world for those of us who have relatives with ALS," Sullivan said. And Eric Sedransk, who founded Member for a Day, has been one of the driving forces behind the project since his father also passed away from ALS.
Golf created a lasting bondīefore they hit their first shot, they will have raised more than $160,000 after setting a more modest goal of $25,000. The site also enables people to use it as a platform for other fundraising ventures and there's a link for anyone who wants to pledge amounts per hole for Litt and Sullivan. They're already gotten a substantial head start, thanks to " Member for a Day," a website that auctions off rounds of golf for charity at private and high-end resort courses that have been donated by those facilities or their members.
Litt, a Stanton graduate and a partner at a private equity fund, and Sullivan, who is from Austin and founder of Health Hospitality Partners, will tee off at daybreak on June 19 - the day after Father's Day - at Onion Creek for their "100 Hole Challenge to Beat ALS."Ĭarrying their own bags at the start (friends and family will share the caddying duties as the day wears on), the two will walk every step of what is the equivalent of five and one-half rounds of golf, their way of bringing attention to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord which still has no cure. Making the hot-100: Golf Digest's Top 100 golf courses in America includes a Northeast Florida favorite It's a rare wrap: Good weather nationwide insures U.S.
PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger: What we know about the controversial agreement no one saw coming Their motivation likely will be strong enough to get them through what promises to be a 16-hour day: while they walk 100 holes of golf in the Texas summer heat and humidity, Litt and Sullivan will be holding their fathers' love in their hearts and know that for every step, every shot and every hole, they will be helping raise money and awareness about the devastating disease that claimed Sullivan's father John 14 years ago and has left Litt's father, long-time Baptist Health cardiologist Marc Litt, wheelchair-bound. "We're training the best we can," said Litt, a 35-year-old Stanton graduate and Jacksonville native. Alex Litt and Cory Sullivan have been trying to get into better physical shape for their long walk next week at the Onion Creek Golf Club in Austin, Texas.
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