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Woody Durham Returning to RCS Classic By: Addison Penfield 4/03/09
ASHEBORO---Woody Durham may very well feel as if he has some R&R coming after an extended season of college basketball broadcasting at home and on the road with Coach Roy Williams and the University of North Carolina Tar Heels.
Durham has been the “Voice of the Tar Heels” and his name has been virtually synonymous with UNC athletics for many a season. The team to which he loaned his play-by-play talents on radio this year long will be remembered.
Now, as has been his pleasure for almost all of the past 16 years, Woody Durham will enjoy a bit of well-earned R&R by coming to Asheboro to lend his name to the annual golf fundraiser staged by Regional Consolidated Services (RCS). The popular sportscaster will tee it up at the Pinewood Country Club Friday, May 15, in the Add Penfield/RCS Golf Classic.
Durham played in the first RCS tournament in a 16-year series in 1993. Since then, he has missed but one of the 18-hole, captain’s choice events, proceeds of which go directly to the nonprofit agency’s operating fund, bolstering human service programs in Randolph county and 10 other counties of Piedmont North Carolina. Durham was an absentee the year he took his broadcaster sons on an overseas excursion..to play golf.
RCS has recognized Durham’s long-standing support of the Classic. He is the tournament’s honorary chairman whose team traditionally begins its round on the first tee in the shotgun start. Traditionally, he is paired with his longtime friend. Bill Hoover, the local bank executive now in retirement.
At the 2008 Classic, Durham was honored as the eighth recipient of the annual “Service to Golf" plaque given by RCS in recognition of an individual's dedication to The Game and to the tournament. Woody is a member of the N. C. Sports Hall of Fame.
The Classic is open to men and women golfers at all talent levels. The individual entry fee is $75, $300 for a foursome. For information, call 336-629-5141 |
