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BallenIsles Country Club Leaders

Play 260 Holes Of Golf, Raise $20,000

For The First Tee Of The Palm Beaches

BallenIsles Country Club General Manager and Chief
Executive Officer Ryan Walls and Director of Golf Jeff
Fitzherbert played a combined 260 holes of golf on Tuesday,
Sept. 6 to raise funds for the First Tee of the Palm Beaches.
Walls and Fitzherbert were participating in the Seventh
Annual 100 Hole Challenge Golf Marathon held at Jupiter
Country Club and raised more than $20,000 for the First Tee
of the Palm Beaches through BallenIsles’ member donations
and pledges. In 2021, the duo raised more than $17,500 for
the First Tee of the Palm Beaches, playing a combined 216
holes of golf, and in 2020, they raised $15,000.
For this year’s 100 Hole Challenge, Walls and Fitzherbert
played 130 holes each, over eight hours.
“We had a lot of fun this year on a nice sunny day, so we
decided to go for our holes played record and completed a
total of 130 holes each, for our all-time best of 260 combined.
We think we got our summer golf in,” said Walls. “Many those who guide the First Tee of the Palm Beaches, a program PGA of America agreement expired in 1973, the club was
thanks to the organizers of this great event and especially both Jeff and I are real believers in, as are our members who renamed the JDM Country Club for John D. MacArthur. For
provide wonderful support each year. Much appreciation, as the next 15 years, the prestigious local country club hosted
well, to the members and staff from Jupiter Country Club many celebrities and professional golfers and staged many
for making the course available to us for the day.” events on the three golf courses on the property. In 1988,
For more information on the First Tee of the Palm the three golf courses and surrounding property were sold
Beaches and their 100 Hole Challenge Golf Marathon, by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
visit www.firstteefloridagoldcoast.org/palm-beaches. For and renamed BallenIsles Country Club. A multiyear and
more information on BallenIsles Country Club, visit www. multimillion dollar plan to develop a private country club
BallenIsles.org. community was unveiled. Since the early 2000s, BallenIsles
About BallenIsles Country Club Country Club has been consistently ranked as one of the Top
In 1964 legendary Florida developer John D. MacArthur 100 Clubs in America.
and the PGA of America teamed up with golf course architects A $35 million clubhouse renovation was completed in
Dick Wilson and Joe Lee to design a championship-caliber November 2018, featuring 115,000 square feet of luxurious
golf facility. Over the next 10 years, BallenIsles, then space; three championship courses with 54 holes of golf; a
called PGA National Golf Club, hosted numerous major world-class 21-court tennis complex including an exhibition
tournaments like the PGA Championship and PGA Seniors tennis court and nine pickleball courts; and a state-of-the-
Championship and was home for the Professional Golfers’ art sports complex with a full-service Cosmo & Company
Association of America. The club was also the host site for salon and spa, fitness center, Pilates and spin studios and
the original PGA TOUR Qualifying School and held the resort-style swimming pool.
Jeff Fitzherbert and Ryan Walls inaugural PGA Merchandise Show. When the MacArthur/ For more information visit www.BallenIsles.org.

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