The tournament version "Mariano Rivera Celebrity Golf Benefit" 2022, was held at the Golf Wykagyl Country Club, on May 24, with this sporting event featuring the participation of Major League Baseball celebrities, personalities and friends of Rivera, who took advantage of this opportunity to share and demonstrate their skills following the modality.
This sporting fair that was carried out by applying the rules of the Wykagyl Country Club Golf Club, in New Rochelle, NY, had the participation of more than 100 amateur golf players, who made up a total of 25 teams, made up of 4 people each. one.
Among them Bernie Williams, Joe Torre, CC Sabathia, Alfonso Soriano, Cecil Fielder, Chris Jones, Hideki Matsui, Andy Pettite, David Cone, among other MLB figures.
Mariano Rivera, highlighted that “this year, the celebration of our IV Golf Tournament was framed as the most successful.
The Panamanian closer, who played for 19 seasons in the Major Leagues, earning his World Series rings with the New York Yankees in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2009, and the only one in the history of MLB players in the unanimously inducted into the Hall of Fame, pointed out that the funds obtained from this IV golf tournament will be used for the construction of a center "last generation" of 40,000 square feet to provide guidance and resources to underserved minority students.
He says that it is a social responsibility that our Mariano Rivera Foundation develops to protect these students whose parents are still working when they leave school.
“We are pleased to once again celebrate this event to which more players join each year, especially MLB teammates, friends and associates of our Foundation.
The culmination of the support we receive will make a life-changing difference for thousands of children and youth in New Rochelle, NY. We are impressed by the extraordinary support of our friends, sponsors and supporters of our mission.
For this event, one of the largest collaborations was made by SOMOS Community Care, an institution made up of a group of doctors concerned about the health of our community that recognizes the importance of hospitals, but with the mission of preventing patients from going to these hospitals.
The renowned Dominican doctor Ramón Tallaj, is the president of the Board of Directors of SOMOS Community Care, gave importance to a day of this magnitude, congratulating Rivera for his actions in the community.