McGregor Hall Performing Arts Center is raising the curtain on another event next month – its inaugural golf tournament fundraiser.
Victoria Huggins, Miss North Carolina 2017, has trod the boards at McGregor Hall on several occasions. She was Belle in 2018 and Ariel last year in productions of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid.
But this year, she’s taking to the fairways and greens of Henderson Country Club and she invites the community to do the same.
“I miss y’all so much!” she exclaimed during Thursday’s TownTalk. “I’m so excited to be headed back to Henderson – and I need your help!”
The tournament will take place Friday, Sept. 15. Participants will gather at 8 a.m. and there will be a 9 a.m. shotgun start.
As marketing coordinator, Huggins is one of McGregor Hall’s staunchest supporters. She helps the 501c3 with its social media campaign and has taken on the role as golf tournament organizer.
“It’s no secret that I love McGregor Hall,” Huggins said. And she said she loves the game of golf, so a tournament fundraiser was a good match.
She’s looking for hole sponsors – she had three as of Thursday morning, so there’s an opportunity for 15 more (13 actually, because WIZS is going to take a hole on the front 9 and a hole on the back 9).
Hole sponsorships are $100; register teams of 4 for $400.
Huggins is shooting to have a minimum of 18 teams participate in the tournament. Sign up at www.mcgregorhall.org/golftournament.
There are four ways to support the McGregor Hall golf tournament: be a hole sponsor, register to play or sponsor a team, volunteer and provide branded swag for the golfers’ goodie bags.
Email Huggins at media@mcgregorhall.org to get more information.
Sponsors can be business owners, of course, but sponsors also can honor someone they know who has been in a show at McGregor Hall, she said.
McGregor Hall is a special place for the Henderson community and beyond, Huggins said. Besides being an economic catalyst, she said it’s a place that also gives young people their first taste of theater and performing arts.
For those reasons, and more, Huggins said she is excited to be able to give back to a place that has given her – and the community – so much joy.
“When we come together for a cause, we not only show up but we show off,” she said.
