Event Details:
Friday, March 3, 2023
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Headliners Club
221 W. 6th St., 21st Floor
Austin, TX 78701
Our 3rd annual fundraiser will again be held at the Headliners Club in Austin. The evening includes an elegant seated dinner and storytelling from the fairways by Verne Lundquist and golfer, broadcaster and author Gary McCord. Underwriters and VIP ticket holders have the added benefit of enjoying a private cocktail reception with Verne, Gary and other celebrity guests prior to the event.
Sponsorship packages range from $2,750 - $10,000. Click here for details.
VIP ticket price is $650 per person. General Admission tickets are $275 per person. All tickets include seated dinner.
Questions? Contact aunger@headlinersfoundation.org or call the Foundation office at (512) 445-4520.
Photo credit: Stan Badz
Gary McCord
As a member of the CBS golf broadcast team until 2019, Gary McCord’s lighthearted approach to calling the game made him a fan favorite. McCord used his wry humor and irreverence to carve out a successful broadcasting career with CBS Sports for 33 years. He currently co-hosts a weekly program on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio called “The Dry Heave” with former CBS colleague David Feherty.
Before picking up a microphone, McCord was an accomplished golfer. A two-time All-American at the University of California-Riverside, he won the NCAA Division II individual golf championship in 1970. He went on to a professional career, competing in more than 400 PGA Tour events and winning two PGA Tour Champions tournaments.
McCord has also written several books, including Just a Range Ball in a Box of Titleists and Golf for Dummies. In 1996, he appeared as himself in the Kevin Costner movie Tin Cup, a film he says is based on his life. He and fellow former CBS commentator Peter Kostis are partners in the Kostis/McCord Learning Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. McCord formerly served as a co-announcer on the EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour series along with David Feherty.
Verne Lundquist
Lundquist, a longtime Headliners Club member, has been at the center of covering major sporting events for more than 50 years. He began his career at KTBC-TV in Austin, then owned by Lady Bird and President Lyndon Baines Johnson. He was also the long-time voice of the Dallas Cowboys. Lundquist joined CBS Sports in 1982 and broadcast more than 20 sports for the network, including national and international coverage of football, basketball, Olympic figure skating, and golf. He retired from covering SEC football in 2016 and continues to cover the Master’s and other golf tournaments for the network.
Tim Schmitt
Tim Schmitt has spent decades in various newsrooms — some print and some broadcast. He’s worked as a reporter, columnist, sports editor, opinion page and managing editor staffer at the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff, the Mesa Tribune, the Arizona Republic and the Niagara Falls Gazette, where he was executive sports editor — spearheading coverage of the Buffalo Bills and Sabres.
He also worked as a weekend sports anchor and reporter at Buffalo’s ABC-TV affiliate, WKBW, and hosted a political talk show on WLVL-AM.
Tim moved to Austin and became the GateHouse Media West Region editor, and has been the managing editor of Golfweek and the Golf Coordinator for the USA Today Network for three years.
Tim lives in the shadow of Dell Diamond in Round Rock with his wife, Dawn, and daughter, Norah.
Ed Clements, Emcee
Austin radio personality Ed Clements is a member of the Headliners Club and has served on the Headliners Foundation’s Verne Lundquist Sports Media Institute Committee since 2018. He was the Emcee for the Institute’s inaugural fundraising event in 2019, An Evening with Verne Lundquist. Clements has spent more than 30 years as a talk show host at KLBJ-AM in Austin. He is also the host for “Crenshaw on Golf” on SIRIUS-XM PGA Tour Radio. Clements is the starter for the Dell Technologies Match Play Tournament and was honored in 2018 by the Southern Texas PGA and the First Tee of Greater Austin for his contributions to the sport of golf. He is currently on the Boards of Texas Alzheimer’s, United Heritage Charity Foundation, the ARC of the Capital Area, and the Save Muny Conservancy.
SPONSORS
ACE UNDERWRITER - $10,000
John Robinson and Sharon Schweitzer
EAGLE UNDERWRITER - $5,500
Ellen and Mark Morrison
BIRDIE UNDERWRITER - $2,750
Patti and Curtis Ohlendorf
Terry Tottenham and Jerry Bell
