I feel like a good 10-15% of my posting history here on the refuge is just running the threads for the Texas Cup raffle. And here we are again for 2025!
This is our FIFTH year to have a team from each of Houston, Dallas, and Austin+SanAntonio play each other in a two-day, three-round ryder cup format. This years event isMarch 28th-30th, 2025, and we’re still loving the instagram life at Pine Dunes Golf Club in Frankston, TX. We’ll do the Raffle live here on the refuge on Wednesday, March 26th.
By virtue of taking the trophy home last year (not to mention the three years prior to that also), the Austin/San Antonio team retains the charity choice. The 2025 NLU Texas Cup this year will again benefit Wonders and Worries , which provides counseling and therapy services for the families, especially the children, for folks afflicted with cancer and other medical challenges. Houston STROHs member @jsavoie88 has been on the board for more than a year, and the organization is doing amazing things.
Previous years raffles have had more depth of items, but this year we have, without a doubt, the best quality of donations at the top of the stack. Including a two-night stay at a Pinehurst condo, and two all-inclusive tickets to a Houston Dynamo game (and donations keep rolling in, so check back!)
RAFFLE DETAILS
- Everyone can play in the raffle! If you buy a ticket, you could win, you just have to be on the thread on the 26th to claim your prize should your number be drawn! You do not have to be playing in the event to be in the raffle!
- We will be holding a charity raffle on WEDNESDAY, March 26th, at 8 PM Central right here on the Refuge in this thread.
- Raffle tickets will be $5 each. You can buy an unlimited amount of tickets (see below for process).
- Winning ticket numbers will be drawn through an online randomizer and results posted in the thread.
- Winner picks their item. Once it’s selected, the item is gone. If you are not present, you get moved to end of line or can show up and pick. You can also have someone pick for you by proxy (like, text them or something). It just has to be posted on the thread, for record-keeping.
- Since you get your pick, you can only win once. Shares the wealth and keeps everyone invested. (edit - organizers reserve the right to let people win multiple times if we have more items than we do people purchasing tickets)
DONATIONS STILL ACCEPTED
- We are still accepting items for the raffle. If you have some golf (or non golf) adjacent items to donate, please DM me!
HOW TO BUY TICKETS?
- Open this spreadsheet and mark down the number of tickets you want.
- Send me the money on Venmo - my handle is at the top of the tickets tab
- I will confirm receipt of the money, and update the sheet accordingly.
- Tickets can be purchased up until 7:30 pm central time on Wednesday, March 26th.
I would really love to see us sell enough tickets to cover the retail value of the donated items; right now, that’s ~$2600. At $5 a ticket, our goal is 520 tickets. You can do it - let’s pump up these numbers to help families in need.
Tagging the captains from each city in case they have anything they’d like to add - @Insulin_And_Bogeys (Dallas), @FishNChips12 (Houston).
