IJGT Partners with Bunkers in Baghdad for Golf Ball Donations

IJGT Organizing Golf Ball Donation to Troops

IJGT Majors and Hilton Head Area Courses to serve as Drop-Off Locations

The International Junior Golf Tour is proud to announce a partnership with Bunkers in Baghdad and Bridgestone Golf to collect golf balls for U.S. Armed Forces serving overseas.

Bunkers in Baghdad is a non-profit that gathers and delivers golf balls, clubs and equipment to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"Bunkers in Baghdad is looking forward to working with America’s up-and-coming golfers on the International Junior Golf Tour,” says Joseph Hanna, President and Founder of Bunkers in Baghdad, Inc. “We’re proud to say young people have played a significant role in helping our organization collect and ship more than 2.4 million golf balls and 50,000 golf clubs to our soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and 11 other countries as well as wounded warriors in all 50 states." 

The IJGT will donate balls collected during events on Hilton Head Island at Hilton Head Lakes (Oct.14-16); Oyster Reef Golf Club (Oct.28-30), Port Royal Golf Club (Nov.11-13) and Temecula Creek Inn Golf Course (Dec 10-11). Bridgestone Golf, the No.1 ball fitter in golf and official IJGT partner, will donate a dozen new golf balls for every 100 collected.

“It is an honor to partner with Bunkers in Baghdad and Bridgestone Golf to support our troops,” says Peter Orrell, President and CEO of Junior Sports Corporation, owner/operator of the IJGT. “This initiative is only a small token of our appreciation for what service members do to protect our country each day.”

“We appreciate the IJGT coming to us with such a great idea and happy to participate in a small way,” says Dan Murphy, Vice President of Marketing for Bridgestone Golf. “We hope the balls sent overseas to our troops provide a level of recreation and an opportunity for fun during their important missions.”

If you would like to donate your used golf balls, please bring them to one of the IJGT Majors, a local Hilton Head Area collection site, and/or the IJGT Offices on Hilton Head Island.  We can also arrange shipment and logistics with Bunkers in Baghdad if you are not able to deliver your donation.

For more information about the IJGT or to donate golf balls: www.IJGT.com, info@IJGT.com, 800.792.9143.