Golfers Against Cancer

Golfers Against Cancer (GAC) is a remarkable charitable organization organized in the summer of 1997 by Bobby Jones and golf buddies Everette Bernal, Rod Felts, and other Saturday morning players on the Deerwood course at The Clubs of Kingwood. A prominent member of that dedicated gang is Stehlin Foundation trustee (and pancreatic cancer survivor) Gordon Findlay.

GAC’s first golf tournament generated $80,000, and the GAC Board selected the research programs at CHRISTUS Stehlin Foundation as the beneficiary. To date, GAC golfing events and dinners have raised more than $22 million and funded more than 100 projects at leading cancer institutions around the nation. GAC and its members remain major contributors to Foundation research.

Drive for Show, Putt for Cancer Research

Though the organization holds events throughout the U.S. and internationally, its original Houston golf tournament has become one of the nation’s largest. Taking place simultaneously on five courses on the Monday before Thanksgiving, tournament participants now include LPGA and Texas PGA professionals.

For more information on GAC and its charity tournaments, please visit the organization’s webpage. In addition to Houston Golf and Gala, other GAC Texas events take place in Dallas and at Walden on Lake Conroe. CHRISTUS Stehlin Foundation thanks GAC for its dedication to cancer research and its long time support of Foundation programs.