Golf charities are the backbone of many organizations, particularly at the local level. Most all casual golfers have been involved in tournaments that help a variety of causes, and those are very good events to support.
 
On the regional and national level, golf helps raise billions of dollars in the United States, and more around the world each year. So what if you were the CEO of professional golf tour and found yourself in need of research that could save your own life, as well as others?  What would you do? 

There is a man in Virginia who has been pondering that same question. His name is Dennis Baca, President, and CEO of the Tournament Golf Association of America (TGAA). Competitive golf has been his passion for the past 12 years, running the association part time.  He was looking forward to a well-deserved retirement as Environmental Policy Manager for the United States Postal Service (USPS). 

In fact, you have Mr. Baca and his team to thank in part, for managing the cleanup after the anthrax scare in 2001. 

When he retired in 2008, Dennis Baca looked forward to putting his career in the rear view mirror and plowing full time into his passion. The TGAA Tour. However, his world took a turn he had not planned in 2005, when he found out he had Multiple Myeloma. 

Multiple Myeloma is a form of (currently) incurable, but treatable, cancer of plasma cells that afflicted over 56,000 people in this country when Mr. Baca became diagnosed. 

As those close to him at USPS learned about his character back in 2001, Dennis is not one to shy away from big problems. He helps solve problems for his employer, his fellow citizens, and his country. In June 2008, the TGAA Tour unveiled the ‘Birdies for a Cure’ campaign to raise money for the research of Multiple Myeloma at Johns Hopkins led by Dr. Ivan Borrello, himself, a leading cancer researcher in Multiple Myeloma. 

The charity benefits Johns Hopkins, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Ercole Comini Charity for Multiple Myeloma Research, founded by Mr. Baca in memory of his late grandfather Ercole Comini, who died from the disease. 

This charity is targeting 100% of all contributions and donations to go towards Dr. Borrello’s research study at Johns Hopkins. The TGAA set this up so that donations are tax-deductible. 

The real difference in this story is that actual research, based on Mr. Baca’s response to treatment (which was unprecedented), may hold a key to unlocking the cure for this particular pernicious type of cancer. 

In speaking with Dennis recently, whom I met last year while calling on golf tournament companies to get feedback on our product, I became overwhelmed by his positive outlook on life, golf, and those who seek to make a difference. 

Baca has plans to take his professional net tournament golf tour to the next level, and he has strong feelings for golf, or, as he puts it, “I want to leave golf a better game than when I found it before I go”. 

If past performance in leaving the United States a safer place to live in the face of terrorism is any indication, my money is on Dennis Baca! 

To learn more about the Tournament Golf Association of America, and this worthwhile charity, please visit www.tgaatour.com and consider making a donation.

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