FROST LEADS $250,000 FUND RAISER
Lamson Group CEO, Rodney Frost has led a group of golfers aiming to raise $250,000 for cancer research, by playing golf for 24 hours non-stop at his local club, and by producing a how-to guide for other clubs to follow in their own efforts.
Thirteen groups of players teed off at 7.30am, and played through the night without break, finishing their mammoth round the same time the following morning.
The event is called One Day, and all donations go to Love Your Sister, a charity created by Gold Logie winner Sam Johnson and his sister, Connie. Love Your Sister is dedicated to ensuring precision cancer treatment for all cancer patients, regardless of location, age, income or status.
Frost was inspired to establish the challenge following a personal tragedy. He said, “Last year my family lost three loved ones to cancer, including my sister-in-law. A close mate had also recently died of cancer, so friends and I decided to launch a fund-raising event in all their memories.” Players in the inaugural One Day event last year raised more than $100,000.
This year Castle Hill Country Club again hosted the event, with double the number of players, triple the quantity of temporary lighting towers, and a special guest, Sam Johnson, who told the players every dollar raised would be spent on precision medicine for cancer patients.
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“As it ought,” said Johnson. “I promised my sister, I promise you, we do not touch a dollar of the funds raised – it goes through Love Your Sister to key programmes supporting precision medicine. The genomic revolution is upon us, and genomic sequencing allows doctors to put cancer patients on the most appropriate treatment the first time, every time.”
Windsor Golf Club also staged its own One Day event. Similar events have been planned for other golf clubs around the country, and Frost’s team has developed a guide to help clubs create their own One Day programs.
One Day 2025 is slated for 28 October next year, again at Castle Hill Country Club, and Frost has an even bigger ambition: “I think we can raise $500,000 with the support of the Hills community.”