Each year, members of the Golf Monthly Forum and their guests meet up to enjoy playing a top-notch course at the same time as raising funds and awareness for Help For Heroes. Dating back to 2010, this has since evolved into an eagerly-anticipated win-win tradition where the beneficiaries are both those taking part, and this most worthy of charities. Along with plenty of regular attendees, there are always a few new faces, and the funds raised are both needed and greatly appreciated.
From Small Acorns
The very first Help For Heroes day was staged at Luton Hoo in Bedfordshire and was organised by Rick Garg with an initially modest field of fewer than 10 members of the Forum. Happily, this was supplemented by a healthy turn-out from Rick’s own club, Aldwickbury Park, taking the number to around 40. The day raised a very healthy £2,200, and the event was staged at the same venue the following year, 2011. This time it attracted a larger field with more forum members at the same time as raising an even more impressive £6,500.
The twelfth hole at Aldwickbury Park, host of the first two Help For Heroes Forum events
(Image credit: Rob Smith)
Having served in the RAF, Rick was a passionate supporter of Help For Heroes as well as a very keen golfer. His hopes for founding the day were wide-ranging; to raise awareness for the charity, which itself only started in 2007, to generate funds via donations, to make the charity day a permanent fixture on the Golf Monthly Forum calendar, and for all those on the forum to make new friendships that might last a lifetime. This he did in spades, though tragically he died suddenly from a heart attack in 2016 while on the course at the club he had joined and come to love, the Centurion Club in Hertfordshire.
Selfless: Richard Hart is the annual event’s main organiser
(Image credit: Kevin Murray)
Current organiser Richard Hart became involved in 2012 when the day was staged at the club where he is a member, Blackmoor, a very popular venue with a fine course in the Golf Monthly Next 100. It was around that time that the then Golf Monthly editor Michael Harris came on board and the team was now in place. Suddenly, the number of forummers who wanted to play really took off and there were 80 golfers raising a brilliant £11,500. Richard’s aims are “to get golfers from all over the UK to meet up with friends, play top courses and raise significant amounts of money for Help For Heroes. This is money that really does make a…
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