EVERETT – The 10th annual Joe Richer Golf Tournament is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. today at the Legion Memorial Golf Course. Nearly 500 people have registered to participate.
Registration is now closed.
The tournament was started to raise funds to help underprivileged children take up the sport of golf. Money from the tournament helps to fund the Joe Richer Jr. Golf Club.
The golf club conducts clinics, practice sessions and events for its young members.
Richer, who passed away at age 55, believed lack of money shouldn’t stand in the way of learning and enjoying the sport of golf, said Lou Stevenson.
Stevenson, a recreation coordinator with Everett Parks and Recreation, was a close friend of Richer’s.
“It’s all intended to just be another way to support junior golfers,” he said of the tournament. “Joe was an unbelievable guy.”
Richer coached golf and basketball at Everett High School for three decades.
Golfer Madalitso Muthiya will play in the tournament today. In 2006, Muthiya became the first Zambian and black African to play in a U.S. Open tournament.
Muthiya’s ties to the area are through former Edmond’s resident Jayme Roth. Roth met Muthiya in 1998 while on a business trip to Zambia, and is now Muthiya’s guardian.
“He’s just a tremendous young man,” Roth said. “He’s committed to just take his career as far as he can.”
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