2025 Scholarship Application
The Holes Fore Hope mission is to provide financial resources for education in the Golf and Country Club community in Minnesota. The 2025 application will be available to fill out starting on April 15th, 2025.
Applications are due June 2nd, 2025. Application for both Employees and Children of Employees below.(Recipients may be awarded the scholarship a maximum of two times)
SAVE THE DATE! Scholarship Winners will receive award on August 5th, 2025, at the 6th Annual York Solutions Scholarship Breakfast (Attendance Required for Winners)
2025 Spirit of the Game Nomination
In 2024, Holes Fore Hope proudly presented the inaugural “Spirit of the Game” award. Jane MacKenzie was a clear and deserving inaugural award recipient—her impact on Minnesota golf spans over 40 years and includes contributions to the MGA, PGA, Fairway Foundation, women's events, the Trans-Miss tournament, and more.
This year, we look forward to announcing our second recipient at the 2025 Scholarship Breakfast. To help guide this year’s selection, we’ve established a set of award criteria and are inviting members of our community to submit nominations. Please use the form below to nominate an individual for the 2025 “Spirit of the Game” award—someone who exemplifies dedication to the sport and has made a lasting impact on golf in Minnesota. help guide this year’s selection, we’ve established a set of award criteria and are inviting members of our community to submit nominations. Please use the form below to nominate an individual for the 2025 “Spirit of the Game” award—someone who exemplifies dedication to the sport and has made a lasting impact on golf in Minnesota. help guide this year’s selection, we’ve established a set of award criteria and are inviting members of our community to submit nominations. Please use the form below to nominate an individual for the 2025 “Spirit of the Game” award—someone who exemplifies dedication to the sport and has made a lasting impact on golf in Minnesota.
Nomination Deadline: June 16th, 2025
2024 Live Auction
(Dec. 6th - Dec. 20th)
Every year we do a live auction to support the future growth of the mission...Since our inception in 2019 we've donated close to $150K in scholarship and benevolence requests. This auction is the cornerstone of our fundraising efforts.
The Holes Fore Hope mission is to provide financial resources for education scholarships and benevolence requests in the Golf and Country Club community in Minnesota.
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3 on 3 TournamentSeptember 15, 2025
2024 Events
2024 Holes Fore Hope Scholarship Breakfast
Hosted by Edina Country Club. August 6th, 2024
2024 Holes Fore Hope 3 x 3 Tournament
September 16th, 2024. At The Minikahda Club
Our Mission.
Holes Fore Hope mission is to provide financial resources for education scholarships and benevolence requests in the Golf and Country Club community in Minnesota.
Holes Fore Hope was formed as a tribute to assist Golf and Country Club management professionals (or their dependents) who incur overwhelming expenses due to medical hardship without comprehensive insurance or adequate financial resources. Holes Fore Hope is unique in its approach to philanthropy because of its focus on the most important asset in the club business its “employees.”
Holes Fore Hope members are grounded in the belief that the game of golf has given them more than they can give back to the game. In the spirit of gratitude and grace they are committed to investing in those who’ve made a career in the business.
Our History.
Holes Fore Hope started on cold, winter night in December 2018 over a few cold pints at a bar popular with golfers in Minnesota. Seven good friends, all with a passion for golf and fortunate enough to play at private clubs in Minnesota, reminisced over another great golf season that had come to an end here in the northland. As the pints flowed, they collectively realized how lucky we were to have such a great golf experience here in Minnesota. They all agreed that the quality of Golf and overall Country Club experience was driven in large part by hard working, dedicated club employees. The group decided that night that it was time to create an organization dedicated to serving the private Golf and Country Club employees in Minnesota.
So lo and behold this team of dedicated volunteers went to work leveraging their network of golfing buddies, business associates, friends, and family to share the spirit of the mission. After 9 months of planning and sharing their vision to create an inclusive golf experience in Minnesota they hosted the first ever Holes Fore Hope fundraiser on October 3, 2019.
The night was a memorable one and a smashing success. PGA Tour stars Tim Herron and Rocco Mediate hosted a fireside chat for the guests and shared behind the scene experiences from both the PGA and the Champions tour. The room was overflowing with laughter, gratitude, love for the game of golf, and pure passion for the foundation and its mission. We raised $80,000 dollars to kickstart the foundation and start the beginning of what will be decades of legacy giving in both benevolence and scholarship requests.
