As the years went on, I grew more and more in love with this annual golf tournament. I loved getting everyone together, creating memories, and having fun pretending any of us were any good at this golf thing. I slowly started getting more involved in the tournament, until one day, I had this great idea while having a drink at the bar.

Back in early 2018, my now husband and one of our best friends were sitting at the bar, per usual, for an after-work drink. We were talking about how much we loved the idea of the annual tournament the guys had been putting together because it was more FUN than all the other tournaments out there. Just friends from the bar getting together and having fun, not caring too seriously about the game, just down for a good time. I was also looking for an outlet to build something meaningful at the time. I hadn't started my company even, and I wanted to help grow something and be able to give back to charity. I didn't really know how I wanted to do that yet, and I had something just click in my head that night. I wanted to build a charity golf tournament of my own, the way I wanted to build it.

After a few after work drinks, and a few bar hops later, I couldn't drop the idea. I kept talking about a charity golf tournament to everyone that night, focused on having fun and raising money for charity. I think we even decided on the name that night, Swing Your Wood. It made us laugh, it was perfect. The shots were coming, and thanks to that liquid courage, I posted to Facebook that I was hosting a golf tournament, even put a date out into the world. And then I continued to have some drinks with friends and forgot about the post. 

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Until the next day. I woke up with a ton of those little red notification buttons on my phone. Oh no, what did I post to Facebook?! I quickly opened my phone remembering I had suggested the tournament idea and got nervous of the response I was about to see.

I was completely shocked. Such an outpour of support surrounding the idea. Everyone was IN! And then, just as quickly as my head started to hurt with a slight hangover, panic mode kicked in. I had never hosted a golf tournament before and I had no idea what I had got myself into.

Looking back on those moments, to this day, make me laugh. I still have no idea what I've gotten myself into, but I'm pretty pumped that you're here and down for the ride! Whatever this turns into, we'll always focus on having fun and supporting charity, and that's all we really care about.

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