It’s Scott here at Ben Kruse 18 Fore Life Foundation. We hope you will enjoy all of the announcements and information as we approach another golf event. Make plans to join us on June 5th for what is sure to be a special evening. Tickets are onsale (less than 75 available) here – Purchase Tickets Here

Thanks for supporting the cause as we push towards $5 MILLION sent out since 2000.

Sincerely,
Scott Kruse

Transcript:
Hey, everybody, it’s Scott with 18 FORE Life. We’re two weeks away from the big weekend. June 5th and 6th is the Ben Kruse 18 FORE Life charity golf event. Very excited. I’m going to start in reverse order. I got a lot of things to go over, but I want to show you. Next week we will have a live auction that begins, and we’ve got a lot of cool items that will pop up on there, Businesses, folks, if you’ve got something you would like to donate. Send it our way. We’ll put it on the live auction. That auction will end the weekend of the event. We’ll give more details of that. But probably the coolest item that we’re going to auction off is on June 7th. The Cardinals play the Cincinnati Reds, and Chris Berman is auctioning off two tickets to join him in his suite. All inclusive drink, food included. And so that item in itself would be just an experience that that you gotta you got a bid on. I want to show you some other things. We’ve got some really cool items. This is authenticated. I guess you would say. This Pete Rose jersey, just a really cool jersey on the front. It’s actually says Hit King, but it’s signed. And with him passing away, we thought, we need to do something. Get our hands on some Pete Rose stuff. We’ve got a cool little item here. Roger Worley, Kellen Winslow, two Mizzou Legends that’s signed and authenticated. So excited about that. We’ve got this collector’s edition of Albert Pujols. If there’s any big fans out there, just a wonderful painting. My friend Terry Hester did just did a great job and we decided to frame one of those. Give that away. We’ve got Chris Berman himself, the grid father. It’s signed. It says “you could go all the way.” Signed by Chris Berman. It’s a cool poster, kind of a movie looking poster. This one I couldn’t I couldn’t pass up. Get my hands on this. You got Magic and Larry Bird signed print with Magic wearing a Boston Celtics t shirt. So so cool. Got their patches included in this. I just feel like this is a really cool item. And then finally, one of a kind, Katie Coleman did this print of Amen Corner for for all the golf fans out there, it is just absolutely beautiful. Needs to go on an office wall or something. But that’s kind of the start. We’ve got a few other things. Like I said, the tickets from from Chris himself is is just a really cool thing that someone can win. So June 5th is our banquet, guys. Tickets are on sale at 18 FORE Life. There’s about 75, maybe a few less than that remaining. So you got to understand. Don’t wait around on this. I don’t. I’ve always wanted. We always love that it sells out. But it gets to a point where I don’t like that people might get left out, but we only hold so many people in the Elk’s because this is a big event. Please go to the website. Get your tickets now. Let’s sell the thing out quickly and let it be done. And we look forward to seeing everybody there. We’ve got Chris Berman, legend. Not just a legend, but an icon. We’ve got Kelly Owens, who I can’t wait to hear her story and her testimony. She’s just amazing. If you if you know her, you know exactly what I’m saying. We got Coach Jim Hall giving the toast to Ben. He he he he was sick last year and really couldn’t pull this off. We tried to do it through a little audio thing, but he’s there in person. He’s doing really great. And it’s just going to be a real honor to to get to have him up there telling a couple stories about my brother, great food at the Elks, great program, and then just great fellowship. Just a wonderful time. A lot of smiles, a lot of hugs, and just a good feeling in that room. Please join us and experience this if you never have. So we got golf. The gospel. There’s like three teams on the waiting list for the afternoon, but I don’t see anything budging there. It looks like everyone, almost all the teams have have sent in everything, just like I ask, and we are just about ready to close the door on all of that. And but it is a full tournament. We look forward to that. We’re going to pray for great weather. Again, the auction is going to begin next week, so we’ll have that and kind of push that. If you guys know of anyone that would want to donate an item. Last year we had a car donated. I mean, kind of crazy, but Mike Gibson actually donated a GTO and we raffled it off. Not quite looking for that unless, you know, it’s out there, we’d obviously we would tackle that again, but just items, baskets, anything cool that just makes this fun makes it a chance for someone to bid on something and win it. Maybe it gets your business out there. Maybe it gets your business name out there. We would love that type of support. Again, we just thank you all for for everything. We thank you for the supporting us like you have all these years. I feel like we’re just a community of people that that have found some way to help those that are in need. And, you know, it’s 2026. We started this in 2000 and we’ve sent out $4.5 million plus in love offerings. And until they tell us that there’s a cure, we’re just not going to stop. So I probably send out another video, maybe bug you one more time before the event. I just want to communicate with you, get everything lined up, but go get your tickets at 18 FORE Life.com now tell your friends to go get them. You won’t be disappointed that you joined us at the at the Elks Lodge 6:00. Doors open at 430 on June 5th, and again, we’ll pray for great weather for the golf event. We thank all of our sponsors and supporters. We just we just we have a lot of good stuff going on. We just appreciate the teamwork and the collaboration that it takes to to pull this thing off. So you guys have a great Memorial Day weekend, enjoy the holidays, be safe and we hope to see you very soon.