Organizers of the David Ortiz Celebrity Golf Classic announced the event this year will be held 21-24 November 2019 at the Hotel Ritz-Carlton in Key Biscayne, near Ortiz’s Florida home. Ortiz is recovering from a bullet wound suffered on 9 June in eastern Santo Domingo. He was sent home from the Massachusetts General Hospital on 26 July. Local police say the case was one of mistaken identity.
Organizers explain that due to Big Papi’s ongoing treatment and an expected long road to recovery, the David Ortiz Children’s Fund will be holding its annual David Ortiz Celebrity Golf Classic in a new temporary location for 2019 – in Miami, Florida, close to David’s home.
The David Ortiz Foundation says that Ortiz has set an ambitious goal for this year’s event– to raise US$2M to create the only pediatric catheterization lab in the DR. It explains that over 2,000 children are born each year in the Dominican Republic with congenital heart disease, and without surgery, about 25% will die. Before they can have that surgery, the majority of these children require catheterization – having a long thin tube inserted into an artery that runs to their heart. There is not a cath lab available to them at present, and many children have died as a result.
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David Ortiz Children’s Fund
5 August 2019