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Welcome to the Atlanta Tennis Podcast.

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And today we have a special guest, Mike Robertson, who is Director of Racket Sports at TPC Sugarloaf.

Mike tells us about their charity Pro Am Weekend, supporting birdies for the brave,

the vigilant torch, and the women's club of Sugarloaf Country Club.

Have a listen and let us know what you think.

My name is Mike Robertson, I'm the Director of Racket Sports at TPC Sugarloaf.

And I just want to say thanks to Shaun for having me on.

And being here during our charity Pro Am Weekend, we are a part of a Pro Am charity week here at TPC

Sugarloaf in conjunction with golf and pickleball. It's a week-long event that supports birdies for

the brave, which is a charity that's run by the PGA tour, but also the vigilant torch and the

women's club of Sugarloaf Country Club. And under the women's club, charities like the Duluth

Food Co-op fall under that. And so this weekend and week really is all about creating as much

support as possible for these very worthwhile charities. What that involves is our membership

getting involved in contributing and participating in our Pro Am event. And what that means is they

enter into a weekend-long commitment of playing tennis with a professional against other members

in their professional. What that means is that the Lanna Pros really band together during the

month of August to support as many of the local clubs as possible. So for example, the first week of

August Country Club of Rosewell and Marcus Ruchy hosts their Pro Am the second week of August TPC

Sugarloaf here with us. We have ours in which case a lot of the same pros play both events.

So a lot of teaching pros, former pros donate a lot of time during the month of August to support

a lot of worthwhile causes. And it's really cool for us as tennis people to be a part of something

that's a lot bigger than just plant tennis. Yeah, we're having a lot of fun this weekend. It's a

million degrees, but we're doing it for a big cause. And so people will come out and really enjoy

themselves remembering that what we're doing is raising awareness, raising funds for specifically

veterans that are coming back from foreign affairs and need some help and need some assistance.

And we're happy to be a part of that. And so for us, our Pro Am event is really one of our

signature events for the year. We look forward to it all year long. We plan for it for about a year.

And we really enjoy doing it. So just want to say thank you out there to all the pros that are

in Atlanta that are contributing their time all weekend longer in the month of August to help as

many worthwhile charities as possible. It's a really great thing to be a part of.

Well, there you have it. We want to thank reGeovinate.com for use of the studio. And be sure to hit that

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