It’s our favourite combination of gelato, porchetta, pizza, darts and golf. It’s the Grandravine Charity Classic golf tournament. As golfers arrived for registration, they could feast on the mouth watering porchetta on a bun, with or without the hot peppers served up by our gracious volunteers. Just what you need to put some power in that tee shot. Then top it off with an espresso, gelato or, better yet, an Afocado from I Love Gelato.

While they waited for the shotgun start golfers could warm up on the driving range or better yet try their luck at the Golf Dart game.

+The rules are simple. Hit three tennis balls with a unique oversized golf club onto a giant Velcro blow-up dart board and add up the score just like regular darts. It may or may not improve your chipping game but it is a lot of fun.

So you wanna eatzza some pizza. No problem. Eatzza My Pizza was serving up delicious wood fired oven pizza just as the golfing got started. Just what was need to keep you going till dinner.

In case you think this tournament is just about food but there was some golfing to do. It was a glorious sun filled day as 200 golfers teed off at 1:00PM. Along the way there was the $10,000 hole in one contest. Sadly there were no winners again this year, but we did have a few people though take home prizes for the longest drive and closest to the hole competitions.

The day ended with a delicious dinner buffet in the Cardinal club house. Grandravine president Joe Rizzuto and myself presided over the prize presentations and raffle draws. There was also a special draw for one week stay at the Torre Fiore resort in Pisticci, Italy donated by Fram & Slokker.

There are many people that go into putting on an event like this. First of all, I couldn’t do this without the help of my wife Luci. Long with Luci there is a large crew of hard working volunteers that made sure that everything went smoothly from registration to the final raffle.

I would also like to thank our two photographers Terry Mancini and Vasiliy Ryabykh and Top Drawer Images who volunteered their time to take the group photos and all the other photos you see here.

Check out all the photos in our GALLERY. Your foursome’s group photo can be found at and download from SOUVENIR GROUP PHOTOS

I also want to thank Jason McNally and all the cheerful, helpful staff of the Cardinal Golf club for a wonderful day.

Then there is Coro Electric, our tournament partner, and driving force behind this event from the beginning. I want to thank Mike Corvinelli and Alessandra Corvinelli for all the hard work they put into this tournament and more importantly I want to thank them for all the “HEART” they put into it.

And, of course, I want to thank all the participants and sponsors who come out support us year after year. They are true friends of Grandravine.

Thank You to All Our Valued Sponsors