Tim Garvin, the head golf pro at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett, likes to give back to the community, and he, backed generously by the club’s membership and employees, did that recently by way of a benefit softball game played at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett that raised $30,000 for the East Hampton, Springs, and Montauk food pantries.
G.E. Smith played an electrified version of the National Anthem before the teams – Garvin managed the staffers, Alex Walter and Tim Brenneman the members – squared off in a hotly-contested showdown that wound up in a 15-15 tie. Jimmy Roberts of NBC and the Golf Channel provided the play-by-play.
Among the members team’s heavy hitters were Brenneman, his son, Tyler, a Notre Dame graduate who played varsity lacrosse there, Jim McMullan, and Kim Slawek, who pitched the whole way.
The club has raised money for the food pantries here in the past, $115,000 during the Covid pandemic, said Garvin, who this past spring was cited by the Professional Golfers’ Association’s metropolitan section as an outstanding mentor to more than a dozen assistant pros who have gone on to careers as head professionals themselves during his two-decade tenure at the rolling Amagansett course.