Birdies for the Brave prize give away at the PGA headquarters in Pontra Vedra
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.—On the morning of Nov. 9, Sylvia Diamond of Ormond Beach, Fla., checked her cell phone and saw she had a couple of new e-mails. One in particular didn’t look like anything special—one from the PGA TOUR, something about a car—so she quickly deleted it and didn’t give it another thought. A couple of hours later, Diamond was sitting at her computer when she noticed the PGA TOUR e-mail again. Although deleted from her phone, it had not been purged from her account. Curious, she finally opened it. The e-mail, from the TOUR’s legal department, had three attachments. “One of the attachments was a congratulations letter,” Diamond said. That was “congratulations” as in “Hey, you just won a car!” Yet she still wasn’t entirely convinced. With a sheepish look on her face, Diamond remembered what she was thinking at the time, “I still thought it might be a scam because I didn’t get a phone call. I figured they would have called me. “So I called my husband,” she continued, “and I said, ‘Now listen to this. They’re saying I won a Mercedes.’” Cough, cough. “That’s when it clicked,” she added, “and I remembered contributing money to Birdies for the Brave and entering this contest.” “This contest” was a promotion sponsored by Brumos Motor Cars/Mercedes-Benz and Mercedes-Benz of Orange Park. The winner of a random drawing would win a Mercedes-Benz E350, with all the proceeds from the entries going to a program that involves numerous military-outreach efforts including the support of the Wounded Warrior Project. Although it was free to enter the contest, many entrants chose to donate to Birdies for the Brave, as well—Diamond included. Two weeks after that e-mail arrived, Diamond and her husband, Doug, a retired police sergeant, stood near the front entrance of the TPC Sawgrass clubhouse. A certain car with a huge, red bow prominently on the hood, sat on the driveway. When Charli Tomm, president and CEO of The Br
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