Large crowds and memorable performances in the course of the CPKC Girls’s Open helped Canadian Pacific Kansas Metropolis (CPKC) elevate a document $4.3 million for coronary heart well being in Alberta, with $3.8 million to the Alberta Youngsters’s Hospital Basis and $507,000 to the Purple Deer Regional Well being Basis.
Lauren Coughlin completed the week 13 beneath par to take house her first LPGA Tour victory and the US$390,000 winner’s share of the US$2.6 million purse, one of many largest for a non-major on the LPGA Tour.
“It was fantastic to have the CPKC Girls’s Open again in Calgary, house to CPKC’s world headquarters and over 2,000 of our railroaders, lots of whom contributed to the unimaginable success of this week’s match,” mentioned Keith Creel, CPKC President and CEO. “Congratulations to Lauren Coughlin on profitable the CPKC Girls’s Open and her first LPGA tour victory. Calgarians cheered on Lauren and all of the world-class golfers whereas serving to make a giant distinction for youths who’re preventing to stay the total, wholesome lives they deserve.
“Collectively, this 12 months we raised an unimaginable document quantity to assist youngsters’s coronary heart well being,” Creel added. “CPKC is honored to proceed making a long-lasting distinction in communities throughout Canada via CPKC Has Coronary heart, our group funding program supporting coronary heart well being initiatives.”
Since 2014, CPKC has helped elevate greater than $22 million for youngsters’s coronary heart well being because the title sponsor of the CPKC Girls’s Open. This 12 months’s complete donation, the most important within the CPKC title sponsorship’s historical past, is the results of a number of fundraising efforts of the CPKC Has Coronary heart marketing campaign. By CPKC Birdies for Coronary heart, CPKC contributed for every birdie made by Earl Gray Golf Membership members previous to the match and $5,000 for every birdie made by LPGA gamers on the 14th gap throughout championship match play at Earl Gray. CPKC additionally matched donations made throughout Alberta Youngsters’s Hospital Basis marketing campaign on-line in February, which is Coronary heart Month.
“We’re so grateful for our longstanding partnership with CPKC,” mentioned Saifa Koonar, President and CEO of the Alberta Youngsters’s Hospital Basis. “During the last a number of months and culminating with this week’s match, CPKC has been serving to encourage our group to assist pediatric coronary heart well being and generously matching donations. We’re in awe of the quantity that’s been raised, which is able to gasoline ground-breaking analysis to assist early detection of coronary heart defects in infants and provides them the very best outcomes in life.”
Purple Deer Regional Well being Basis was the 2024 CPKC Girls’s Open group accomplice.
“We’re extremely grateful for the generosity and assist from CPKC and the contributors of the CPKC Girls’s Open,” mentioned Manon Therriault, CEO of the Purple Deer Regional Well being Basis. “We completely loved working with the assorted groups that made this occur and had been overjoyed to be chosen as a group accomplice. We had been thrilled to interact our group, our donors, and our hospital employees on this initiative.”
“The funds raised will make a major impression on cardiac care within the Alberta Central Zone, making certain that our group has entry to the very best coronary heart well being providers,” added Therriault. “Our hospital is at present present process an enlargement, and group partnerships like this are the rationale why our expanded hospital may have the improved care that our group members deserve. This partnership exemplifies the facility of coming collectively to create significant change and enhance lives.”
“The impression that the CPKC Girls’s Open has on the communities that it touches via CPKC Has Coronary heart is immense,” mentioned Laurence Applebaum, Chief Govt Officer, Golf Canada. “The legacy and lasting profit to pediatric coronary heart well being saves lives and improves affected person care in significant methods. In 2024 CPKC Has Coronary heart as soon as once more set a brand new customary strengthening its place as one of many main philanthropic initiatives in Canada.”
