Celebrity-packed Kirk Gibson Golf Classic coming to Rochester Hills
Former Tigers Kirk Gibson (second from right) and Alan Trammell (to Gibson’s immediate right) are pictured with two other members of their foursome at last year’s golf classic.
The Kirk Gibson Foundation for Parkinson’s announced its 9th Annual Kirk Gibson Golf Classic will be held Monday, August 18, at the Wyndgate Country Club in Rochester Hills.
Over the past eight years, the Kirk Gibson Golf Classic has raised more than $1.7 million to fund programs to benefit those living with Parkinson’s Disease and their families.
Each year, Kirk Gibson is joined by celebrities, and current and former athletes who have included Alan Trammell, Lance Parrish, Dave Rozema, Goose Gossage, Larry “The Cable Guy”, and Michigan State Head Men’s Basketball Coach Tom Izzo, just to name a few, who gather to show their support.
The Kirk Gibson Foundation for Parkinson’s was formed by former professional baseball player and manager Kirk Gibson after his diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease in 2015.
‘Gibby’ spreads Parkinson’s awareness
Gibson spent most of his career with the Tigers, but also played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Kansas City Royals and Pittsburgh Pirates.
Gibson now spends his time supporting his mission and vision of spreading awareness for Parkinson’s and providing inspiration and hope to others who are living with Parkinson’s.
The mission of the Kirk Gibson Foundation for Parkinson’s is to improve the quality of life of those living with Parkinson’s through the development and delivery of activity-based programs.
Through fundraising efforts like the Kirk Gibson Golf Classic, the foundation progresses their mission of opening a center for those living with Parkinson’s in Michigan.
Parkinson’s Wellness Center opening soon
The Kirk Gibson Center for Parkinson’s Wellness will open this fall at 31440 Northwestern Highway in Farmington Hills.
The wellness center will be the first of its kind in Michigan — a world-class facility where those impacted by Parkinson’s can access a range of activity-based programs, completely free of charge with no insurance required.
The Center will provide a series of free programs, many of which were developed by InMotion, a Cleveland based leader in the provision of evidence-based programs tailored for people with Parkinson’s disease.
Movement matters in the fight against Parkinson’s and through leveraging the InMotion ApproachTM, the Kirk Gibson Center will provide an integrated, holistic system of wellness programs designed to counteract the symptoms of the disease and to improve the quality of life of those people living with Parkinson’s disease here in Michigan.
Offering approximately 70 hours of weekly programming with initial capacity to provide 60,000 visitor hours per year, the center will ultimately serve as a model for collaborative coalitions in support of people living with Parkinson’s.
