{"id":32352,"date":"2025-06-29T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=32352"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:18:03","slug":"toby-keith-golf-tournament-raises-over-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/06\/toby-keith-golf-tournament-raises-over-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Toby Keith Golf Tournament Raises Over $1 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 21st annual Toby Keith &amp; Friends Golf Classic raised a remarkable $1.4 million this year.<\/p>\n<p>Event host Sammy Hagar made an initial $10,000 donation, and over $100,000 was raised in the first two minutes of the gala.<\/p>\n<p>The event, held at the Riverwind Casino in Norman, Oklahoma, featured a charitable golf tournament and a live auction that brought in an additional $600,000, with high-value items like a limited edition Toby Keith military guitar and a cowboy hat signed by George Strait fetching substantial bids.<\/p>\n<p>The yearly fundraiser supports the Toby Keith Foundation, which was founded by Keith in 2006 to provide aid to children and their families dealing with critical illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception, the annual event has raised over $20 million, with last year\u2019s contributions exceeding $3 million through the establishment of a new endowment fund.<\/p>\n<p>Before he died in 2024, Keith called his charitable efforts \u201cmy best gift I\u2019ve ever given to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DKAQM7-PsIr\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toby Keith &amp; Friends Annual Benefit Once Again Raises Over $1 Million For His Foundation","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":30310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3266,2491,6420,63,660,227,6421],"class_list":["post-32352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-fundraiser","tag-golf","tag-golf-tournament","tag-oklahoma","tag-sammy-hagar","tag-toby-keith","tag-toby-keith-and-friends"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 14:08:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/06\/toby-keith-golf-tournament-raises-over-1-million\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}