The names they’re getting are names.
Frank Cusamamo interviews Ascension Charity Classic presented by Emerson Ambassador Paul Stankowski.
View Uploaded FileWe’ve got a great look at this year’s hugely successful PGA Champions Tour tournament, Ascension Charity Classic in North St. Louis. They gave more than a million dollars to charity this year, over $800,000 last year and $225,000 in 2020 even without a tournament. With the PGA’s growing presence in our city, Nick Ragone and his team are talking even bigger and better for years to come.
Tournament Officials announced that the second playing of the Ascension Charity Classic presented by Emerson, concluded September 11, 2022, raised more than $1 million for charitable organizations in North St. Louis County and beyond. The total includes $225,000 for each of the tournament’s primary beneficiaries, Marygrove, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis, and Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis.
View Uploaded FileThe Ascension Charity Classic on Tuesday said it raised more than $1million in the second year of the PGA Tour Champions tournament.
The proceeds will go to various charitable organizations, mostly in north St. Louis County, including$225,000 each to the tournament's primary beneficiaries: Marygrove, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis and Urban League of Metropolitan St.Louis.
View Full PDFGiving Tuesday was the right day for the Ascension Charity Classic golf tournament to distribute one point three million dollars in checks to local charities from monies raised from the annual Champions Tour golf tournament. Ascension held a luncheon at Norwood Hill Country Club on Tuesday, site of the Ascension Charity Classic to distribute the money raised. Just two years after the golf event began, the tournament has raised over two million dollars for North County charities.
Read More on fox2now.comTim O’Neal is set to make a little history in Missouri.
After turning 50 earlier this month, O’Neal has received the first-ever exemption for an APGA Tour player into a PGA Tour Champions event at the Ascension Charity Classic presented by Emerson, September 9-11 at Norwood Hills Country Club in St. Louis.
Read More on golfweek.usatoday.comLPGA golfer Nancy Lopez makes her remarks during the Ascension Charity Classic Legends Luncheon, at Norwood Hills Country Club in Jennings, Missouri on July 27, 2022
Read More on upi.comHall of Famer Ozzie Smith joins Tom Ackerman and Carol Daniel talking about the Cardinals and upcoming events including the Ascension Charity Classic.
Read More on audacy.comThe names they’re getting are names.
History in golf spikes.
Bernhard Langer, two-time Masters champion.
Vijay Singh, Masters champ and two-time PGA Championship winner.
And John Daly, who won The Open Championship at St. Andrews and, impossibly, the 1991 PGA Championship as the ninth and final alternate.
What do you enjoy most about your partnership with the PGA TOUR?
NR: What I enjoy most about partnering with the PGA TOUR is the commitment to giving back. Ascension's Mission is to care for and give back to underserved communities, and the PGA TOUR shares that commitment to giving back, investing in, and strengthening local communities. There's a wonderful alignment between the PGA TOUR and Ascension when it comes to investing in communities and making a difference.
Two golf initiatives in north St. LouisCounty are pairing up.
The Ascension Charity Classic, anannual PGA Tour Champions eventplayed at Norwood Hills Country Club,said Thursday it has formed a long-term partnership with therevitalization effort at Normandie GolfClub in Bel-Nor.
View Full PDFNick Ragone joins the program to break the news on Ascension Charity Classic’s new partnership with Normandie Golf Club and the upcoming Nicklaus renovation, further expanding the ability to reach out to new pars of the community and continue growing North St. Louis County.
Read More on 101espn.comST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — A massive renovation effort at the historic Normandie Golf Course has new backers. The Ascension Charity Classic is committing to the project.
Ascension Executive Vice President Nick Ragone says his group will invest in Normandie with financial contributions and upgrades. The course will become a qualifying course for the Ascension Charity Classic and an Advocates Professional Golf Association tournament.
Scoops with Danny Mac features St. Louis native Jay Delsing talking all things Ascension Charity Classic presented by Emerson.
As the St. Louis region continues to rebound from COVID, the Ascension Charity Classic will be a unique chance to showcase the strength and diversity of North St. Louis County as the tournament is aired live nationally for all three rounds.
Read More on stlamerican.com View Uploaded FileBy Nathan Rubbelke – Reporter, St. Louis Business Journal
Feb 18, 2021 Updated Feb 19, 2021, 6:55am CST
When Nick Ragone joined Ascension in 2014, the St. Louis-based health system was focused on creating a more integrated operating model.
Key to that effort was a national rebranding to include the unified Ascension name on all of Ascension’s local health systems and locations. It’s an effort of which Ragone has been at the forefront of in his role as executive vice president and chief marketing and communications officer for the nonprofit Catholic health system with more than 2,600 sites of care.
Today, Ascension’s rebranding initiative is about 95% complete.
“To our knowledge, it’s the largest ever rebrand in the health care space,” Ragone said.
Ragone has also helped spearhead the Ascension Charity Classic, a senior professional golf tournament set to hold its inaugural event later this year at Norwood Hills Country Club. Net proceeds from the event will go to local charitable organizations.
Read More View Full PDFOn Tuesday at Norwood Hills Country Club, in North County, the PGA announced that the PGA Tour Champions—a group of professional golfers age 50 and older, including 33 members of the World Golf Hall of Fame—will begin a four-year tour in partnership with the nonprofit Catholic health care system Ascension in 2020.