Al Gordon Memorial Golf Day: Golfers teeing off to support Cancer Council

Mr Gordon died several years ago from cancer and his son Brett, along with good friend Michael Paddinson.

The pair started the Al Gordon Memorial Golf Day last year with 34 golfers hitting the course, but this year the event swelled to add over 90 more.

"It's a massive event," Mr Paddinson said.

"The day started to honour [Brett's] old man who died a few years ago from cancer. He was an avid golfer so the day started to remember him and to bring some good from it as well."

He said there were $6500 worth of prizes up for grabs which had been donated from across the city and region.

"It's quite a high value game and that's what we wanted to do, put something big to play on," he said.

"We still wanted to keep the day fun and I think with the group we've got here today we will.

"It's going to grow, we'll do this every year. It blew us away. It's good for the club too, they haven't had a lot of events and it'd be the marquee event of the calendar."

Brett Gordon said the support from across the community had been "unreal".

"We were hoping to get 100 players and we blew that out of the park three weeks ago," he said.

"We've got a target of $5000, if we get that we'd be over the moon."

There were bonus events held on the day, including a drive on the 10^th hole to hit a port-a-loo parked on the fairway.

The Cancer Council's Bree Kelly said events like this were "really important" in what had otherwise been a difficult year for charities such as The Cancer Council.

"It's a challenging time fundraiser-wise for us so it's initiatives like this which are really having an impact when it comes to funds and showing support to those impacted by cancer, and of course honouring Al Gordon," she said.

"It's really important to us, we can't do our big, regular events and it's community events like this which ensure patients can still get to treatment, they can still find suitable accommodation and we can keep investing into research."