NATCHEZ — The golf tournament to raise money for Bob Foley and his family on April 16 was a great success, tournament organizer Clay Arnold said.

The tournament attracted 19 four-man teams and raised approximately $1,000 for Foley and his family.

Foley was diagnosed with cancer in January, and Arnold, along with some other friends of Foley, organized the fundraising tournament to raise some money for Foley’s wife Jennifer and three kids Cameron, Madeline and Dylan.

Arnold was impressed with the turnout and said he was proud of the way the people of Natchez rallied around the cause.

“I felt like the people of Natchez really came through again,” Arnold said.

“Two teams came up that weren’t signed up at all, and we added them because we weren’t passing up money (for Foley),” Arnold said.

Arnold also said they were selling two mulligans for $10, and someone asked him if they could purchase more than two.

“(I told him), ‘You can buy as many as you want,’ and people started buying six mulligans for $30. Now you have 70 people paying for mulligans. We raised a pretty good amount of money,” Arnold said.

Although Foley was unable to play in the tournament, he did have some ideas with what to do with the money, Arnold said.

Foley told Arnold that he and his wife were going on a honeymoon with the money, because when they were first married they were both too busy with work to go, Arnold said.

Foley also received a hat and ball marker from The Master’s that his friend and Cathedral classmate Johnny Ray brought him from Augusta.

“He really enjoyed that day,” Arnold said.

Ray was actually a member of the winning team as well, Arnold said. Ray along with Tommy Geohagen, Finley Trosclair, James David Logan and Peter Arnold shot a 54 to win the tournament.��