On Monday, June 22, 2009, 120 golfers and 52 tennis players took part in the Thirteenth Annual Howard W. Koch Memorial DGA Golf Tournament, and the Sixth Annual DGA Tennis Tournament. Both events are fundraisers created to benefit the Directors Guild Foundation (DGF) an organization dedicated to assisting DGA members facing difficult times.
The golf tournament - renamed in 2001 in honor of former DGF Chair Howard W. Koch - and the awards reception were held at Los Angeles' Hancock Park district's prestigious Wilshire Country Club, which was founded in 1919 and has hosted many great tournaments and groups such as the LA Open, the Senior PGA and the LPGA. The tennis tournament took place right around the corner at the Los Angeles Tennis Club, home of champions since 1921.
DGF Treasurer/DGA Past President Gene Reynolds thanked all the players for their participation and announced that due to their generosity, approximately $50,000 had been raised on behalf of the Foundation. Reynolds then then turned the podium over to Golf Tournament co-chair Michael Zinberg who thanked all who supported the tournaments including: Golf Tournament co-chair Mel Damski, DGA National Executive Director Jay D. Roth; the Wilshire Country Club and Los Angeles Tennis Club; Tennis Tournament co-chairs Howard Storm and Gil Cates Jr.; the USTA's Annette Buck who served as Tennis Tournament Director; and the tournament's Gold, Silver and Bronze Sponsors, before proceeding to name the winners.
The DGA would like to thank our Golf and Tennis Tournaments' Sponsors
Gold Sponsors:
· Anthem Blue Cross · Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, Inc. · BNY Mellon Asset Management · Bush Gottlieb Singer Lopez Kohanski Adelstein & Dickinson · Grosvenor Capital Management L.P. · Horizon Actuarial Services, LLC · International Creative Management · Medco · Miller Kaplan Arase & Company · Nigro Karlin Segal & Feldstein, LLP · Pension Consulting Alliance, Inc. ·
Silver Sponsors:
· BlackRock · Cohen & Steers Capital Management · Delta Dental · JP Morgan Asset Management · Latham & Watkins LLP · Moving Image Technologies · PIMCO · The Revere Group · Rossmore Property Management · Urdang ·
Bronze Sponsors:
· Acadian Asset Management · Barco, Inc. · Batterymarch Financial Management, Inc. · Bernstein Real Estate · BNY ConvergEx · City National Bank · Collier Capital · ELS · Fox Printing · GNW - Evergreen Insurance Services · Goldman Sachs Asset Management · Henegan Construction Inc. · IngleDodd Publishing · Legacy Partners · Lirol Productions · Los Angeles Capital Management · Nuveen Investments · Peter H. Alpert, Inc. · Robeco Investment Management · Securitech Security Services Inc. · Vision Service Plan · Western Asset Management ·
