On June 21, 2010, 132 golfers and 54 tennis players took part in the Fourteenth Annual Howard W. Koch Memorial DGA Foundation Golf Tournament, and the Seventh Annual DGA Foundation Tennis Tournament. Both events are fundraisers created to benefit the Directors Guild Foundation (DGF), a non-profit 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 the 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 First Vice Chair/DGA Past President Gene Reynolds thanked all the players for their participation and announced that due to their generosity, more than $50,000 had been raised on behalf of the Foundation. He turned the podium over to DGA Secretary-Treasurer Gil Cates who thanked all the supporters of the tournaments including: golf tournament co-chairs Mel Damski and Michael Zinberg, 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 the tennis tournament's director; and the tournaments' gold, silver and bronze sponsors, before proceeding to name the winners.
Gold Sponsors:
- Anthem Blue Cross
- Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, Inc.
- BlackRock
- Bush Gottlieb Singer Lopez Kohanski Adelstein & Dickinson
- Cohen & Steers Capital Management, Inc.
- Grosvenor Capital Management, L.P.
- IngleDodd Publishing
- Medco Health Solutions, Inc.
- Mellon Asset Management
- Miller, Kaplan, Arase & Co., LLP
- Nigro, Karlin, Segal & Feldstein
- Pension Consulting Alliance, Inc.
Silver Sponsors:
- Delta Dental Plan of California
- Jay D. Roth
- JP Morgan Chase
- Latham & Watkins
- Motion Picture & Television Fund
- Moving Image Technologies
- Peerless Building Maintenance Co.
- Rossmore Property & Casualty
- The Revere Group
- Urdang Securities Management
Bronze Sponsors:
- Acadian Asset Management, Inc.
- Barco Digital Cinema
- Batterymarch Financial Management, Inc.
- Bernstein Real Estate
- Capital Dynamics, Inc.
- Cinema Technology Services
- City National Bank
- Crestline Management
- Earnest Partners, LLC
- EMCOR Group, Inc.
- Fox Printing Company
- GNW - Evergreen Insurance Services
- Goldman, Sachs Asset Management
- Henegan Construction Co., Inc.
- I.A.T.S.E.
- Legacy Partners
- L.E.K. Consulting
- Los Angeles Capital Management
- Massa Studio Sound & Projection
- Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
- Norm Levin & Company
- Nuveen Investments
- PIMCO
- Securitech Security Services
- Standard Parking
- The Phillips Group
- Veneklasen Associates
- Western Asset Management
