{"id":23015,"date":"2025-11-17T07:33:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=23015"},"modified":"2025-11-17T07:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:33:29","slug":"veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day Golf Outing Raises $3,050 For Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23017 additional-class\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/wei-thies-640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/wei-thies-640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/wei-thies-640-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Pictured is Tom Jones and Manny Wei.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the 19th Annual Chris Thies Sr. Veterans Day Golf Outing was held at the Cardinal Golf Course in Effingham.<\/p>\n<p>It was perfect weather for the 42 golfers supporting the veterans. Raised for the Effingham County Veterans Memorial was $3,050 bringing the total raised to date to $37,000.<\/p>\n<p>The winning team consisted of Jake Nelson, Pete Goeckner, Rick Huss and Mark Kensil.<\/p>\n<p>The sponsors were Effingham American Legion, Cardinal Greens Keepers, The Elks, IDVA, Rush Trucking, Big Papa\u2019s, Puerto Vallarta, Niemerg\u2019s Steakhouse, Top Shelf Liquors, E-Environmental Solutions, Barr Construction, Truck Centers, Wortman Development, Koerner\u2019s Distributing, Bahrn\u2019s Equipment, Peoples Bank, Steve\u2019s Liquor, Crossroads Counseling, Donnawald Distributing, Roy Schmidt Honda, Kyle Painter, Joel Holmes, Effingham DAV, Serv Pro, Foreway Golf, St Elmo Golf, Mattoon Country Club, Cardinal Golf Course and the Nest, Milano and Grunloh Engineering, Country Companies, GTSI, Eagle Creek Golf, Pagel Silver Dollar Lanes and Ole Liquor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Pictured is Tom Jones and Manny Wei. On Sunday, the 19th Annual Chris Thies Sr. Veterans Day Golf Outing was held at the Cardinal Golf Course in Effingham. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-23015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf","tag-sports-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Veterans Day Golf Outing Raises $3,050 For Memorial - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Veterans Day Golf Outing Raises $3,050 For Memorial - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-17T13:33:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/wei-thies-640.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Millie Lange\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Millie Lange\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/golf\\\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/golf\\\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Millie Lange\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0ecf2a966f6bc51e38a364270d9d4aa2\"},\"headline\":\"Veterans Day Golf Outing Raises $3,050 For Memorial\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-17T13:33:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/golf\\\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":164,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/golf\\\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/11\\\/wei-thies-640.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Sports Featured\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Golf\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/golf\\\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/golf\\\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\\\/\",\"name\":\"Veterans Day Golf Outing Raises $3,050 For Memorial - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/golf\\\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/golf\\\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/11\\\/wei-thies-640.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-17T13:33:29+00:00\",\"description\":\"Effingham's News and Sports Leader\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/golf\\\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/golf\\\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/golf\\\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/11\\\/wei-thies-640.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/11\\\/wei-thies-640.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":630},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/golf\\\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Veterans Day Golf Outing Raises $3,050 For Memorial\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/premier-logo-v1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/premier-logo-v1.png\",\"width\":272,\"height\":69,\"caption\":\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0ecf2a966f6bc51e38a364270d9d4aa2\",\"name\":\"Millie Lange\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/author\\\/millie-lange\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Veterans Day Golf Outing Raises $3,050 For Memorial - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","description":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Veterans Day Golf Outing Raises $3,050 For Memorial - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","og_description":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader","og_url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/","og_site_name":"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","article_published_time":"2025-11-17T13:33:29+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":630,"url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/wei-thies-640.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Millie Lange","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Millie Lange","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/"},"author":{"name":"Millie Lange","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/0ecf2a966f6bc51e38a364270d9d4aa2"},"headline":"Veterans Day Golf Outing Raises $3,050 For Memorial","datePublished":"2025-11-17T13:33:29+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/"},"wordCount":164,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/wei-thies-640.jpg","keywords":["Sports Featured"],"articleSection":["Golf"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/","name":"Veterans Day Golf Outing Raises $3,050 For Memorial - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/wei-thies-640.jpg","datePublished":"2025-11-17T13:33:29+00:00","description":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/wei-thies-640.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/wei-thies-640.jpg","width":640,"height":630},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/golf\/23015-veterans-day-golf-outing-raises-3050-for-memorial\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Veterans Day Golf Outing Raises $3,050 For Memorial"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/","name":"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/premier-logo-v1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/premier-logo-v1.png","width":272,"height":69,"caption":"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/0ecf2a966f6bc51e38a364270d9d4aa2","name":"Millie Lange","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/author\/millie-lange\/"}]}},"modified_by":"Millie Lange","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23018,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015\/revisions\/23018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}