ABOUT OUR TOURNAMENT
RL Gant Get Checked! Celebrity Golf Classic is a 3-day gathering of current and former professional athletes, actors, artists and business executives where we discuss our collective strategy to get the word out to men, women, our families, friends and our communities about the importance of “getting checked” for prostate and colorectal cancer.
The tragic passing of Chadwick Boseman, the talented actor, at the age of 43 came as a surprise and shock to many. For a seemingly healthy, relatively young man to die from colorectal cancer seems almost incomprehensible.
Both prostate and colorectal cancer disproportionately affect the African American community, where the rates are the highest of any racial/ethnic group in the US. African Americans are about 20% more likely to get colorectal cancer and about 40% more likely to die from it than most other groups. And among African American men, 19 percent - nearly one in five – will be diagnosed and five percent of those will die from prostate cancer.
Prostrate Cancer & Colorectal Cancer Screening
In fact, colorectal cancer, is the second deadliest cancer in the country and prostate cancer is the fourth most common reason overall for death of African American men.
Early-onset colorectal cancers have been increasing by about 2 percent per year since the mid-1990s. This increase has moved colorectal cancer up to being the top cause of cancer deaths in men under the age of 50 and the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in women under 50 in the United States.
African Americans are disproportionately burdened by cancer in general. The reasons for these differences are complex, but they largely reflect differences in risk factors and in health care access, which historically, can also be related to socioeconomic status.
They often experience greater obstacles to cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and survival, including systemic racial disparities that are complex and go beyond the obvious connection to cancer.
The mission of the RL Gant Sports Get Checked! Celebrity Golf Classic is to get screening information in front of all attendees about this important health issue. Then you can take our collective messages back into locker rooms, onto film sets, backstage in dressing rooms, into business suites and into our homes. To use your celebrity and influence to educate our communities about how early screening saves lives
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BRAND PARTNERSHIPS
RL Gant Sports, Get Checked! Celebrity Golf Classic delivers an unprecedented opportunity, brand experiences and a showcase, to build relationships through exclusivity and hospitality. Whether you’re thanking your top clients or rewarding high performers within your organization, entertaining them at RL Gant Sports Get Checked! Celebrity Golf Classic is smart business.
All of our Brand Partners become an integral part of this event and receive customized comprehensive marketing platforms that are keyed into your brands marketing strategy and objectives, including robust social media overlays which can feature attending athletes, entertainers and artists, as an effective tool to communicate with key customers.
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