C of O reels in $530K from Bass Pro Legends of Golf tournament

College of the Ozarks earned a haul from the inaugural Big Cedar Lodge Legends of Golf Presented by Bass Pro Shops.

Announced yesterday during a PGA Tour ceremony at the college, C of O was named 2014 Champions Tour Charity of the Year, which came with a $30,000 award. That’s in addition to the $500,000 C of O received from the June tournament at Big Cedar Lodge as its leading charitable beneficiary. The Point Lookout school split a roughly $1 million pot with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, an organization close to the heart of Bass Pro and Big Cedar owner John Morris.

“This honor, in many ways, will let the rest of the world discover what we in the Ozarks know and cherish about College of the Ozarks,” Morris said in a news release.

The $30,000 award will go toward C of O’s Missouri Vietnam Veterans Memorial under construction on campus. Expected to be unveiled in April, the monument was deemed the official Vietnam War memorial for Missouri by the state legislature.

“College of the Ozarks recognition as our Charity of the Year is well deserved in light of their efforts in providing the fundamental building blocks of the ‘Hard Work U’ experience for students,” Champions Tour President Greg McLaughlin said in the release. “Students working a campus job in return for their education is a good example of one of our core values - giving back.”[[In-content Ad]]