The mission of our organization is to provide financial assistance to families living with cancer. Nominations usually come from the people who have participated in the event however participating in the event is not a requirement in order to nominate a family to receive event proceeds.
If you would like to nominate an individual or family to receive event proceeds please provide us with some background on the nominees personal situation and some idea as to their level of financial need. Because of the tremendous need we consider financial hardship to be a significant factor in making our decisions to allocate funds. We do not promise that all nominee's will receive funds from this years' event but we try to help as many people as we can based on the number of nominees submitted and the amount of funds available. If the Good Guy Open does decide to send financial assistance to the person or family you nominated, we will notify you within 30 days of receiving your nomination. The person or family receiving the funds will not know who nominated them as possible recipients of Good Guy Open funds. They will receive a letter from the Good Guy Open with a check and a note to visit the Good Guy Open website if they would like to know more about the organization.
If you would like to send a written request please use the following address and include: your name, email address, name of person/family you are nominating, and their mailing address. Also, provide a brief description of the family's situation (Please include type of cancer, prognosis, financial need if known).
Good Guy Open
PO Box 162, Andover, Minnesota 55304
(651) 587-2472
Good Guy Open had our 25th and final golf event in 2022. Though there will be no golf tournament we still want to continue helping families living with cancer. So if you know someone living with cancer you would like to nominate to receive funds fill out our nominations form below. Since 1998 the tournament has helped over 319 families and raised over $832,000.00! All the memories and heartwarming moments is what we will miss most. It has been an HONOR getting to know everyone that has supports our organization and cause.
On June 28th 1997, Brooks Becker died after living with cancer for fourteen months. He was 38 years old. A few weeks before his death Brooks and a handful of family and friends had set a date to play some golf. Brooks never made our golf date but we got together anyway and played the round because we knew that Brooks would have wanted us to. At the end of the round we decided that getting together once a year to play a round of golf in Brooks' memory would be a good thing. As we thought about it more, we decided that the round could be much more than just a small group getting together to play some golf in the memory of a "good guy". We decided that we would begin hosting an annual event called the "Good Guy Open". For anyone who knew Brooks the tournaments' name is self-explanatory. Our idea was to use the event to raise some money and then to donate that money to a family or families living with cancer. We hosted the First Annual Good Guy Open on July 3rd, 1998.
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