Class of 1994 golf tournament to complement football boosters

The Fallbrook Alumni and Friends Golf Tournament which will take place July 25 at the Fallbrook Golf Club is not a direct challenge to the annual Fallbrook Football Booster golf tournament which this year will occur June 14 at the Pala Mesa course. The Fallbrook Alumni and Friends Golf Tournament has the support of the football boosters, who will be the beneficiary of the alumni tournament’s proceeds, and the alumni group has also been working with Fallbrook High School head coach Kyle Williams.

The July 25 golf tournament date is the same day as Fallbrook High School’s Class of 1994 reunion, which will take place that night at Pala Casino. “Some of the guys come from out of state, out of town,” said 1994 graduate Chris Fore, who is organizing the golf tournament. “We were talking about going out and playing golf.”

Injuries from an automobile accident prevented Fore from playing football during his senior year at Fallbrook High School, so he spent 1993 as the offensive line coach for the Warriors’ freshman team, but Fore had been involved with the Warriors’ football program. He continued in coaching after his graduation from Fallbrook High School, serving as an assistant coach for the Warriors’ 1995 varsity team before coaching at Linfield High School in Temecula, Capistrano Valley Christian High School in San Juan Capistrano, and Excelsior Charter School in Victorville. Fore will spend the 2014 high school football season as an assistant coach for Oak Hills High School in Hesperia.

He has also been the athletic director at Capistrano Valley Christian and at Excelsior, which gives him familiarity with fundraising golf tournaments from the organizing end. “I’ve got a lot of experience doing them as an AD,” he said.

Fore’s passion for football has kept him in touch with many of the Fallbrook High School graduates who played football for the Warriors. The concept of playing golf led to the idea of a tournament to raise money for the Fallbrook football program. “We came to this whole idea of having one on the day of our reunion,” he said. “Our class has had a vision to partner with Coach Williams.”

Fore’s initial response was to ensure that he was working with rather in conflict with the football program. “I called the Fallbrook booster club; I talked to Kyle Williams,” Fore said.

Williams considered the golf tournament more than just a source of funding for the football program. “He’s trying to rekindle the relationship with the alumni,” Fore said.

Fore now lives in Victorville, and the fact that he is chairing the tournament from out of town is no obstacle. Fore will not actively seek sponsors, not because of distance but because he doesn’t want to dilute the potential of the previous month’s tournament. “We didn’t want to conflict with the booster club tournament,” he said. “You don’t want to hit them (likely sponsors) up twice so close together.”

Interested sponsors, as well as interested players, can inquire about the tournament through Fore’s http://www.coachfore.org website, and players can also sign up for the tournament on-line at that website. The presence of out-of-town residents in Fallbrook for the reunion will give the alumni tournament a player base which might not have participated in this month’s tournament.

“I’m just hoping we’ll be able to get enough folks out there to make it worth it,” Fore said. “We just want to encourage really anybody. You don’t have to be alumni.”