Laguna Beach Golf Tournament Benefits Hobie Alter Memorial

LAGUNA BEACH, CA — There is a dream to build a Hobie Memorial in Dana Point. A life-sized bronze statue commemorating Hobie Alter sailing his Hobie 14 Catamaran in the waves of Dana Point.

On Monday, May 22, the first annual Hobie Alter Memorial 3-Club Barefoot Golf Tournament will be held at the Ranch at Laguna Beach according to recent release. The tournament will have a shotgun start at 3 p.m., in a scramble format.

Tickets are $250 and include golf, prizes and dinner. Dinner only tickets are $110.

Register online at: Hobie Alter Memorial 3-Club Barefoot Golf Tournament at: hobiememorial.com

Proceeds for the benefit will go toward The Hobie Memorial.

"The sculpture depicting Alter leaning from a Hobie Cat sailboat is envisioned on Coast Highway, opposite Doheny State Beach in front of the new South Cove condos development," spokeswoman Karin Schnell said.

The condominiums where the surf park will be built broke ground in March of 2017.

"Doheny Beach is surfing," Mayor Debra Lewis said of the new park that will honor surf history in Orange County. "(Surfing) began here. The two are inextricably linked. Nothing will remind people of the fact better than the life-sized Hobie Cat with Hobie at the helm."

Read: Dana Point's Newest Park To Honor Surf History

According to a GoFundMepage set up to raise money for this sculpture, the base of that statue will commemorate all of the late Hobie Alter's historical contributions to the world's surfing and sailing culture and industries.

Alter passed away in March of 2014 at 80-years-old.

Photo, courtesy City of Dana Point