Golf at Fenway

The Red Sox Foundation announced on Monday that it will host a raffle to provide three lucky winners with the opportunity to golf at Fenway Park during the “Chipping in for the Red Sox Foundation” event on Monday, August 29, that will kick-off the 2011 Deutsche bank Championship taking place labor day weekend. The raffle winner hitting a one-foot-diameter target in center field will win a $5,000 prize and the first to hit the target will generate a $50,000 donation to the Red Sox Foundation in the winner’s name.

Golfers and Red Sox fans hoping to take part in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity can purchase raffle tickets for $25 each at www.redsox.com/golf. Raffle tickets will be on sale Aug. 5-25, and the drawing is open to Massachusetts residents 18 and older. In addition, each raffle ticket purchased will include a ticket to the Deutsche Bank Championship’s Red Sox Legends & Friends Pro-Am, held Tuesday, Sept. 2 at TPC Boston.

A limited number of tickets will be sold, and the drawing will be held Aug. 25 at noon ET.

In addition to the three Grand Prizes to golf at Fenway, other raffle prizes include: a Red Sox Destinations Spring Training package; a package that includes four Green Monster tickets to an April 2012 Red Sox game, an opportunity to watch batting practice and a personalized scoreboard message; five 30-minute golf lessons at the Golf Town Academy, located at each of the 6 Golf Town stores in Massachusetts; a package that includes four grandstand tickets to a 2012 Red Sox game, an opportunity to watch batting practice and a personalized scoreboard message; and a Red Sox home jersey signed by Jim Rice.

Aside from the three raffle winners, Jim Rice, a Red Sox front-office executive and two randomly drawn participants from the Red Sox Legends & Friends Pro-Am will chip golf balls during the event, increasing the odds that someone will hit the target and secure a $50,000 donation to the Red Sox Foundation.