Golf Event - Herb Brooks Foundation

Herb Brooks Golf Classic


Don’t miss the opportunity to celebrate the life and accomplishments of Coach Brooks as well as meet some of the biggest names in hockey, all while have a great time at the annual Herb Brooks Golf Classic!


Join the fun at the 2025 Herb Brooks Foundation Golf Classic and help grow the game of hockey!


Each summer the Herb Brooks Foundation conducts a golf tournament that is both relaxing and competitive. Complete with prizes, luncheon and the announcement of the Herb Brooks Foundation Hall of Fame recipient. The Herb Brooks Golf Classic has grown into a must attend event.


The Herb Brooks Golf Classic, on July 29th, 2025, will be hosted at the Keller Golf Course located in Maplewood, MN. Register online at: https://givebutter.com/Brooks25


Tournament Details


  • Registration at the Keller Clubhouse at TBD
  • Complimentary driving range and putting green open at TBD
  • Luncheon and announcement of the Herb Brooks Hall of Fame winner at TBD
  • 4 person scramble
  • Shotgun start at TBD
  • Post golf social and award winners
  • Hole in one contest on all five par 3 holes
  • Luncheon and post-golf social included
  • Complimentary hot dogs and beverages
  • Awards for closest to pin, longest drive, longest putt, skins game, and lowest team score
  • On-course games, including gimmes and mulligans, included in the registration fee

Cost


  • $1500 for a foursome, $400 for individuals.
  • Hole sponsorship: $1000 for one hole (or add $500 to a foursome)

One (1) Hole Sponsor (Tee Box or Green-side signage with your Company’s name and logo) with the option to have a table or booth present to promote the brand association, hand out collateral materials, and greet the players.


FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

 

PAT REIS - HerbBrooksGolf@gmail.com or 612-636-3905 - or register online at: https://givebutter.com/Brooks25

Golf Classic
Sponsors:

DONATE $19.80 IN HONOR OF THE 1980 US OLYMPIC HOCKEY TEAM

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Mission

Introducing, providing and maintaining a variety of hockey-related opportunities at no cost for our youth — while growing the game.

Herb's Vision

In his later years, Herb Brooks applied his brilliant hockey mind to make sure that young players of all abilities developed their skills properly. Herb worked a long time to refocus youth hockey on practice, fundamentals and skill development in place of playing and winning games.

Herb was going against the grain. Practice had begun to be overshadowed by games, while Herb believed practice should take a higher prominence over games.

Practice, practice, practice. Herb thought that practice with instruction — rather than game play — is a better environment for youth players to learn the fundamentals.

In Europe, the approach is vastly different, and in many ways, better. Coaches there stress fundamentals in skating, puck control with speed, and passing—an approach similar to Herb’s. They also run dynamic, fast-moving, fun practices. Rather than waiting in line to skate around a cone and shoot on a goalie, Europeans often play small games, 2-on-2 or 3-on-3. There is very little stationary time—the entire ice surface is used for the entire hour—and the results are impressive.

History

Herb had inspired many people, and not just through his extraordinary coaching success. His emphasis on keeping hockey fun for everyone who wants to play resonated.

Not long after his death, Herb’s family, his son, Dan, his daughter, Kelly Brooks Paradise, and his cousin, Bill Weller, took up the mantle and created the Herb Brooks Foundation. They commissioned a small board of directors, and then got to work. The first step was a “market analysis.” Was there enough demand for a back-to-basics approach, such as the one Herb championed?

The answer, not surprisingly, was an emphatic “yes,” and Herb’s survivors had their mandate. They also discovered that many people in the hockey community were more than willing to donate their time and expertise to help, while others gave money. In 2007, they helped develop the Herb Brooks Training Center as part of the Schwan Super Rink expansion project at the National Sports Center in Blaine, Minn., about 12 miles north of the Twin Cities. The Schwan Super Rink opened in 1998 with four sheets of ice and expanded in 2007 to not only include the Herb Brooks Training Center but an additional four sheets of ice as well, making it the largest ice complex on earth.

Board members spend time partnering with the business community, soliciting donations and commitments.

Legacy

As the Herb Brooks Foundation continues to grow it manages numerous additional programs—golf tournaments, used equipment drives, sponsorship opportunities, etc. All are designed with Herb’s ideas in mind: Improve the game; improve the players; increase their opportunities to play. Herb believed that these methods would develop excellent people. The results are bearing that out.