In 2009, 15-year-old Mary Drake and her boyfriend at the time, Blaine, were in a head-on automobile collision, leaving Drake with a traumatic brain injury, multiple fractures and very little control of her body. Blaine was spared from any major injuries, but Drake spent eight months in the hospital. Following Mary`s hospital stay, friends and family of the Drakes, along with the booster club at Mount St. Mary`s Academy in Little Rock, organized a celebrity basketball game. More than 3,000 people came to the game to support the Drake Family, and from that initial event, the Miracles Fore Mary Golf Tournament was created. The annual tournament began 11 years ago, in 2010, when friends of Jim...
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