The Cousins' Cup Charity Golf Tournament

Thursday, September 24, 2026

Lake Blackshear Resort Golf Course

Cordele, GA

Benefiting the Melanated Cares Foundation

You're in the right place, Cousin.

Thursday, September 24, 2026 Lake Blackshear Resort Golf Course · Cordele, Georgia

Eighteen holes, shotgun start, teams of four, and a whole lot of trash talk before anybody swings.

Pick your spot and you're in.

Register — $135 solo Register a foursome — $520

Registration is handled on Givebutter for Melanated Cares Foundation, our 501(c)(3).

Thursday, September 24

The golf part.

Format

18-hole scramble, shotgun start. Your team plays the best ball, so nobody's bad shot follows them around all day.

Included

Green fees, cart, lunch, dinner, welcome gift, on-course contests, and the awards ceremony.

Bring

Your own clubs. That's it. Everything else is handled.

Field size

85 players. 21 foursomes. The course only has so many carts, so when it's full, it's full.

A Cousins' Cup player putting with the Lake Blackshear clubhouse and cart fleet behind

You don't need a good swing. Scramble format — your team plays the best ball.

First timers, this part's for you

Never played? Perfect.

Most of this field has never played a tournament in their life. Scramble format means your worst swing quietly disappears and somebody else carries the hole. You'll finish the round, you'll eat good, and you'll take the picture.

Not swinging at all? $65 puts you in the cart with your crew, plus lunch and dinner. No shame in it — some of our favorite people do exactly that.

Come spectate — $65

Who's in your cart? The one who swears they almost went pro. The one who can actually play. The one who came for the pictures. The one losing every ball y'all brought. $520 for the foursome — one person checks out for all four.

Bring your whole foursome

One checkout. Four seats.

Grab the $520 foursome and one person checks out for all four — no chasing anybody down for money. Or register solo at $135 and we'll put you on a team.

Register the foursome — $520 Register solo — $135

Two Camp Cousins putting while a third watches from behind

Every swing funds somebody's first week outside. Benefiting the Melanated Cares Foundation.

Why we play

Where your money goes.

Every dollar past cost funds the Melanated Cares Foundation:

Camp EmpowerHER & Camp EmpowerHIM — young people outside, some for the first time
Scholarships — college, trade school, certification
Color & Chill — outdoor mental wellness for grown folks
Veteran outdoor weekends — because a lot of them came home alone
Family emergency support — for folks having one hard month, not a hard life

Melanated Cares is a registered 501(c)(3).

Want to see it instead of read about it?

▶ Watch Camp EmpowerHIM ▶ Watch Camp EmpowerHER

One more thing

Thursday is opening day.

The Cousins' Cup kicks off Melanated Campout Homecoming — September 25–27, same lake. Golf Thursday and stay the whole weekend, or golf and go home. Plenty of folks do both.

See Homecoming packages

Camp Cousins out on the course at golden hour

See y'all on the first tee. We'll save you a spot, Cousin. Thursday, September 24, 2026.

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Questions? Call 404.832.0277
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