PGA Golfer, Children’s of Mississippi Patient Bond on the Sanderson Farms Championship Fairway  – HottyToddy

By Annie Oeth

UMMC Communications and Advertising and marketing 

An alternate of autographed pictures sparked a friendship between PGA golfer and 2021 Sanderson Farms Championship winner Sam Burns and Mary Mosley Pickering, a affected person at Youngsters’s of Mississippi. 

Earlier this month, Burns, ranked twelfth within the Official World Golf Rankings, was signing pictures for sufferers throughout a go to to the state’s solely youngsters’s hospital. 5-year-old Mary Mosley of Philadelphia returned the favor by signing a photograph of herself for Burns. 

The 2 hit it off, so the Sanderson Farms Championship invited her and her household to go to The Nation Membership of Jackson Wednesday through the Walker’s Cay Professional-Am. The PGA TOUR shared a video of their go to on Fb. 

“Everybody we met was wonderful,” stated Jessica Pickering, Mary Mosley’s mother. Mary Mosley and her brother, Jackson, “liked getting to look at the golfers on the driving vary throughout warm-ups, the golf cart tour of the course, the putt-putt course that was arrange for teenagers, and the 360 Swing Sales space movies they received to make. Mary Mosley was on cloud 9 on the golf course with Sam! She felt like a film star!” 

September is Childhood Most cancers Consciousness Month. 

Identified with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2021, Mary Mosley is in remission however nonetheless receives remedies on the Heart for Most cancers and Blood Issues at Youngsters’s of Mississippi. 

“My husband, Blake, and I heard these phrases that no guardian needs to ever hear: ‘Your youngster has most cancers.’ I can attest that there is no such thing as a higher place to be if you must hear these dreaded phrases than Youngsters’s of Mississippi. From that day ahead, we now have had probably the most wonderful care. The physicians, nurses and whole employees at Youngsters’s of Mississippi have all grow to be a part of our household.” 

Burns stated touring Youngsters’s of Mississippi was “a tremendous expertise.” 

“To see what they do for kids round Mississippi was unbelievable,” he stated. “Youngsters’s of Mississippi has a big impact on so many youngsters’s lives and their households, so it was actually particular for me to see behind the scenes what goes on.” 

Mary Mosley is “an superior little lady,” Burns stated. “The way in which that she appears at life simply places a smile on all people’s face. She’s had extra of an impression on me than I’ve had on her. She all the time finds a method to make individuals round her take pleasure in life extra.” 

The Sanderson Farms Championship has been a serious supporter of Youngsters’s of Mississippi. Since Sanderson Farms, now Wayne-Sanderson Farms, grew to become title sponsor of the occasion, practically $15 million has been donated to Mates of Youngsters’s Hospital, a nonprofit that raises funds to learn Youngsters’s of Mississippi.  

“It’s a lot larger than golf,” Burns stated. “By way of the PGA TOUR, we’re capable of have big impacts on communities. To have the ability to see that first-hand right here in Jackson is fairly superior.”