Over the past 40 years, Randy Jones has supported & played in hundreds of charity golf events here in San Diego. In 2012, a native San Diegan, Curtis Gandy created a unique concept for a fourball scramble format, only winning teams from local charity tournaments would be invited to play, the tournament would promote charity golf in San Diego & reward the winning team with a trip to Pebble Beach, $10,000 would be donated to their charity, scorekeepers would keep scores logit, free entry for all golfers (That's right FREE), free food & free drinks all Semi and Final rounds.  It would be at Randy's restaurant where Curtis pitched the concept to Randy Jones on a napkin & it took Randy no more than 10 minutes to say he was all in.  Matt Schwarz was the 3rd piece to added with his brilliance as our Harvard Law Graduate & Partner at DLA Piper, it was then when the Randy Jones Invitational was born.  Randy had 3 goals in mind when deciding to put his name on this tournament.                                                                                                                                                                  

Goal 1: Involve as many local charities as possible, helping them raise awareness and dollars for their own charities. 
Over the past 10 years there have been over 1,300 charities that have entered teams in Randy's Tournament.  $135,000 dollars has been donated to the winners’ charities over the past 10 years. RJI has helped them all raise thousands more with the 1.2 Million Dollars in FREE golf donated to 14,440 golfers, representing 1,300 charities.

​Goal 2: Find the top amateur foursome from all the San Diego charity golf tournaments played in San Diego, to achieve this, we knew there would be a need for scorekeepers & big prizes. (Golfers love this)!
The best of the best amateur teams have enjoyed this format for the past 10yrs.  10 Winners received $10,000 for their Charity and all 4 team members were flown in a private Jet to Pebble Beach to stay two nights & Play Pebble)!
 
Goal 3:  Create the best exposure opportunity ever offered to golf tournament sponsors in San Diego.  We knew by having 1,440 golfers, representing over 200 Charities, over 10 days and keeping the sponsor prices the same as a one-day tournament, we could achieve our 3rd Goal.                
 We did just that with the 1,440 golfers and the 10 days of tournaments each year, delivering to them with one of the most amazing marketing and exposure opportunities ever offered by a golf tournament here in San Diego.  (Sponsors have loved this format).  (Sycuan, EDCO, Corky, Kaiser, Padres, Wells Fargo, Northrup Grumman, KIA, El Cajon Ford, Attention Getters are just a few of the sponsors).


Top 10 reasons the Randy Jones Invitational (RJI) has been so well received.

1. Teams compete with their buddies in a San Diego County wide competitive scramble golf tournament.
2. $13,500 donated back to Local Charities for the winning teams annually.
3. Scorekeepers are provided on every hole for the Semifinals & Championship rounds.
4. The ultimate prize package... A dream escape to Pebble Beach (Golf at Pebble, 2 night stay at the Pebble Beach Lodge $7,500), travel accommodations provided with their own exclusive Private Jet (priceless). 
5. All Semifinal rounds are $180 per foursome, includes (Golf, Carts, Lunch, Drinks, Range Balls, Scorekeepers, and much more). 
6. Sponsors receive 10-times the exposure value of any other tournament in San Diego.  (Year-round marketing, Website, social media, registration, on course participation)
7. Have fun in the Largest Charity Driven golf tournament in the Country, at the same time giving cash back to multiple local charities helping them with their exposure & cause.
8. The help of hundreds of volunteers with several of them coming back year after year, continues to be one of the most important aspects of the tournaments continued success. 
9. Linda Gandy's part in the day-to-day operations & daunting task of managing the golfers for 10 tournaments in a row for the past 10 years plus a two-day final annually (120 tournament days total), has only been made possible with her 20 years experience with the Charger organization.
10. The outstanding efforts of  Kandi Nieto & her year-round handling of our golfer registrations, Wille Paine marvels at his handling of 200+ Volunteers annually and so much more, Mike Flores masters at organizing all of the signage for each tournament along  with a multitude of additional tournament responsibilities, Debra Bralla brilliantly handles the Auction/Raffle (collecting, creating, and setting up 200 items annually), Sue Doyle, Chris Allen, John & Sindy Avery have all been a huge part of the success of all 120 tournament days to date at registration and a multitude of additional tournament task.  
11. Finally, the #1 goal of this tournament has always been focused on supporting all charity golf tournaments held in San Diego County.  We're proud to say we have given FREE Golfer invites (12 per charity), to 200+ charities annually for the past 11 years.  Giving back in this way has benefited our local charities & golf community in ways that are difficult to quantify but, we do know every year we have a waiting list trying to fit in all of the golfers looking to be part of the Randy Jones Invitational.