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Celebrating 31 years

Join the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund for our 31st annual Celebrity Golf Classic on May 17-18, 2026.

This premier event is the foundation upon which the Jay Fund was built. Proceeds provide financial, emotional and practical support to families tackling childhood cancer.

The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund is proud to be a recipient of the

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Help us provide financial and emotional support to patients and families tackling childhood cancer by sponsoring this premier event, which features two days of socializing and golf at TPC Sawgrass. The fun kicks off on Sunday evening with a gala dinner featuring celebrity guests tableside. Attendees can bid on experiences, vacations, and sports memorabilia during competitive silent and live auctions. On
Monday the competition continues on the iconic PLAYERS Stadium Course with celebrities and sponsors enjoying 18 holes hosted by Coach Coughlin.

Below is a full list of our sponsorship levels and benefits.

Questions? Email Alex Garcia, Associate Director of Donor Engagement, at alex@tcjayfund.org.

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Celebrating 31 years

2026 marks 31 years of the Celebrity Golf Classic and the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund. The Celebrity Golf Classic will kick off our organization's 31st anniversary celebration.

Why 31? Our namesake Jay McGillis was #31 on the football team at Boston College, where he played under Coach Coughlin. He was diagnosed with cancer and passed away eight months later, and Coach Coughlin and his wife Judy saw firsthand the financial and emotional strain experienced by Jay's family. The Coughlins vowed that if they ever had a chance, they would help families like Jay's.

In 1994, the Jacksonville Jaguars hired Tom Coughlin to serve as their first head coach. It was an incredible professional opportunity for Coughlin—the chance to build an expansion franchise from the ground up. The new role also gave Coughlin and his wife Judy the platform they needed to fulfill their promise to help families who had a child with cancer.

They  launched the Tom Coughlin Jay Foundation with this golf tournament on May 5-6, 1996. Coughlin enlisted the help of his Jaguars employees, friends, neighbors and loyal sponsors to raise $38,000 that first year. Since then, this tournament and the foundation have grown exponentially. What started as a promise has led to over $34 million in support provided to over 6,700 families tackling childhood cancer.