1995 Craftsman Truck Series Champion, Mike Skinner will deal out over $104,000 to local Daytona Beach charities in the next week after an extremely successful first annual charity golf and poker tournament held on September 5th, 2006 at Spruce Creek Country Club in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Fellow Craftsman Truck Series drivers Rick Crawford, Steve Park, and Ron Hornady along with Nextel Cup favorite Mark Martin, as well as Platinum-Selling/Singer and Song Writer Edwin McCain and World Series of Poker Champion Brian Wilson gave up their Labor Day holiday to raise money for The Second Chance Animal Rescue, Greyhound Pets of American and Volusia County Council on Aging - Meals on Wheels program. Celebrities arrived Monday afternoon to ensure an early Tuesday morning 8:30 am tee-off, only to rush to a 3 pm Texas Hold'em Poker stand off - The tournament was sold out with 128 golfers and over 85 poker players.
Crawford and Hornaday started the day with a fifth place finish in the golf scramble style format. That normally would not be such a great position in a tournament, but in the Toyota Tundra Skinner Round-up, fifth place wins tickets to the 2007 Daytona Craftsman Truck Series race along with Mike Skinner No. 5 diecast and ballcap. Since Hornaday and Crawford hope to run such race in February, and don't plan on wearing Skinner merchandise - their prizes were relinquished to another golfing foursome.
The action on the celebrity poker table was just as exciting when Steve Park out bluffed NASCAR Vice President of Corporate Communications,Jim Hunter, for the first annual Poker Celebrity Championship Title.