The tenth annual Fultondale Senior Center Golf Classic will be on April 30 at the Highland Park Golf Course in Birmingham.

The proceeds go to the Fultondale Senior Center, and it is their biggest fundraiser, according to the senior center’s director, Dorothy Bird.

“We totally depend on it,” said Bird.

The tournament raises most of its money through corporate sponsorships and individual entry fees of $100 per player. $300 dollars will buy a hole sponsorship, which gets a company logo on the hole’s flag.

There is also a $1,000 corporate sponsorship package that buys entry fees for four players and an advanced sponsorship that garners extra recognition in addition to the hole flag. They also accept donations of money and door prizes, and they sell mulligans (a do-over in golf) for five dollars.

“It’s a way I can bring money into the senior citizens,” said Fultondale mayor Jim Lowery. “They have 80-plus seniors who eat and play games at the senior center every day, and this money helps them with that.”

The senior center also uses the money to improve the building and grounds. In past years, the money has helped to build a sunroom and a drop-off port that protects senior citizens from bad weather when they are arriving or leaving the senior center.

It also bought a Nintendo Wii and a new television. Lowery said the money is put into a city account and audited for the seniors’ safety.

The tournament usually attracts around 60 players, but last year the tournament had almost 100.

“We made about $15,000 last year… We usually try to clear $10,000. We’re hoping to do it better than we have in past years, but with the economy you never know,” said Sue McKay, an assistant to Mayor Lowery who helps organize the tournament.

The tournament is a four-person “scramble,” meaning that teams decide which of the four team members’ shots was best on each hole, and then use the shot for that hole’s score.

It starts at 8 a.m. with a “shotgun start,” in which all the teams tee off from different holes. Lunch will be served after the tournament ends.

To sign up for the tournament or purchase a sponsorship, call the mayor’s office at 841-4481.