On Saturday (April 5th), chart-topping country music star and ACM Award nominee Darius Rucker hosted the ACM Lifting Lives® Celebrity Golf Classic at TPC Las Vegas for the third consecutive year. The ACM Lifting Lives® Celebrity Golf Classic—the eighth held since 2004—brought together country music artists David Nail, Charles Kelley, Scotty McCreery, Frankie Ballard, Jake Owen and Cole Swindell as well as other members of the music community. This star-studded scramble tournament helped raise funds and awareness for ACM Lifting Lives’ Diane Holcomb Emergency Relief Fund, which provides immediate relief to those in need in the music industry.
The ACM Lifting Lives Celebrity Golf Classic took place in conjunction with “The Week Vegas Goes Country®,”leading up to the 49th ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS, a star-studded event produced for television by dick clark productions, that will be broadcast LIVE from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Sunday, April 6, 2014 at 8:00 PM live ET/delayed PT on the CBS Television Network.