Glenmore hosts An Evening with Bob Rotella & Tony Bennett

By Jerry Ratcliffe

If you’ve always wondered what it would be like to get into the minds of Tony Bennett, Rory McIlroy, LeBron James, Tom Kite, Ernie Els, John Calipari, Darren Clarke, Keegan Bradley, then today’s your lucky day.

The Club at Glenmore is hosting a special night: “An Evening with Dr. Bob Rotella & Coach Tony Bennett: A Champion’s Mindset,” on Thursday, Sept. 18 at 6 p.m.

Tickets are now on sale for $100: contact Michelle Delang Conner at 434-466-1148.

Glenmore is also hosting the 2025 Rotella-Fedder Golf Classic on Oct. 20 with a 1 p.m. shotgun. See more information below.

Bennett needs no introduction after a historic coaching career at Virginia, where he guided the Cavaliers to their first national championship in 2019. He was a three-time national coach of the year, four-time ACC coach of the year and retired as UVA’s all-time wins leader.

Rotella is regarded as the world’s premier sports psychologist, who has worked with some of professional golf’s most celebrated names, including golfers who have a collective 75 Majors titles. While Rotella is known most for his work with golfers, he has also worked with athletes and coaches in college sports, the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball. He has also helped leaders and executives among some of the nation’s top industries.

These two giants in the sports world will share their thoughts on a champion’s mentality and take attendees behind the scenes in what is required to rise to the occasion, block out the noise, excel in the face of adversity, how to handle defeat and much more.

Everyone recalls the national attention Bennett received on how he handled perhaps his most disappointing moment in 2018 when his No. 1 seeded UVA team became the first to lose to a No. 16 seed, ironically Ryan Odom’s UMBC team, and how he used that moment to inspire his team to claim the national crown in 2019.

Rotella wrote in his book “How Champions Think,” that: “The reality is that if your dream is to accomplish something awesome, it’s not going to be easy. If it were easy, everyone would be doing it. People who go for greatness are going to get knocked down a lot. They’ll have difficult times. They’ll struggle with doubt and uncertainty.

“People around them will question the wisdom of their quest. The issue is not whether you’ll fail, because you will. It’s whether you’ll get back up and keep going. It’s whether you can sustain your self-confidence and your belief in yourself and keep bouncing back. Failure is only final when you stop striving.”

Proceeds benefit the ISO Excellence Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to creating a more inclusive future through sports and academics to empower the next generation. The ISO is headquartered at Glenmore and its efforts are focused on golf, with a goal to expand to other sports as well and to create its own campus outside of Glenmore.

The Rotella-Fedder Golf Classic set for Oct. 20 is open to golfers and sponsors, which includes a pre-game clinic with Rotella and much more (see rotellafedder.com/about-us, or contact Michelle Delang Conner at 434-466-1148).

Foursomes are $1,800 and single players can enter for a $450 fee.

Sponsorships are available at a number of levels from $3,500 to $15,000. The tournament also supports the ISO Excellence Foundation.