A golf tournament that has been raising money for local towns and organizations for a decade in the southwest saw its final drive last weekend. 

The 10th-annual Zack Smith Charity Golf Tournament was split between the Maple Creek Golf Course and the Cypress Hills Golf Course. A total of 144 golfers participated in the tournament, including some familiar faces to Swift Current Broncos fans. 

Montreal Canadiens forward Dale Weise, Vegas Golden Knights forward Cody Eakin, and former NHLer and Stewart Valley native Travis Moen joined Maple Creek natives Zack Smith and Blake Fournier, who is a former member of the Swift Current Legionnaires.  

The tournament was able to bring in around $95,000 which Don Lewis, the co-chair of the tournament, hopes will bring in a net of over $60,000 that will be donated. 

"$8,400 is going towards the Maple Creek Discovery Centre," Lewis said when talking about where the money will go. "The EMS needs a stretcher that is very good, and it costs around eight to 10 thousand dollars. Then from there, we will split it between the community of Gull Lake and other organizations within Maple Creek." 

Lewis said that to see the impact that the tournament has made in the community is huge. He said the biggest highlight for him over the past decade hasn't been raising the money but seeing the fun that everybody is having. 

"Anybody that golfed in it had fun. It was simply about fun and fellowship, and that's the biggest memories that I'll ever have is everybody within the golf tournament visiting with each other." 

Lewis added that the tournament shows just how great of guy that Smith is and will never forget the memories made by the tournament. 

"10 years is a long time. There is lots of work to it, and Zack has a family coming now, and he's busy in the summertime, and we just thought it was done." 

Smith said that it's been a lot of work and felt that the tournament had run its course. 

"I kind of decided after last year that we were thinking about cutting it off at 10," the new Chicago Blackhawk said. "It's basically two guys that run it. It's been a lot of work for them over the past decade, so it felt like it was a good time to cut it off." 

Smith said that this will be the last annual tournament, and would be open to holding it again in the future. 

"It's was a blast to do it for ten years. It's pretty sad to go through the last annual tournament. Never saying we've never hold it again. If money needed to be raised for a certain project, we might bring it back. It was definitely a bittersweet tournament this year, but we had a great turnout this year and it was beautiful." 

Smith added that over the 10 years they've been able to raise around $300,000, which is something he is proud of.