The Kleine Zeitung’s Martin Quendler-Trabesinger reports that Red Wings forward Marco Kasper and members of EC-KAC Klagenfurt of the ICE Hockey League took part in a charity golf tournament on Friday.
The Austrian German translation is a little garbled, and Quendler-Trabesinger focuses on naming everybody who participated in and sponsored the golf tournament, so the real “goodie” here consists of the pictures of Kasper and company on the course, which you’ll have to click here to see, and there’s a 3:08 embedded video chronicling the tournament. It’s in Austrian German, however, so it’s a little hard for me to translate.
Anyway, here’s a rough translation of the article:
KAC was called to the 1st Golf Trophy, and the greens were stormed
At the Moosburg golf course, they cut in favor of the young Red Jackets (Rotjacken). In addition to KAC stars and legends, NHL crack Marco Kasper was swinging his clubs. With many photos and videos.
“Foooore!” was heard at regular intervals all over the place at the Moosburg golf course. That’s a warning to the golf athletes for threatening ricochets. At the 1st KAC Golf-Trophy, played for the benefit of young people from the Red Jackets (tournament proceeds: 15,000 euros) was an indication that the sporting ambition was in the foreground ,and that each of the 29 participating players wanted to win the first ever trophy. The title was conquered by Laura Leitner, Lenny Leitner, Patrick Müller, Philipp Wilhelmer with a score of 59 total points. The individual successes were Jasmin Gaggl and Manuel Moser (“nearest to the pin”), as well as Nina Moser and Herbert Ulf Lasser (“longest drive”).
Of course, there was fun among the KAC golf friends, with President Johannes Schwaiger, General Manager Oliver Pilloni, and the organizers Walter Leirouz and Hans Sulzer, who didn’t miss out on the fun.
Even some isolated raindrops didn’t manage to cloud the mood.
In addition to many Red Jacket stars, such as Jan Murak, Nick Pettersen, Raphael Herburger and Thimo Nickl, ex-star Thomas Koch, NHL player Marco Kasper and legends Rudi Konig, Charly Pregl, Herbert Pock, Hans Schaunig and Walter Muhlbacher stood on the tees.
League president Herbert Hohenburger didn’t miss the golf tournament. They were all supplied by course boss Gerti Hofferer, golf pros Hannes Inzinger from Feinkost Freierss, food by Weingut Hudelist, sweets from baker Marin Wienerroither and hosting the winner by IngoBender of Jura Coffee
After the Hirter-Bieranstich, through the third “Sulzer-Hau”, Red Jackets coach Kirk Furey gave up-to-date insights into the team:
“We can hardly wait for the start and are looking forward to playing appealing ice hockey again.”
At the large raffle raffle, beautiful prizes of the sponsors’ car dealership Kropiunig-Puff, K&K kitchens, RZ pellets, PKE Elektronik, company Schmidts, Hannes Scarsini, Dr. Werner Arthofer and Bicycle Beinl were raffled off. With suckling pig, one or two hops drinks, tournament analysis and ice hockey technical simplification, the evening had a great atmosphere. Many of the enthusiastic attendees agreed to participate in the second edition of the KAC Golf Trophy 2026 immediately after the end of the tournament.
