Grand total: $90,000.

Not bad for a single day's work.

That's how long it took the 2nd Annual Skookum Asphalt Charity Pro-Am golf tournament, held at the Mountain View Golf Club on Saturday, to collect toward the Yukon Hospital Foundation's MRI fund-raising campaign.

The second installment of the Pro-Am brought together 18 Canadian golf professionals and 144 local golfers in support of the Hospital Foundation's three-year campaign to bring a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine to Whitehorse General Hospital.

Yukon Hospital Foundation president Scott Kent said he knew organizers were on to a great concept when the Pro-Am was introduced last year.

"It's always a challenge in the first year trying to explain to people, when you have a new event like this, what it's all about.

"But for sure this year it really took off. And I could see it being even bigger and better next year. It's one of those things; it's the marquee golf event that people will put on their calendars now,” Kent said.

This year's total sky rocked some $71,000 from last year's sum of $19,000.

The live auction alone raised nearly $45,000 this year.

"From a Hospital Foundation perspective, this has really become our summer signature event to compliment the Northwestel Festival of Trees in the winter time,” Kent said.

"The big thing for us obviously is the generosity of our event sponsors and participants and the work of our volunteers to help us exceed our expectations.

"We're an awful lot closer to our fund-raising goal of $2 million after last weekend.”

Tournament champions were Mike Palamar, Mitch Malchow and Dan Hogberg of Whitehorse. Mike Haraguchi of the Capilano Golf and Country Club in West Vancouver was the winning professional.

The Yukon Hospital Foundation is raising money to purchase state-of-the-art diagnostic medial equipment for Whitehorse General Hospital. The foundation is in its second year of its three-year fund-raising campaign to purchase an MRI for the hospital that will see wait times for Yukon residents requiring non-critical MRI scan reduced from an average of six months to a matter of weeks.

"Skookum Asphalt is proud to host this annual event and contribute to our hospital's ability to provide Yukon residents with the very best health care possible right here at home,” said Darrell Stone, Skookum Asphalt division manager and Yukon Hospital Foundation chair.

Added Kent:

"A lot of complements go to the organizers of the event and to Skookum Asphalt and especially the golf course. From the participants I've talked to over the past couple days, everybody's very, very excited for next year. We've booked July 21.”