Apr 27, 2009 - 04:05 PM

By Ingrid Saravia

DURHAM -- A Brooklin woman is organizing a golf tournament to raise money to help children with heart problems.

Wyatt's Warriors Second Annual Charity Golf Tournament will be held at the Newcastle Golf and Country Club June 6. It will benefit the cardiac unit at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children and the families of children affected by congenital heart defects.

Helping children with congenital heart defects is very close to Laura Celsie's own heart, since her two-year-old nephew, Wyatt, has spent most of his life at the critical cardiac care unit at Sick Kids Hospital. Wyatt was diagnosed with DiGeorge Syndrome and a long list of heart defects. He wasn't expected to survive but has proven a strong little boy.

"He always defies what the doctors say," Ms. Celsie said. "He is a smiley boy and he likes watching The Backyardigans and Madagascar."

About one in 70 babies in Canada is born with a heart problem, making it the most common birth defect. Some children can be treated with surgeries or transplants but even in the best-case scenario, a transplanted heart only lasts about 10 years.

Wyatt's Warriors golf tournament will take place Saturday, June 6. A shotgun start is at 12:30 p.m. with the ticket price at $130 per golfer.

Non-golfers are welcome to attend for a steak dinner.

To register call 289-404-1021 or e-mail wyatts-warriors@hotmail.com