COEUR d’ALENE — On the famed Floating Green and throughout The Coeur d’Alene Resort Golf Course, it was a field of dreams of sorts for the hundreds of spectators at the Showcase.

The nine-hole exhibition featured former hockey players such as Brett Hull, Wayne Gretzky and Brenden Morrow, 37, a former Dallas Stars winger for 13 seasons and Tampa Bay Lightning teammate of local star Tyler Johnson in 2014-15, who won the exhibition with a score of 3-under par over Hull’s 1-under. Former Montreal Canadians center Guy Carbonneau finished third at even par and former 11-year NHL veteran Ray Whitney was fourth at even. Carbonneau was third because his net score was 1-under par.

“Fritz and Ryan are a big part of this,” Morrow said, referring to Ryan Gee and Fritz Wolff, who are on the Board of Directors of the Community Cancer Fund. “Anytime we want to help out, we will. It was a lot of fun, it was a beautiful day. We are fortunate to be able to give our time.”

There were also ex-baseball players like Fred McGriff and Shane Victorino, and of course, Shadle Park High and Washington State product, former Washington Redskins quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Mark Rypien, who showed his pride of his alma mater with a red and silver golf bag that simply said “Cougs.”

Throw in Spokane-raised SportsCenter anchor Neil Everett, a Lewis and Clark High product as a lively announcer poking fun at some of the players and it was a Northwest-based fundraiser to be savored. Everett, 54, also spent some of his childhood in a cabin in Hayden Lake.

With Hull leading nearly the entire way with a score of 2-under to Morrow’s 1-under, Morrow nailed the shot of the event on the second-to-last hole. On the par-4, 368-yard 13th hole, Morrow’s tee shot landed on the front of the green and nearly 30 feet away from the hole. Morrow nailed the long putt for eagle and made it look easy, while Hull, who was in his foursome and owns a summer home at Gozzer Ranch in Harrison, yelled a supportive “Awesome!” This year, Hull, a two-time Stanley Cup champion and a Hockey Hall of Famer, will be a studio analyst for ESPN during the World Cup of Hockey in Sept. 17 through Oct. 1.

“I was playing it kind of, ‘don’t get too aggressive,’” Hull said. “I thought I’d make a bogey or par and I was sure he (Morrow) was going to make birdie and it would’ve been tied going into the last hole. It was awesome, so fun. We’re a part of the community.”

The event was part of a fundraiser which, in its third year, raised more than $1.8 million for the Community Cancer Fund, a locally-based organization that raises money to fight cancer in the Inland Northwest. Ryan Gee of Gee Automotive and Fritz Wolff are on the Board of Directors of the CCF, whose slogan was “I Am.” Saturday’s tourney included three foursomes and one threesome of celebrities.

“This is my second (Showcase) time in three years,” Rypien said. “I think the energy they have, the type of people that are supporting this event and the money they are raising is phenomenal. To help Camp Goodtimes (in Deer Park, Wash.), to help cancer research to help our community. I think Ryan (Gee) hit the nail on the head (Friday), when he said, ‘Why not us? Why can’t we raise the dollars the big-time cities raise? We’ve done that with Hoopfest, we’ve done that with Bloomsday, we’ve gone off the charts, two of the biggest events. The Ironman here, this area here has done some phenomenal things. Why not have a fundraiser that raises a lot of money. We’re helping with quality care for children through Sacred Heart through children who are going through cancer and it helps with families, makes their lives a little easier and it ties in well.”

Wayne Gretzky, considered the greatest player in the history of the NHL next to Gordie Howe, who died this year, played and shot an 11-over par. His ball he hit toward the Floating Green missed and landed in the water, but he enjoyed the course and the event.

“I missed it. I told my ball to hold its breath,” Gretzky said of his tee shot on the Floating Green hole — the final hole of the event.

“It’s really something special and it’s just a nice day,” he said of the event. “It’s a great cause and all the professional athletes in every sport, they’re all good guys.

Then there was Rypien, who finished fifth with a score of 1-over par as part of the first foursome — Rypien, whose nephew Brett Rypien is the starting quarterback at Boise State.

As for Everett, who predominantly was at the first and 14th and last holes, it was his third Showcase and first as its on-course announcer. He’s been with ESPN since 2000.

“I’ve been fortunate enough to get invited all three times,” Everett said. “To be on the ground floor of something as great as this is quite an honor. What a great life I’m into, so I don’t know why it’s me, but I’m glad it is.”

In the past, there have been four PGA Tour golfers who were paired with celebrities. But with the PGA Championship this weekend, plus the Olympics, FedEx Cup and the Ryder Cup in the upcoming weeks, finding pros to find time in their schedules to show up was understandably difficult. On Friday, there was a celebrity pro-am.

“It’s been a fantastic couple of days,” said Jerid Keefer, executive director and co-founder of the Community Cancer Fund. “We had a great start yesterday with the corporate event. We had a great time last night. Today was an awesome extension of that. The support of the celebrities, the support from the sponsors and the whole community at large was great. We made a few changes here, at the end of the day, that was why (there were no professional golfers). So we stepped back, looked at all the different schedules and the reality of it was, it was a good year for us to do a celebrity-driven event. We had a great roster of guys who came out and helped us. It’s even better because they’re competitors, they’re in it for the cause and they’re all about that too.”

LOW GROSS — 1, Brenden Morrow, -3. 2, Brett Hull, -1. 3, Guy Carbonneau, even. 4, Ray Whitney, even. 5, Mark Rypien, +1. 6, Ryan Longwell, +2. 7, Doug Weight, +4. 8, Sheldon Souray, +4. 9, Neil Lomax, +6. 10, Fred McGriff, +9. 11, Jim Edmonds, +10. 12, Gretzky, +11. 13, Kelly Chase, +12. 14, Shane Victorino, +13. 15, Bruce Bowen, +14.

LOW NET — 1, Morrow, -3. 2, Hull, -1. 3, Carbonneau, -1. 4, Weight, even. 5, Souray, even. 6, Rypien, +1. 7, Longwell, +1. 8, Lomas, +3. 9, Edmonds, +3. 10, McGriff, +4. 11, Gretzky, +6, 12, Chase, +7. 13, Victorino, +14. 14, Bowen, +16.