In 1996, the former project manager, Juan J. Alarcon, founded the golf tournament called “Esmeralda Charity Cup”. Together with Martin Holz, former club champion of GC Lucerne and now club president, he organized the first charity golf tournament to finance projects for street children in Colombia.

The initiators of the Esmeralda Charity Cup were actively supported by the two Olympic prize winners Pirmin Zurbriggen and Max Julen. On the 6th of July 1996, the ski champions showed on the GC Lucerne that they are also successful sportsmen on the green lawn. CHF 10,000 were raised in 1996. With this amount, the pioneers of the Esmeralda tournament enabled 100 pupils from a slum in Cartagena to attend primary school for one year.