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The PGA Tour’s Champions Tour, in conjunction with the Gulf Coast Company Council, announced the addition of a new tournament to the Champions Tour routine for 2010 — the Mississippi Gulf Resort Traditional, which will be held April 26-May possibly 2.
The tournament will attribute 3 days of competitive play and a Pro-Am, as well as several special occasions such as a Junior Pro-Am and Junior Clinic. Champions Tour favorites Hal Sutton, Loren Roberts, Fred Funk, Jay Haas, Bernard Langer, Tom Watson, Hale Irwin, Fuzzy Zoeller and more are anticipated to compete in the tournament.
“The Gulf Coast Enterprise Council has a vision of seeing the Mississippi Gulf Coast become a Tier One particular tourism location,” says Anthony Topazi, chairman of the Gulf Coast Business Council. “Achievement of this kind of an ambitious purpose calls for that we have nationally acknowledged events and attractions. The Champions Tour is a signature event for any region of this nation and is a considerable step in becoming a Tier One particular destination. This Tournament will showcase the Mississippi Gulf Coast’s premier golf, fishing and resort amenities on a national and planet-wide basis.”
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The tournament will be played at Fallen Oak Golf Course, a Tom Fazio-intended course that features streams and marshland as nicely as pecan and magnolia groves. The course features dramatic elevation changes and more than four,000 stately oaks, magnolias, pines and other hardwood trees. In much less than 3 many years, Fallen Oak has been acknowledged as one of the best new programs in the nation, garnering 12 national honors. The most latest is arguably one particular of the most prestigious: a spot in the top-20 of the elite, all-access Golf Digest’s “America’s 100 Greatest Public Golf Programs,” where Fallen Oak Golf Course debuted at a respectable No. 19.
“Fallen Oak was constructed with the intention of difficult golfers of all talents and handicaps,” says George P. Corchis Jr., president and CEO of MGM Mirage’s Mississippi Operations, which owns Fallen Oak. “It tested the likes of Ryder Cup captains Paul Azinger and Nick Faldo throughout last year’s ‘Captain’s Challenge.’ Now, we appear forward to seeing how Fallen Oak will stand up to some of the other legends of the game. Knowing this course and how unique it is, I have no doubt that these unbelievable gamers will come across a thorough test of their video games when they play it subsequent spring.”
About the Champions Tour
The Champions Tour is a tax-exempt membership organization of specialist golfers age 50 and older. Conceived in 1980 as the Senior PGA Tour, it started out with just 4 occasions and purses totaling five,000. The Champions Tour carried out 25 official Charles Schwab Cup events supplying .9 million in prize funds in 2009 and its highest average purse ever of .96 million. The Champions Tour’s major goal is to provide substantial competitive and earnings opportunities for players age 50 and older to safeguard the integrity of the game and to aid grow the reach of the game in the United States and around the planet. In addition to offering competitive possibilities for its membership, Champions Tour events also produce significant sums of income for charity.
The tournament will be broadcast on Golf Channel, which reaches an estimated 81.5 million households in the United States and an extra 86 million households in 112 countries close to the world. It is anticipated that the tournament will draw volunteers and ticket buyers from around the country as well, primarily based on information from other Champions Tour occasions.
The economic foundation of the tournament was established by a consortium of corporations, including the Gulf Coast Company Council, Beau Rivage, IP, Grand Biloxi, Island View, Challenging Rock, Habitat for Humanity, Cellular South, the State of Mississippi, Roy Anderson Corp, Yates Construction, Hancock Bank and Southern Company, as effectively as Harrison and Hancock County’s Tourism Commissions.
Operating as a 501c3, the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic with donate all charitable dollars to Habitat for Humanity Mississippi Gulf Coast Inc.
“We are proud of the way our community has come with each other to make this take place, and we are especially delighted that Habitat for Humanity of the Gulf Coast will be the beneficiary of this tournament,” says chairman Topazi. “This organization continues to serve numerous families in our community in helping to rebuild properties and lives.”
“Our players search forward to this terrific addition to our 2010 Routine,” says Mike Stevens, president of the Champions Tour. “Mississippi has a rich background of hosting PGA Tour tournaments, and we’re delighted to group with these wonderful partners for the very first Champions Tour event in Mississippi.”