Trump Million Dollar Invitational Becomes Co-Sanctioned US Pro Golf Tour Event
Greens Worldwide Incorporated (OTCBB GRWW) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with the officials of the Trump Million Dollar Invitational presented by TaylorMade (www.trumpmilliondollar.com ) for the event to become a co-sanctioned event on the 2006 US Pro Golf Tour. The top ten Tour Card members on the US Pro Golf Tour money list after the first two events on the 2006 Tour will be exempt from qualifying and will be fully sponsored into the event.
Hertford, NC, March 07, 2006 --(PR.com)-- Greens Worldwide Incorporated (OTCBB GRWW) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with the officials of the Trump Million Dollar Invitational presented by TaylorMade (www.trumpmilliondollar.com ) for the event to become a co-sanctioned event on the 2006 US Pro Golf Tour. The top ten Tour Card members on the US Pro Golf Tour money list after the first two events on the 2006 Tour will be exempt from qualifying and will be fully sponsored into the event. The Tour also reserved up to an additional ten playing positions for its tour card members. Details of the agreement will be provided to USPGT professionals, along with the rules of the competition prior to the first event of the 2006 Tour. As a result of the co-sanctioned status of the event, GRWW has committed to sponsor its qualifying players into the event with all expenses paid. The winner of this event could take home a $1,000,000 first prize.
The Trump Million Dollar Invitational presented by TaylorMade will be conducted May 21-26, 2006 at the Trump International Golf Club at Raffles Resort on Canouan Island in the Grenadines, with a potential purse of $1.5 million. The event will be telecast on ESPN and distributed worldwide. For more information on the event, visit www.trumpmilliondollar.com.
"I am thrilled that the top ten players on the US Pro Golf Tour money list after our first two events this year will get the chance of a lifetime to compete for the largest purse and first place prize of their careers, and we appreciate the courtesy that the Trump Organization and Innovative Media Solutions has extended to the US Pro Golf Tour," stated R. Thomas Kidd, Chief Executive Officer, Greens Worldwide.
The Trump Million Dollar Invitational presented by TaylorMade is a production of Manhattan Beach, CA-based Innovative Media Solutions (IMS), LLC and Winnercomm, Inc., America’s largest independent sports production company. Andy Batkin, CEO of IMS, noted, “We are delighted to partner with the US Pro Golf Tour in offering entry into this exceptional event to their top players. Anyone competing in this event is in for a thrilling golf experience on one of the world’s great golf courses in the paradise that is Canouan Island.”
The event is a three-day, 54-hole stroke play competition without the benefit of handicap. The players with the ten lowest scores will advance to the Grand Prize Matches on May 26, 2006. Ties in the 54-hole tournament will be broken by a playoff at the Trump International Golf Club and will continue until there are ten players left that will move on to the Grand Prize Match.
The ten Grand Prize Match finalists will compete in a nine-hole playoff where one player will be eliminated on each hole until there are only two players left, who will then play the final hole for the Grand Prize. Ties on each hole will be broken by participation in a skills competition by all players who are tied for the highest score on each hole until one player is eliminated. Skills shall be putting, chipping, sand shots and driving accuracy and will be chosen at the discretion of the tournament director and fully disclosed prior to the commencement of the Grand Prize Matches.
About Trump International Golf Club at Raffles Resort Canouan Island
Named “Best of the Best” in 2005 by Robb Report, the Trump International Golf Club at Raffles Resort is one of the Caribbean’s few world-class golf courses. Designed by the legendary Jim Fazio, the 18-hole, par 72 course demands accuracy and finesse. The course covers 140 acres along the sea front, flat coastal plain and carved hillsides above the bay and resort.
Raffles Resort Canouan Island is located on Canouan Island in the heart of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean. Opened in November 2004, the resort is part of a 1,200-acre private estate featuring secluded white sand beaches and surrounded by one of the world’s largest coral reefs. The resort was designed by renowned Italian architect Luigi Vietti and is owned by Canouan Resorts Development (CRD). Its signature RafflesAmrita Spa was named 2005 “Best of the Best Spa” by Robb Report, the international authority on the luxury lifestyle.
About Innovative Media Solutions and Winnercomm
The Trump Million Dollar Invitational presented by TaylorMade is a production of Manhattan Beach, CA-based Innovative Media Solutions, LLC and Winnercomm, Inc., America’s largest independent sports production company.
Innovative Media Solutions, LLC (IMS), based in Manhattan Beach, CA, develops unique, compelling and custom designed integrated media programs for major corporations to reach specific and very targeted demographics. IMS creates dynamic value-added events that effectively blend the use of TV, print, radio, online, database development, event marketing and hospitality. The unique synergy of IMS strategic resources empowers sponsors and advertisers to maximize their investments by transcending common advertising clutter and delivering focused product or service messages to the right audience at the right time.
Winnercomm, Inc. is America’s largest independent sports production, program development, marketing services and sales representation company with offices in Tulsa, Dallas, New York, Chicago and Nashville. Winnercomm-produced telecasts have won 12 Emmy Awards. The company produces over 1,000 hours of programming annually for ESPN and 13 other networks and owns the high-flying Skycam that has produced the unique overhead shots on ABC's Monday Night Football and ESPN's Sunday Night Football. Winnercomm programming includes horse racing (NTRA), professional rodeo (PRCA Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, Wrangler ProRodeo Winter and Summer Tours, Pace Picante Finales, Xtreme Bulls), soccer (MLS, U.S. Soccer), bowling (PBA), lacrosse (MLL), softball (ASA/USA World Cup of Softball), cheerleading and dance (Varsity Brands), golf (LPGA, Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational, People vs. the Pros, Trump Million Dollar Invitational), fishing (BASS), snowmobile and ATV racing (PowerSports Entertainment), hunting, sporting dogs, adventure and original entertainment.
About The U.S. Pro Golf Tour
The U.S. Pro Golf Tour is the country's premier intermediary professional golf tour. Our tour-caliber events feature former PGA golfers, players preparing for the Champions Tour, non-exempt professionals on the Champions Tour, celebrity challengers and professionals 18 and older gearing-up for the PGA Tour. The U.S. Pro Golf Tour conducts a Pro-Net competition for players with handicaps of all skill levels, 18 years and older, competing for substantial prize money in a tour-event atmosphere. All tournaments are weeklong events, and feature junior clinics, pro am events, media coverage, entertainment, electronic leader boards and hospitality, with local market charities benefiting from the events. The U.S. Pro Golf Tour is televised on The Golf Channel, featured in the program “54 Holes to Sunday”. For more information on the US Pro Golf Tour, phone 252.264.2064, or visit our website, www.usprogolftour.com.
About Greens Worldwide Incorporated
Greens Worldwide Incorporated is a vertically integrated sports marketing company engaged in golf events and companies involved in managing those events and is publicly traded under the stock symbol GRWW. In our continuing effort to develop a more cohesive and synergistic organization, we are structured in a way that allows all of our entities to utilize each other’s resources to the greatest extent possible. In addition, the Company’s strategic plan is to be able to deliver substantial value by providing multiple sports platforms and media to leverage our partners advertising and promotional dollars, while delivering the finest entertainment opportunities to retain and build customers. For our non-sports businesses, we will utilize the media and promotional benefits of our media platforms in Television, Radio, and Print, together with Internet Television and other like strategic relationships, to grow our consolidated revenues. The Company intends to acquire profitable sports organizations and sports related firms, together with other businesses that would benefit from the synergy the Company provides.
Important Information About Forward-Looking Statements
All statements in this news release that are other than statements of historical facts are forward-looking statements, which contain our current expectations about our future results. Forward-looking statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties. We have attempted to identify any forward-looking statements by using words such as "anticipates", "believes", "could", "expects", "intends", "may", "should" and other similar expressions. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in all of our forward-looking statements are reasonable, we can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. A number of factors may affect our future results and may cause those results to differ materially from those indicated in any forward-looking statements made by us or on our behalf. Such factors include our limited operating history; our need for significant capital to finance internal growth as well as strategic acquisitions; our ability to attract and retain key employees and strategic partners; our ability to achieve and maintain profitability; fluctuations in the trading price and volume of our stock; competition from other providers of similar products and services; and other unanticipated future events and conditions.
For more information,
Contact the Tour Office at
252.264.2064
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The Trump Million Dollar Invitational presented by TaylorMade will be conducted May 21-26, 2006 at the Trump International Golf Club at Raffles Resort on Canouan Island in the Grenadines, with a potential purse of $1.5 million. The event will be telecast on ESPN and distributed worldwide. For more information on the event, visit www.trumpmilliondollar.com.
"I am thrilled that the top ten players on the US Pro Golf Tour money list after our first two events this year will get the chance of a lifetime to compete for the largest purse and first place prize of their careers, and we appreciate the courtesy that the Trump Organization and Innovative Media Solutions has extended to the US Pro Golf Tour," stated R. Thomas Kidd, Chief Executive Officer, Greens Worldwide.
The Trump Million Dollar Invitational presented by TaylorMade is a production of Manhattan Beach, CA-based Innovative Media Solutions (IMS), LLC and Winnercomm, Inc., America’s largest independent sports production company. Andy Batkin, CEO of IMS, noted, “We are delighted to partner with the US Pro Golf Tour in offering entry into this exceptional event to their top players. Anyone competing in this event is in for a thrilling golf experience on one of the world’s great golf courses in the paradise that is Canouan Island.”
The event is a three-day, 54-hole stroke play competition without the benefit of handicap. The players with the ten lowest scores will advance to the Grand Prize Matches on May 26, 2006. Ties in the 54-hole tournament will be broken by a playoff at the Trump International Golf Club and will continue until there are ten players left that will move on to the Grand Prize Match.
The ten Grand Prize Match finalists will compete in a nine-hole playoff where one player will be eliminated on each hole until there are only two players left, who will then play the final hole for the Grand Prize. Ties on each hole will be broken by participation in a skills competition by all players who are tied for the highest score on each hole until one player is eliminated. Skills shall be putting, chipping, sand shots and driving accuracy and will be chosen at the discretion of the tournament director and fully disclosed prior to the commencement of the Grand Prize Matches.
About Trump International Golf Club at Raffles Resort Canouan Island
Named “Best of the Best” in 2005 by Robb Report, the Trump International Golf Club at Raffles Resort is one of the Caribbean’s few world-class golf courses. Designed by the legendary Jim Fazio, the 18-hole, par 72 course demands accuracy and finesse. The course covers 140 acres along the sea front, flat coastal plain and carved hillsides above the bay and resort.
Raffles Resort Canouan Island is located on Canouan Island in the heart of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean. Opened in November 2004, the resort is part of a 1,200-acre private estate featuring secluded white sand beaches and surrounded by one of the world’s largest coral reefs. The resort was designed by renowned Italian architect Luigi Vietti and is owned by Canouan Resorts Development (CRD). Its signature RafflesAmrita Spa was named 2005 “Best of the Best Spa” by Robb Report, the international authority on the luxury lifestyle.
About Innovative Media Solutions and Winnercomm
The Trump Million Dollar Invitational presented by TaylorMade is a production of Manhattan Beach, CA-based Innovative Media Solutions, LLC and Winnercomm, Inc., America’s largest independent sports production company.
Innovative Media Solutions, LLC (IMS), based in Manhattan Beach, CA, develops unique, compelling and custom designed integrated media programs for major corporations to reach specific and very targeted demographics. IMS creates dynamic value-added events that effectively blend the use of TV, print, radio, online, database development, event marketing and hospitality. The unique synergy of IMS strategic resources empowers sponsors and advertisers to maximize their investments by transcending common advertising clutter and delivering focused product or service messages to the right audience at the right time.
Winnercomm, Inc. is America’s largest independent sports production, program development, marketing services and sales representation company with offices in Tulsa, Dallas, New York, Chicago and Nashville. Winnercomm-produced telecasts have won 12 Emmy Awards. The company produces over 1,000 hours of programming annually for ESPN and 13 other networks and owns the high-flying Skycam that has produced the unique overhead shots on ABC's Monday Night Football and ESPN's Sunday Night Football. Winnercomm programming includes horse racing (NTRA), professional rodeo (PRCA Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, Wrangler ProRodeo Winter and Summer Tours, Pace Picante Finales, Xtreme Bulls), soccer (MLS, U.S. Soccer), bowling (PBA), lacrosse (MLL), softball (ASA/USA World Cup of Softball), cheerleading and dance (Varsity Brands), golf (LPGA, Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational, People vs. the Pros, Trump Million Dollar Invitational), fishing (BASS), snowmobile and ATV racing (PowerSports Entertainment), hunting, sporting dogs, adventure and original entertainment.
About The U.S. Pro Golf Tour
The U.S. Pro Golf Tour is the country's premier intermediary professional golf tour. Our tour-caliber events feature former PGA golfers, players preparing for the Champions Tour, non-exempt professionals on the Champions Tour, celebrity challengers and professionals 18 and older gearing-up for the PGA Tour. The U.S. Pro Golf Tour conducts a Pro-Net competition for players with handicaps of all skill levels, 18 years and older, competing for substantial prize money in a tour-event atmosphere. All tournaments are weeklong events, and feature junior clinics, pro am events, media coverage, entertainment, electronic leader boards and hospitality, with local market charities benefiting from the events. The U.S. Pro Golf Tour is televised on The Golf Channel, featured in the program “54 Holes to Sunday”. For more information on the US Pro Golf Tour, phone 252.264.2064, or visit our website, www.usprogolftour.com.
About Greens Worldwide Incorporated
Greens Worldwide Incorporated is a vertically integrated sports marketing company engaged in golf events and companies involved in managing those events and is publicly traded under the stock symbol GRWW. In our continuing effort to develop a more cohesive and synergistic organization, we are structured in a way that allows all of our entities to utilize each other’s resources to the greatest extent possible. In addition, the Company’s strategic plan is to be able to deliver substantial value by providing multiple sports platforms and media to leverage our partners advertising and promotional dollars, while delivering the finest entertainment opportunities to retain and build customers. For our non-sports businesses, we will utilize the media and promotional benefits of our media platforms in Television, Radio, and Print, together with Internet Television and other like strategic relationships, to grow our consolidated revenues. The Company intends to acquire profitable sports organizations and sports related firms, together with other businesses that would benefit from the synergy the Company provides.
Important Information About Forward-Looking Statements
All statements in this news release that are other than statements of historical facts are forward-looking statements, which contain our current expectations about our future results. Forward-looking statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties. We have attempted to identify any forward-looking statements by using words such as "anticipates", "believes", "could", "expects", "intends", "may", "should" and other similar expressions. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in all of our forward-looking statements are reasonable, we can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. A number of factors may affect our future results and may cause those results to differ materially from those indicated in any forward-looking statements made by us or on our behalf. Such factors include our limited operating history; our need for significant capital to finance internal growth as well as strategic acquisitions; our ability to attract and retain key employees and strategic partners; our ability to achieve and maintain profitability; fluctuations in the trading price and volume of our stock; competition from other providers of similar products and services; and other unanticipated future events and conditions.
For more information,
Contact the Tour Office at
252.264.2064
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