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Expect Nome Putters at Golf Shops in April 2012

PING Introduces Nome Putter

PHOENIX, Arizona – PING officially introduced its new Nome™ putter on March 1st, but it made headlines earlier than that when PING Staff Member Hunter Mahan won the Tucson’s WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship using a Nome that he put into play on Monday of the event.

“It felt great immediately and it gave me a lot of confidence so I could just trust my aim and stroke the ball freely,” said Mahan, who added the putter to his bag after an alignment-testing session with PING’s Senior Player Development Manager Matt Rollins. “Long putts, big-breaking putts. I felt like I could make just about any putt I looked at.” All week in interviews, he credited the Nome for his exceptional putting on the fast, undulating greens that yielded him 35 birdies.

The putter, which is precision milled from high-grade aluminum and features tungsten weighting in the sole, arrives in golf shops around the world beginning in early April and is available in standard and belly-length versions.

The Nome’s ability to improve aim is a result of the putter’s black alignment bar and contrasting white sightline. Its extreme forgiveness comes from a lightweight, high-grade aluminum frame featuring tungsten sole weighting that optimizes the CG position and elevates MOI, making the Nome highly accurate. Three different shaft bends are available to fit Straight, Slight Arc, or Strong Arc putting strokes.

Golfers can determine their stroke type using the iPING Fit™ feature on the club maker’s new iPING™ putter app, a free download through the App Store™. Matching the putter model with stroke type is a new form of putter fitting that PING calls Fit For Stroke™. The company’s research has found that when the putter model matches a player’s stroke type, the putting stroke becomes more consistent which is a primary key to making more putts. Visit PING.com

Nome Technical specifications:
– Nome 355 grams, standard version (Available early April 2012)
– Nome 405 grams, belly version (Available late April 2012)
– Precision milled from high-grade aluminum and finished with a highly durable nano nickel coating
– Fit For Stroke: Three shaft bends designed to match Straight, Slight Arc, and Strong Arc putting strokes
– Available RH and LH
– U.S. MSRP: Standard-length model = $270.00; Belly model = $320.00

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February 26, 2012
LPGA Legends TOUR Event To Be Held In Sun City West

Legends Tour Brings Hall Of Famers To Grandview Golf Course

BOSTON, February 14, 2012 – At least five World Golf Hall of Fame members will be in the field when the Legends Tour, the LPGA’s official tour for professionals age 45 and over, launches its 2012 season this April in the Greater Phoenix area.

Walgreens LPGA Charity Golf Classic

The Legends Tour will kick off the year with the inaugural Walgreens Charity Classic in Sun City West. The tournament will be staged from April 27-29, at Grandview Golf Course and will feature LPGA and World Golf Hall of Famers Amy Alcott, Pat Bradley, Patty Sheehan, and Phoenix-area resident Betsy King.

Hollis Stacy, who will be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in May, also will be in the field. Stacy won 18 tournaments in 26 years on the LPGA Tour, including three U.S. Women’s Open titles.

“The LPGA Legends Tour is pleased to bring this new tournament to Sun City West,” said Legends Tour CEO Jane Blalock. “The Greater Phoenix community has hosted the LPGA for many years and will once again be able to welcome some of the greatest names in women’s golf at this event. We are very proud to partner with Walgreens at this tournament to help raise funds for the Phoenix Children’s Hospital.”

Arizona-based Legends Tour players in the field also include France’s Anne-Marie Palli and Sherri Turner, both of Phoenix, and Tucson residents Cindy Rarick and Christa Johnson. Other headliners in the field will include former LPGA stars Rosie Jones, Liselotte Neumann, Sherri Steinhauer and Val Skinner, who currently works as an on-course reporter for The Golf Channel.

The Walgreens Charity Classic will feature a purse of $200,000 with a field of 40 players. A pro-am is set for Friday, April 27, followed by 36 holes of stroke-play competition on Saturday and Sunday, April 28-29. Tee times will start each day at 9 a.m.

The Phoenix Children’s Hospital will serve as the tournament’s charity, benefiting from all tournament proceeds. Tickets are $10 each day, with kids 17-under admitted free. Active military are also admitted free with a current ID.

For more information, visit thelegendstour.com. Tickets can be purchased via the website or at local Walgreen’s stores beginning March 1, 2012.

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February 22, 2012
Jim McLean Golf School Opens at SunRidge Canyon

Jim McLean Gof School – SunRidge Canyon Golf Course

Fountain Hills, Arizona – Greater Scottsdale’s list of Ivy League golf schools just became more prestigious with the debut of the Jim McLean Golf School at the Keith Foster-designed SunRidge Canyon Golf Club . The instruction facility is located on SunRidge Canyon’s practice facility with a permanent structure to be built in 2012 to house the school activities. McLean’s stable of instructors began teaching students in November 2011 with frequent visits from McLean as his calendar permits.

Jim McLean has long been recognized as one of the top golf instructors in the world, named 1994 PGA Teacher of The Year, and currently ranked No.3 by Golf Digest, among many other distinctions. Along with the world’s best database of golf swing clips and video content, Jim McLean has completed more than 35 years of research on the golf swing.

Using corridors of success and safety zones, Jim McLean’s teaching system can accommodate a variety of golf swings. Every student that attends a Jim McLean golf school or lesson will improve their game and leave with an organized plan for improvement. On average students improve their handicap by 4.6 strokes after taking a golf school program. Golf Schools feature The 8-Step Swing®, The Slot Swing™, X-Factor®, Y-Factor™, and Powerline.

Jim McLean & SunRidge Owners Don & Cindy Misheff

McLean’s stable of instructors teaches golfers how to improve their game with lessons ranging from a 30-minute “pre/post round” golf lesson to a one-day “ultimate” golf program, which includes seven hours of instruction, playtime and analysis.

In addition, the school offers two- and three-day programs that fully immerse students into McLean’s cutting-edge game-improvement methods.

Game improvement is available for everyone’s budget as prices range from $70 to $1,872. For more information, click on: http://sunridgegolf.com/jim-mclean-golf-school/

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February 16, 2012
Talking Stick Golf Course To Host “Business Golf” Seminar

Talking Stick Golf Club

Scottsdale, Arizona – Golf For Cause, 85 Broads Phoenix and NAWMBA are hosting “Understanding Golf for Your Business,” a seminar for professional women who want to develop business relationships through golf.

The seminar includes a casual golf experience with a mentor in each foursome, designed especially for newer golfers to help them feel at ease on the tees, as well as a presentation on capitalizing on the business success to be had on the golf course

The event takes at Talking Stick Golf Club in Scottsdale on Thursday, March 29, 2012 from 3-5:30pm. There is also an optional skills clinic from 1:30 – 2:15pm. Seminar cost is $75 per person and an additional $15 if you take part in the skills clinic.

There are several ways to register, including:

On-line: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2946191137

By calling: 224-805-8962

Email: Kathy@thebreakawayteam.com

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February 16, 2012
Arizona Golf – The Boulders Waldorf Astoria Resort Offers “One for All” Package

Boulders Resort, Carefree, Arizona

Carefree, Arizona – The Boulders, a Waldorf Astoria Resort, is providing the perfect reason to wake up and smell the roses – or the fresh double-cut greens – as Scottsdale/Carefree welcomes world-class springtime golf.

The Resort’s One for All package lets you enjoy golf daily on the resort’s two award-winning, 18-hole golf courses designed by Jay Morrish. Nestled in the heart of the Sonoran Desert, the demanding courses provide golfers with panoramic views of the breathtaking scenery unique to the greater Scottsdale area, including the 12 million-year-old granite boulders scattered about the Boulders desert setting.

In addition to unlimited golf, enjoy luxurious accommodations in one of several accommodation offerings, range privileges and unlimited access to tennis facilities, access to the spa facilities, and one 50-minute Golden Door massage per night.

If a beautiful and tranquil setting, amazing golf and lots of pampering sound like what you need, just telephone 888.579.2631 or visit www.theboulders.com.

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February 15, 2012
Antigua Official Apparel for RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup

PEORIA, ARIZ. – The Antigua Group, Inc.- one of the nation’s leading designers and marketers of genuine golf and sports apparel under the distinguished Antigua brand-has been named the official apparel of the 2nd Annual RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup.

Antigua Group

Antigua apparel and headwear will be used in all aspects of the 72-hole tournament, whose field of players will compete March 12-18 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Ariz.

Players in the Founders Cup will be competing for a $1.5 million dollar purse as well as a promise of $500,000 to be donated to the LPGA-USGA Girls Golf Program.

“We are excited and honored by the chance to be an official supplier for the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup,” says Ron McPherson, President and CEO of Antigua. “The inaugural event was great, and the new 72-hole event for 2012 will be fantastic!”

About the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup

RR Donnelley, the LPGA and its players truly confirmed ’Why It’s Different Out Here’ in 2011, making golf history by not only remembering the women that made the LPGA a reality, but also by “paying-it-forward” and playing entirely for charity and the expansion of the Girls Golf program,” LPGA Commissioner Michael Whan said. “Next season, with RR Donnelley’s vision, we will prove that the Founders Cup sequel is even better than the original.”

Tickets can be purchased online at www.LPGAFounders.com or by calling1-888-LPGATIX (574-2849). Children 17 and under will receive free tournament admission with a ticketed adult. Active military members and their immediate families can receive free tournament admission when showing a valid active military ID at the main admission gate.

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February 15, 2012
Stanley’s Big Comeback Wins WM Phoenix Open

Huff’s Stuff Arizona Golf Blog – Arizona Golf Authority

2012 Waste Management Phoenix Open

It took Kyle Stanley just one week – seven long days – to erase the darkest moment of his career with the brightest. His first-ever win at the Waste Management Phoenix Open didn’t come easy, but as the resilient Stanley can attest, they hardly ever do.

Or just look to Spencer Levin, the latest casualty of a major meltdown on Sunday. Unbelievably, while Stanley had blown a five-shot lead in the final round to lose the Farmers Insurance Open, Levin one-upped him this time around by tossing away a six-shot advantage at the TPC Scottsdale.

Welcome to the gut-wrenching world of the PGA Tour, where Stanley emerged from under a cactus and out of a party tent on his last two holes to record one of game’s great reversals of fortune.

“That’s golf. It’s a crazy game,” said the 24-year-old Stanley, a second-year pro from the small town of Gig Harbor, Wash., who came from eight shots off the pace to equal the third-largest comeback in Tour history.

“I think you need to accept the fact that there’s going to be highs and there’s going to be lows. I’m just fortunate I have such a great team around me, especially my mom and dad. I don’t know what I would have done without them.”

Stanley grabbed the lead early on the back nine of this sunny Sunday, and ended up pouring in six birdies without a bogey for a 65 and winning total of 15-under par 269. Just as key, he made five straight pars to finish out his round and hold off a hard-charging Ben Crane, who ended up in second place, one shot back after a 66.

“I hit a couple of squirrel-ly tee shots, but my recovery shots were fantastic,” said Stanley, who miraculously chipped out from under a cactus and onto the green at No. 17, and then took a free drop before curling a pitching wedge onto the green at No. 18.

“I think the biggest challenge was seeing if I could put last week behind me, and I think I did.”

So did his moment in the sun erase the recent past? Stanley shook his head and said: “Not really. I’m never going to forget that, but I think it does make this one a lot sweeter.”

Thus the onus of the biggest demise of 2012 falls on Levin, a 27-year-old Californian who also was after his first victory in his third year on Tour. Unlike Stanley, who collapsed on the final hole at Torrey Pines with a triple bogey, Levin’s fall was slow and steady, as he birdied the third hole of the day to get to 1-under before three bogeys and a double spelled 75 and third place.

“You have a six-shot lead and lose, you gave it away. My hat’s off to Kyle, he played a great round,” conceded Levin, who followed up his 62 at Torrey Pines with a 63 in the second round at the TPC Scottsdale – the two best scores on Tour the past two weeks – but still couldn’t win.

Asked what he takes from the experience, both his and Stanley’s, Levin just shrugged in disbelief.

“That’s pretty awesome from what happened last week, to come back and win the very next week,” he said. “That shows he’s a hell of a player, obviously. “I guess it shows that you can recover from it. I think I will.”

Adding to the weirdness of the day, since the start of the 2010 season, no player has more rounds in the 60s on Tour than Levin, with 111. But when he needed one the most, the number was nowhere to be found.

But like Stanley said, it’s a crazy game.

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February 5, 2012
Arizona Golf’s Best Tour Pairing Grayhawk – TPC – Zona Hotel

ZONA Hotel & Suites Offers Arizona Golf “TOUR PACKAGE”

Home of the Waste Management Phoenix Open

Scottsdale Arizona – The golf planning professionals at Zona Hotel & Suites in Scottsdale know one round just isn’t enough. That’s why they have created the Zona Tour Package featuring two of Scottsdale’s best golf courses – Grayhawk and TPC Scottsdale.

The Tour Package includes four rounds of golf including one each on Grayhawk’s two great tracks, Raptor and Talon, as well as 18-hole loops at both the TPC Scottsdale Stadium and the TPC Champions course. Plus you’ll get to enjoy the great accommodations at Zona in a one-, two-, three- or four-bedroom suite.

Grayhawk Golf Club – Raptor Course

Should you have flexible travel plans, Zona will sweeten the deal by throwing in your fourth night accommodations at no charge if you arrive on Sunday. Pricing starts from $1,245 for single occupancy and $1,020 for double occupancy. For more information, call Tedd or Steve at 800-903-4057, or email golf@zonascottsdale.com

Visit http://www.zonascottsdale.com/scottsdale_golf/golf_packages.cfm for all the Tour Package details.

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Grayhawk Golf Club Raptor Course

Grayhawk Golf Club Talon Course

TPC Scottsdale Champions Course

TPC Scottsdale Stadium Course

Zona Hotel’s TOUR PACKAGE lets avid amateurs play where the pros play and stay where the pros stay.

February 4, 2012
TPC Scottsdale’s 4th Annual GOLF for GROCERIES Campaign Underway

TPC Scottsdale’s Holiday Program Aids the Homeless

From the Arizona Golf Authority AZGA Golf News Desk

SCOTTSDALE AZ — Charitable giving is common among professional and amateur golfers and the TPC Scottsdale is counting on that this holiday season as they kick off their holiday Golf for Groceries program.

“It is amazing how generous golfers are,” commented TPC Scottsdale’s Tiffany Nelson. “We started our Golf for Groceries program three years ago and in that short time our players have donated more than 20 tons of food to the Foothills Food Bank.”

The program is simple, during the month of December, any golfer donating either 5 canned good items or $25 in cash can play the TPC Scottsdale courses for the following rates:

$69 + tax at Champions Course

$59 + tax after 1:00 p.m.

(savings of 50% from non-resident rate)

$169 + tax at Stadium Course

$99 + tax after 1:00 p.m.

(Forecaddie included in $169 rate – 44% savings)

December 1st – December 22nd, 2011

And unlike a lot of special offers that are mired down with caveats in the fine-print, the Golf for Groceries deal is simple:

• The offer is good any day of the week

• You have a 7-day advance booking window

• 5 canned goods must be presented at the time of check-in or a $25 donation will be accepted

• Stadium course is cart path only

• Understandably, not all tee times will be offered at these rates

To take advantage of this terrific offer and support a very worthy cause, use the promo code Groceries.

Phone reservations can be made by calling (480) 585-4334.

If you prefer to book online, visit: http://channel.opencourse.com/?c=a0094a674cc6f67c&cs=1207&date=9/13/2011&days=2&players=4&pc=&rt=0&promocd=

December 2, 2011