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Grand Golf Resorts of Florida to host two Legends Tour events

The newly formed Grand Golf Resorts of Florida, a Salamander Collection, will host two Legends Tour golf tournaments this fall: The Handa Cup at Reunion Resort in Orlando from November 2-4, and the Legends Tour Open Championship at Innisbrook Resort in Tampa Bay from November 9-11.

The Handa Cup is a 36-hole team tournament featuring USA Legends versus World Legends. Showcasing 12 players and two captains per team, it is the first year this annual international team competition will be played on Reunion Resort’s Palmer Course, an Arnold Palmer Signature Design. Team USA, the defending champion for six consecutive years under the direction of LPGA and World Golf Hall of Famer Kathy Whitworth, will be newly led in 2012 by JoAnn Carner, also a Hall of Fame member and former Solheim Cup Captain. The World Team will be captained for the second year in a row by Sweden’s Pia Nilsson, well-known guru of golf who counts LPGA Tour all-star Annika Sorenstam among her charges.

Just one week later, the ISPS Legends Tour Open Championship returns to Innisbrook Resort for the fourth consecutive year.  This 36-hole stroke play event is held on the resort’s challenging Island Course, designed by Larry Packard. The tournament, won last year by two-time LPGA Tour Champion Michele Redman, will feature 40 Legends Tour professionals competing for the only major championship on the Legends Tour. The final round falls on Veterans Day, and the tournament will honor members of the military with free admission and a special hospitality area on the ninth green. There will also be a paratrooper jump on Saturday morning and uniformed military personnel will walk with each pairing as standard bearers on Sunday.

Tickets for both events are on sale now at thelegendstour.com/tickets and can also be purchased at the tournament gate. Additionally, advance Legends Tour Open Championship tickets for Innisbrook are available to AAA members at a discount at any Florida branch. All ticket proceeds for the Legends Tour Open Championship benefit Girl Scouts of West Central Florida. Children under 17 and all military personnel with ID are admitted free to both events, which also feature complimentary parking and shuttles.

The Legends Tour is the Official Legends Tour of the LPGA. The tour began in 2000 by LPGA professionals to showcase the talents of some of the greatest women’s golfers of all time. Grand Golf Resorts of Florida was formed in 2011 by Salamander Hotels & Resorts, which was founded by Sheila C. Johnson. In addition to Innisbrook and Reunion resorts, the Grand Golf Resorts collection also features Hammock Beach Resort in Palm Coast and includes nine golf courses which play from the Gulf to the Atlantic.

For more information, visit www.thelegendstour.com

First Annual Northeast Golf Classic

September 22: First Annual Northeast Golf Classic
Hosted by: Saidiana Productions at Cedar Glen Golf Course, Saugus, MA
Format: Best ball.  Tee-off time: 8:30 AM

Ginger Howard Visits South Bend Memorial Children's Hospital

Prior to the end of summer our golf darling, Ginger Howard, along with several other Symetra Tour players took time out of their week in South Bend to participate in the Tour's Outside the Ropes program which took place at the Memorial Children's Hospital of South Bend and the Food Bank of Northern Indiana.  The six players visited the Children's Hospital in downtown South Bend and received a tour from site staff and received the chance to visit with patients of the facility. Kendall Dye, Jessi Gebhardt, Ginger Howard, Laura Kueny, Brittany Kelly and Jaclyn Sweeney signed golf balls, gave out toys and stuffed animals and took plenty of photo opportunities when they spent time with their new fans. The Four Winds Invitational selected the hospital as the events' main beneficiary

PGA GRAND SLAM OF GOLF TICKETS ON SALE TODAY WITH TWO-FOR-ONE PROMOTION

Tickets for the 2012 PGA Grand Slam of Golf are now available for purchase at www.pga.com/grandslam, and PGA of America today announced a two-for-one kickoff promotion, whereby golf fans visiting the Island of Bermuda to enjoy the event will receive two tickets for every one ticket purchased.

The 30th PGA Grand Slam of Golf, the PGA of America’s year-end showcase event that boasts the most difficult qualification - a major championship - will take place October 22-24, 2012, at Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton, Bermuda.  The event features 2012 Major Champions Bubba Watson (Masters), Webb Simpson (U.S. Open) and Ernie Els (Open Championship) as well as 2011 Grand Slam defending champion Keegan Bradley.

Tickets for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are $20 for each day, while a weeklong pass for all three days is $50.  A purchase of any day’s ticket will result in a second ticket for that same day at no additional cost.  Weeklong passes are also offered on the two-for-one promotion.

The buy one, get one free promotion is available only for tickets purchased in advance online at www.pga.com/grandslam.  This special promotion will not be available for tickets bought after October 21, 2012.

Port Royal Golf Course is a 6,842-yard, par-71 public course that opened for play in 1970.

The PGA Grand Slam of Golf features a $1.35 million purse, with the winner receiving $600,000, second place $300,000, third place $250,000 and fourth place $200,000.

The PGA Grand Slam of Golf will be televised by TNT to a worldwide audience of 88.9 million U.S. homes and international viewers in more than 100 countries.

The PGA Grand Slam of Golf is hosted by the Bermuda Department of Tourism, Port Royal Golf Course, and the Fairmont Southampton Hotel.

Australian firm Pacific Coast Design is underway with the construction of the first new golf course in Iran for 33 years. Developer TSI (Iranian Land) chose PCD to design the project, an international standard eighteen hole course, plus nine hole academy, near the town of Panand, around 15 minutes from the main Tehran airport.

Construction of the golf course began this spring, and is expected to be finished by early 2014. Mohammad Abbasi, the Iranian minister for sport and youth affairs hit the first golf ball at the construction inauguration ceremony.

Ellis Marsalis, patriarch of the talented and world renowned Marsalis family, showcased his trophy and hole signage from the “Young Cats Swinging For Old Lions” golf awards event hosted by Global Golf Institute, LLC and the Black Men of Labor Inc. 19 Legendary “Old Lions” of the New Orleans music industry were feted at Joe Bartholomew Municipal Golf Course followed by an evening tribute dinner. (Read more in Summer 2012 issue).