Golf News for Monday, May 23, 2005 | Events

ChampionsGate announces 'Summer for champions' and 'Tournaments for champions'

CHAMPIONSGATE, Fla. – ChampionsGate, Florida’s premier golf resort destination, has announced its summer group golf specials, Summer for Champions and Tournaments for Champions.

ChampionsGate designed the programs to run in conjunction with each other, May thru September, 2005, and to offer the Central Florida community a great value on group rates for golf this summer.

Tournaments for Champions offers an inclusive rate for groups interested in holding a golf event at ChampionsGate. Rates per person are $55 Monday -Thursday, and $60 Friday – Sunday, plus tax and gratuity. The offer includes a choice of four menus, green fees, carts, souvenir yardage book, $25 gift certificate to the Omni Orlando Resort and the following tournament services: event registration, customized rules sheet, scoring summary board of winners, GPS yardage system, pre-round practice balls, pre-round announcements, and group gratuities.

Summer for Champions will offer a 25% discount off the base summer rates for a round of golf for groups of 16 or more looking to play either course with no additional services.

“Having programs like Summer for Champions and Tournaments for Champions provides ChampionsGate with a way to invite the Central Florida community to experience our resort and allows us to showcase one of our distinguished amenities,” said Allison Pope, director of marketing and sales for ChampionsGate.

Interested groups will be able to take advantage of play on both the National course and the International course, each course offering a unique experience. The National Course is a classic American layout, with traditional roughs and sweeping white sand bunkers; the National rolls through woodlands, wetlands, and orange groves. The International Course evokes the game's Scottish beginnings. Dramatic and challenging, it ranks among top resort courses with a hard, fast-playing surface; in short, a true links course.

For more information on this summer’s group offers, or to book an event, organizations should contact Lynn Sordel, director of sales and marketing for ChampionsGate Golf at 407-787-GOLF. All groups are eligible for special rates at the Omni Orlando Resort.

About ChampionsGate
ChampionsGate (www.ChampionsGate.com) is Florida’s premier golf resort community, encompassing some 1,500 acres southwest of Orlando. ChampionsGate, with its beautifully designed double gates, welcomes visitors off Interstate 4, just south of the Walt Disney World Resort.

ChampionsGate is being developed as a joint venture by Apollo Real Estate Advisors of New York and RIDA Development Corporation of Houston. ChampionsGate has a projected value of approximately $1 billion and is expected to include 2,864 hotel rooms, 2,136 resort villas, condominiums, townhomes and apartments, 36 holes of golf, and 426,000 square feet of retail space, making ChampionsGate one of the region’s largest resort destinations.

For more information, contact:
Allison Pope
Director of Marketing & Sales for ChampionsGate
407.397.2500
apope@championsgate.com