March 9, 2006 -- Greens Worldwide Incorporated 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 (www.usprogolftour.com). 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. 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.”
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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 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.
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.
For more information,
Contact the Tour Office at
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