April 26, 2006 -- The Territory – a golf and country club community near the quaint, progressive town of Duncan, approximately 75 minutes southwest of Oklahoma City and 2.5 hours north of Dallas – today announces it has retained Buffalo Communications to provide media relations and publicity services.

Under the agreement, Buffalo will create and implement a plan to consistently place The Territory in national, regional and local golf, lifestyle and real estate media.

“Having a partner like Buffalo Communications enables us to better communicate The Territory’s attributes and mission, which is to provide an outstanding golf club and residential community,” says Rick Braught, who owns The Territory with wife Barbara Braught. “We’re excited about the future of The Territory and what it means for Southwest Oklahoma. The Territory is spurring economic development in the area and is becoming a place where we hope our children’s children and their contemporaries will want to live and work.”

The Randy Heckenkemper-designed course enjoyed its first full season last year. It stretches to more than 7,100 yards and compares with the finest layouts across the Plains states – including Southern Hills, Oak Tree, Karsten Creek in Oklahoma and Prairie Dunes in Kansas.
Heckenkemper, who designed two of the Oklahoma’s six top-rated courses in Golf Digest Magazine’s “America’s Greatest Courses, Best In State 2005-06” – No. 5 Forest Ridge (1989 opening) and No. 6 Chickasaw Pointe (1999) – also designed Stonebridge Meadows (1997) in Fayetteville, Ark., which ranks among the best courses in that state by Golf Digest. Heckenkemper is currently working on redesigning one of the two courses at the TPC of Scottsdale in Arizona.

Located adjacent to the famous Chisholm Trail route, The Territory hosted the 2005 Oklahoma Amateur Championship, and the course was resoundingly praised by competitors and the Oklahoma Golf Association (“OGA”), which manages the state’s penultimate amateur competition. The Territory will host the state senior amateur in August and an NCAA Division II Super Regional Championship May 1 through 3.

“The Territory is a diamond,” says Mark Felder, OGA Tournament Director. “It’s all the golf anybody needs. It’s a great golf course already and it’s only going to get better with age.”
When choosing what turf would grace the playing corridors at The Territory, course architect Heckenkemper drew on his extensive history in the region and looked to other courses in the area. Southern Hills, rated regularly among the world’s best courses and which hosted the 2001 U.S. Open won by Retief Goosen, uses the same bentgrass blend on its greens as The Territory.

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