Orlando Golf News

CELEBRATION, FLA. – Celebration Golf Club’s annual golf tournament in March to benefit the Robert Gamez Foundation for Under Privileged Children raised more than $100,000 for the cause.

Gene Garrote, vice president of Celebration Golf Company, said more than 100 golfers participated in the annual event including two-time major champion John Daly and former NFL superstar Marshall Faulk.

About Celebration Golf
Celebration Golf Club with a 4½ star rating out of five by Golf Digest is also ranked as one of the top 25 family golf resorts and in the top 50 courses for women by Golf for Women magazine in 2007.  “Our club’s mission statement is, Reaching for the Star,” Garrote said.  “We are committed to achieving five stars.”

HARMONY, FL- Harmony Golf Preserve has achieved designation as a “Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary” through the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for golf courses, and Audubon International program. Jason Moore, course superintendent, has led the effort to obtain sanctuary status on this course and is being recognized for Environmental Stewardship by Audubon International.

Harmony Golf Preserve is the 83rd course in Florida and the 654th in the world to receive this honor. 

Open Less Than Two Years, Shingle Creek is Again Named One of the Most Outstanding Golf & Meeting Properties in the World.

ORLANDO – For the second year in a row, Orlando's Rosen Shingle Creek hotel, which has yet to even celebrate its second birthday, has won the prestigious Meetings & Conventions (M&C) magazine Gold Tee Award for 2008.

Shingle Creek Golf Club was one of just 74 domestic and 10 international/offshore properties to be honored as an outstanding meeting/golf destination by readers of M&C magazine - more than 70,000 corporate, incentive, and association meeting planners.

CELEBRATION, Fla. - Mystic Dunes Golf Club is proudly participating in this month’s “PGA Free Lesson Month” by offering golf lessons during the month of May.

“Mystic Dunes is proud to once again partner with the PGA to promote the game of golf,” said Rick Smith, Director of Golf Operations at Mystic Dunes. “We welcome golfers of any skill level—new, casual or avid—to join us for a free ten minute lesson.” 

MINNEOLA, Fla. – The scenic views at Sugarloaf Mountain Golf & Town Club welcomed 20 Orlando-area PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour golfers for the club’s inaugural “Sugarloaf Masters” tournament Wednesday.

Chris DiMarco, who turned professional in 1990 and was in the Official World Golf Rankings top 10 for more than 50 weeks between 2002 and 2006, emerged as inaugural champion with a 5-under-par 67.  DiMarco also hosts his own golf radio show on XM Radio.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Marriott Golf, one of the world’s premier golf operators, announced the Company will be hosting the 2nd annual “Hit The Green” fundraiser for Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) throughout the 2008 calendar year. Beginning in April, 20 of Marriott Golf’s domestic properties will each be hosting promotional days to help raise funds for CMN.

In 2007, participating Marriott Golf properties raised nearly $40,000 for CMN, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to saving and improving the lives of children by generating funds for children’s hospitals across North America.

Three Orlando area courses will be participating in the program. Those courses are the Grande Pines Golf Club, Grande Vista Golf Club and Hawk's Landing Golf Club.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Some of golf’s most influential leaders and members of the game’s most prominent associations converged on the nation’s capitol to celebrate a bipartisan Congressional resolution which declared April 16, 2008 as National Golf Day.

The golf leaders discussed the game’s impact on society, in particular its role to the U.S. economy.

The golf industry is the sports and entertainment worlds’ largest contributor to our economy, generating $76 billion in direct economic impact according to a recent study, the 2005 Golf Economy Report, commissioned by World Golf Foundation’s GOLF 20/20 initiative completed earlier this year and released at the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Fla. 

Close to 100 million people on television worldwide, and 5.4 million online on masters.org, experienced the 2008 Masters it was announced by Billy Payne, Chairman of the Masters Tournament and Augusta National Golf Club.

The preliminary global television numbers were up approximately 15 percent from last year. In all, the Masters was viewed, either live or delayed, in over 190 countries. Additionally, the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service showed the event to US bases throughout the world. 

CELEBRATION, FLA. – Celebration Golf Club’s annual golf tournament in March to benefit the Robert Gamez Foundation for Under Privileged Children raised more than $100,000 for the cause.

Gene Garrote, vice president of Celebration Golf Company, said more than 100 golfers participated in the annual event.

For more information, contact:
Gene Garrote, Vice President, Celebration Golf Company, 407-566-1046
Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142

About Celebration Golf

Celebration Golf Club with a 4½ star rating out of five by Golf Digest is also ranked as one of the top 25 family golf resorts and in the top 50 courses for women by Golf for Women magazine in 2007. 

CELEBRATION, FL (April 9, 2008)—Mystic Dunes Golf Club is hosting the second annual Red White & Blue Invitational on Sunday, June 29, 2008. A portion of the tournament’s proceeds will benefit the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP).

Registration will begin at 12:30 p.m. followed by a 1:00 p.m. shotgun start. An awards banquet and American-style barbeque with all the traditional fixings will round out the day.

“Mystic Dunes Golf Club is proud to help raise funds for injured service men and women,” said Melissa Suttles, General Manager. “Hosting this tournament and supporting this cause is a small contribution compared with what all of the amazing service people sacrifice every day for all of us.”

Tournament fees are $60 per player or $200 per foursome. The deadline for entry is Wednesday, June 25, 2008. For more information or to register for the tournament, please call Keith Bielski at (407) 787-5639.