News release from the Hotel Fitness Championship:
Hotel Fitness Championship interactive promotion tees up giant golf ball around Fort Wayne
“Tee Shot” promotion leads up to Web.com Tour event at Sycamore Hills Golf Club, gives participants discounts, shot at winning tournament tickets(June 11, 2014) – As the Hotel Fitness Championship prepares for play Aug. 25-31 at Sycamore Hills Golf Club, the tournament is once again launching a community-wide interactive event featuring an oversized golf ball in 18 popular Fort Wayne locations with the opportunity for participants to win upgraded tickets.
Beginning on Monday, June 16, the “Tee Shot” promotion will place two larger-than-life Hotel Fitness Championship-branded golf balls in different well-traveled Fort Wayne locations. Over nine weeks, the two structures will change locations weekly, where they will stay from Monday to Sunday.
Corresponding clues and information on each new location will be distributed via the Hotel Fitness Championship Facebook and Twitter pages. When a structure is spotted, local residents are asked to take a photo and share it on social media. Each participant will receive a promotional code for a discount on tournament tickets. Every Monday, one participant from the previous week will be selected at random to receive a pair of one-day Championship round upgraded tickets.
“We’re excited to bring Tee Shot back to the Fort Wayne community following a great run in 2013,” said Duke Butler IV, tournament director of Hotel Fitness Championship. “We encourage sports fans and community members to participate as the excitement builds for the return of Indiana’s biggest golf event of the year.”
Here is how “Tee Shot” works:
- Participants will have until 11:59 p.m. EDT each Sunday from June 16 to Aug. 17 to take a picture of one of the golf balls and share on Facebook and Twitter.
- On Facebook, participants will post photos on the Hotel Fitness Championship’s wall.
- On Twitter, participants will tweet their photos to @HotelFitChamps.
- Every participant will be contacted via social media to receive a promotional code for a special discount on tickets.
- Each week, one randomly selected participant will receive two one-day Championship round upgraded tickets ($100 value), which will be announced via Facebook and/or Twitter.
- Tee Shot will officially end on Aug. 17 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
The Hotel Fitness Championship is one of four Web.com Tour Finals events for 2014 that will determine the 50 players who earn cards for the 2014-15 PGA TOUR season under the TOUR’s enhanced qualifying system. It is the year’s biggest golf tournament to be played in the Hoosier state and is estimated to have a $4-5 million impact on Fort Wayne’s economy.
For more information on “Tee Shot” or to see the official rules and regulations, go to https://www.hotelfitnesschampionship.com/media-center. To purchase tickets, visit www.hotelfitnesschampionship.com or contact or contact Sally White at (224) 260-3786 or white@wgaesf.org.
About Western Golf Association
Founded in 1899 to serve golfing interests in the growing Midwest, the WGA now has nearly 400 member clubs. The WGA conducts championships for professional and amateur golfers, promotes the use of caddies and oversees the Evans Scholars Foundation, which awards college scholarships to caddies with limited financial means. The WGA is a driving force in the game, a respected charitable cause for thousands of supporters and a distinguished leader in the nation’s golf community. In professional golf, the WGA also conducts the BMW Championship, the second-oldest tournament on the PGA TOUR. For more information on the WGA and ESF, call (847) 724-4600 or visit: www.wgaesf.org.About the Web.com Tour
Founded (1990), owned and operated by the PGA TOUR, the Web.Com Tour continues to identify those players who are ready to compete and win on golf’s biggest stage. In an historic 2013 season, the Web.com Tour became the path to the PGA TOUR with all 50 available PGA TOUR cards coming through the Web.com Tour and the season culminating at the four-event Web.com Tour Finals. Web.com became the Tour’s umbrella sponsor on June 27, 2012. A 10-year agreement (through 2021) is in place. The Tour enters its 25th year of competition in 2014. Three out of four PGA TOUR members are Web.com Tour alumni. Tour alumni have won 374 PGA TOUR titles, including 18 majors and five PLAYERS Championships. The PGA TOUR, through the efforts of its tours and their tournaments, sponsors, players and volunteers, surpassed $2 billion in charitable giving in Jan. 2014. To learn more about the PGA TOUR and Web.com Tour and to follow the season-long quest for a PGA TOUR card, visit PGATOUR.COM, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.About Web.com
Web.com Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: WWWW) provides a full range of Internet services to small businesses to help them compete and succeed online. Web.com meets the needs of small businesses anywhere along their lifecycle with affordable, subscription-based solutions including domains, hosting, website design and management, search engine optimization, online marketing campaigns, local sales leads, social media, mobile products, eCommerce solutions and call center services. For more information, please visit www.web.com; follow Web.com on Twitter @webdotcom or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/web.com. For additional online marketing resources and small business networking, please visit Web.com’s Small Business Summit.About Hotel Fitness®
With nearly 25 years of experience and more than 20,000 fitness rooms designed and equipped – Hotel Fitness doesn’t simply sell equipment – we manage the entire process. From designing great looking fitness facilities to ensuring your equipment ships smoothly and is installed properly, Hotel Fitness is there every step of the way. Partnering with leading global manufacturers, we provide state-of-the-art fitness equipment, accessories, sports flooring and design services to nearly every hotel brand, including many of the largest commercial developers across the country. Headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Hotel Fitness is recognized as the World’s Leader in Hotel and Resort Fitness®. Learn more at www.hotelfitness.com or by calling 800.291.0403.
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