Renowned CADDIEMASTER To Further Enhance The Golf Experience At Doral, Offering On-Course Caddies And Forecaddies For All Five Of Doral’s Championship Courses
Miami, Fl. – December 4, 2006â?¦Doral Golf Resort & Spa, A Marriott Resort, one of the world’s premier golf destinations, today introduced a resort caddie program designed to further enhance the already world class experience for golfers playing on Doral’s five championship golf courses. This new program will be managed and maintained by CADDIEMASTER, the leading provider of caddie services, based in Pinehurst, NC.
Doral’s resort caddie program will feature two options: the full service caddie and the forecaddie. The full service caddie option will provide golfers with the ultimate caddie experience and will include carrying bags, offering shot selection advice, raking bunkers, spotting wayward shots, reading greens, tending pins, cleaning balls and getting yardage. For golfers that prefer to ride, the forecaddie service will provide all of the above mentioned services with the exception of carrying bags.
In addition, all caddies will provide golfers with unique insight as to the history of Doral. This will include memorable moments from past PGA TOUR events, as Doral’s Blue Monster is home to the longest running PGA TOUR event in Florida, and has seen some of golf’s best finishes in recent years.
"We are excited to offer this new service to our golfers," said Darrin Helfrick, General Manager of Golf, Doral Golf Resort & Spa, A Marriott Resort. "CADDIEMASTER is renowned as the premier provider of caddie management services in the industry and we are confident that this new program will further enhance the golf and caddie experience for our members and resort guests alike."
The 693-room Doral Resort, which is managed by Marriott International and is officially named the Doral Golf Resort & Spa, A Marriott Resort, joined Marriott’s first-class portfolio of 60 resorts worldwide in August of 2004. In managing the golf business operations at Doral, Marriott International enlisted its in-house golf management arm, Marriott Golf, the world’s largest resort golf management company, and the first in-house golf management team ever established by a lodging company. Currently, Marriott Golf oversees more than 150,000 rounds of golf per year on Doral’s five championship golf courses, managing more than 500 corporate and group outings per year.
CADDIEMASTER is the leading provider of caddie management services in the United States and Abroad. Founded in 1993, CADDIEMASTER now manages the caddie services at a variety of world-class golf venues including Augusta National Golf Club, Kiawah Island Club, Pebble Beach Golf Links, PGA National Resort, Pinehurst Resort and TPC Sawgrass, among others.
MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL, INC. (NYSE: MAR) is a leading lodging company with more than 2,800 lodging properties in the United States and 67 other countries and territories. Marriott International operates and franchises hotels under the Marriott, JW Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, Renaissance, Residence Inn, Courtyard, TownePlace Suites, Fairfield Inn, SpringHill Suites and Bulgari brand names; develops and operates vacation ownership resorts under the Marriott Vacation Club International, Horizons, The Ritz-Carlton Club and Grand Residences by Marriott brands; operates Marriott Executive Apartments; provides furnished corporate housing through its Marriott ExecuStay division; and operates conference centers and golf courses. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and had approximately 143,000 employees at 2005 year-end. It is ranked as the lodging industry’s most admired company and one of the best places to work for by FORTUNE®. The company is also a 2006 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ENERGY STAR® Partner. In fiscal year 2005, Marriott International reported sales from continuing operations of $11.6 billion. For more information or reservations, please visit our web site at www.marriott.com.
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