First-time involvement with professional golf tour to spur additional opportunities at the professional level for eGolfScore and its distribution partners
Flemington, NJ, December 7, 2006 – eGolfScore, the leading provider of wireless scoring for individual golfers as well as corporate, celebrity and charity golf events across North America, Europe and Australasia, announces eGolfScore Australasia (the company’s Australian distribution partner) will be providing real-time wireless scoring at the Macarthur YAP Golf Classic 2006 on December 12th at the Camden Golf Club. The company will also score the event’s Pro-Am on December 11th.
"We are proud on many levels to be associated with the Macarthur YAP Golf Classic 2006, which supports the charity, YAP. The event boasts an array of golf industry professionals," said Joe Kaplan, eGolfScore Co-Founder and CEO. The added value provided by eGolfScore will be greatly appreciated by this audience."
According to Earl Schonberger, Director of Operations, eGolfScore Australasia, "Our eGolfScore wireless scoring system will further enhance the professionalism of the event, allowing spectators to view the leaderboard both on course and remotely over the web. It will also enable YAP to feature and highlight their generous sponsors in a special way through our unique eGolfScore Media Delivery System (eMDS)."
For the first time in the Macarthur Region, NSW, Australia, the Australian Ladies Professional Golfers (ALPG) will be playing in the inaugural $30,000 Macarthur YAP (Young Adults Program) Golf Classic 2006, which will be part of the new ALPG Tour Club Car Series 2006. The event will play host to notables such as Australian international golfer, Rachel Hetherington, Patron of YAP and YAP’s golf ambassadors; NSW female amateur Skye Chouerie-Solly and NSW Male Junior, Luke Gageler.
"eGolfScore has stepped up in true YAP partner style," said Roz Hill, Managing Director of YAP. "Adding real-time wireless scoring and exceptional sponsorship exposure were reasons enough to partner with eGolfScore. But they are also graciously donating a portion of their wireless scoring services to our Pro-Am and Golf Classic main event."
About YAP-Young Adults Program (YAP)
Roz Hill, founder and managing Director of YAP, has an ongoing desire to improve the world, and has a true sense of dedication to a cause, which gives her incredible energy beyond most people’s level to drive and make things happen. Her passion draws the expertise of skilled people on board. She asks nothing of anyone that she would not do herself and leads by example from the bottom to the top. YAP encourages young female and male adults to take ownership of their own body health through breast cancer awareness and is driven through its website www.yapstuff.org.
Young Adults Program (YAP) Ltd is a registered "not for profit" organization endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient by the Australian Taxation Office. For more information on YAP, contact us at www.yapstuff.org.
About eGolfScore
Making amateur golfers feel like PGA Tour pros since 1999, eGolfScore is the leader in leveraging the power of digital media, real-time wireless communications and the world of golf for individual golfers as well as corporate, celebrity and charity golf outings across North America, Europe and Australasia.
Handheld wireless scoring devices, big-screen TV leaderboards and Internet broadcast of amateur golf outings around the world comprise eGolfScore’s real-time wireless Event Scoring Program (eSP). Combine eGolfScore’s traditional eSP offering with highly-targeted digital advertising across all eSP components, impactful on-site networking at select outings, inclusion in pre- and post-outing emails, advertising on commemorative scorecards, and a variety of other on-site promotional opportunities and you benefit from the industry’s most unique, highly-differentiated Media Delivery System (eMDS).
Key eGolfScore clients include some of the world’s most prestigious organizations, including Trump Golf, BellSouth, the American Cancer Society, Verizon Wireless, the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Autism Speaks to name a few. For more information about eGolfScore, contact us at www.egolfscore.com.
Contact:
Linda Everk
VP of Marketing
eGolfScore
(877) Score18 (877-726-7318; x-512)
everkl@egolfscore.com
www.egolfscore.com
