Winners To Be Announced At The 2007 PGA Show
Austin, Texas (January 22, 2006) – UpLink Corporation launches the golf industry’s first GPS Best Practices Awards Program. The awards will recognize those golf courses that have achieved the greatest success applying UpLink’s GPS golf business solutions to improve their operations, customer service and profitability. Winners of the first annual Best Practices Awards will be announced at UpLink’s booth #3435 at the PGA Merchandise Show on January 26, 2007 at 2:00 PM EST.
The top performing courses in the following categories will receive an UpLink Best Practices Awards plaque and be recognized as an industry innovator in the media, at leading golf events, on UpLink’s website and through UpLink’s marketing efforts:
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Overall Profitability Leader
– Golf Service Leader
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â AdSmart Profitability Leader
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Tournament Profitability Leader
– Fleet Management Leader
"More and more golf courses are using GPS as a business tool. However, there is no forum for courses to share their experiences and exchange best practices," comments Glenn A. Pierce, Jr., president and CEO of UpLink. "Our new awards program is an industry first. We want to recognize and promote our golf course customers that are achieving great success with our products and then share their best practices with others. GPS business solutions are improving the operations and profitability of many golf courses, this recognition program will help get the word out to others on the advantages that UpLink can bring to their operations."
About UpLink
Since 1998, Austin, Texas based UpLink Corporation has developed innovative GPS-based business solutions to help golf courses, clubs and resorts across North America retain their golfers, secure their fleets and transform their bottom lines. Considered the fastest growing GPS golf solutions provider in North America, UpLink’s solutions are installed at renowned courses including Walt Disney World Resort and Poppy Hills Golf Course. This year, UpLink introduced a completely new point of view on GPS with INOVA, a total GPS golf business solution offering a number of industry firsts including integrated widescreen dashview or roofview GPS displays, multimedia audio, integrated maintenance vehicle tracking applications and multi-event GPS advertising.
Committed to assisting courses in generating revenue while controlling costs, UpLink offers a turnkey sponsorship program to help courses transform GPS advertising into long-term profit centers. The last 20 courses to use this program averaged over $78,000 in annual advertising revenue. Moreover, UpLink offers the only GPS solutions with intelligent car control options, addressing key issues of golfer safety, car theft and course damage.
Committed to GPS golf industry innovation, UpLink owns a number of patents and is the exclusive GPS partner to leading golf car manufacturer, Club Car, Inc. For more information, visit www.uplinkgolf.com.
Contact:
Corrine Perry-Rotan
512-637-4884 (office)
cperry@uplinkgolf.com
