WINTERGREEN, Va. – You don’t have to fly to Vegas for a weekend of poker and golf with all the trappings. Wintergreen Resort offers everything needed for cards and links during the 2008 Eastern Golf TV “Hold ‘Em & Hit ‘Em” tournament, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 25-26.
The event features a Texas Hold ‘Em poker tournament at Wintergreen’s Skyline Pavilion on Saturday night, followed the next morning by a foursome team scramble golf tournament at Stoney Creek Golf Course. The weekend’s mantra is “What happens at Wintergreen, stays at Wintergreen.”
Registration fee is $1,000 per four-person team, which includes:
* Saturday night accommodations for entire team at Wintergreen Resort
* Welcome reception
* Pairings party and dinner for four
* Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Tournament
* Breakfast at Stoney Creek Bar & Grill
* Unlimited use of golf practice facility
* Team golf tournament, 18 holes at Stoney Creek
* Lunch at Stoney Creek following play
Sponsored by the Eastern Golf TV Show (www.easterngolf.tv), the golf tournament is to be played on the Shamokin and Tuckahoe nines at the 27-hole Stoney Creek course, a Rees Jones design. Practice rounds on Saturday Oct. 25 may be reserved for $50 per player. Competition includes different individual games throughout the round. The team tournament is a modified scramble using each player’s drive once. Overall team handicaps will be determined by the tournament committee.
For more details and on-line registration, visit www.thefrontnineradioshow.com and click on the tournament icon.
About Wintergreen Resort:
Wintergreen Resort is an 11,000-acre, four-season resort located in the Blue Ridge Mountains southwest of Charlottesville, Virginia. This beautiful hideaway is the ultimate vacation and conference spot, with more than 300 condominium-style accommodations; 45 holes of championship golf; snow skiing, snowboarding and snow tubing; an award-winning tennis program; a full-service, destination spa; 40,000 square feet of meeting and event space; and savory dining options. The resort is located adjacent to the Blue Ridge Parkway in beautiful Central Virginia near Charlottesville, just 90 mniutes from Richmond, Va., three hours from Washington, D.C. and Raleigh, N.C., five and a half hours from Philadelphia, Pa. and eight hours from Atlanta, Ga.
Contact:
Anne Marie Jones
Public Relations /Communications
434/325-8146
ajones@wintergreenresort.com
Karen Moraghan
Hunter Public Relations
908/876-5100
kmoraghan@hunter-pr.com
www.hunter-pr.com
