(VIENNA, VA) – Buoyed by its success operating multi-course portfolios in and around major metropolitan cities, Billy Casper Golf (“BCG”) has been selected by the City of Philadelphia to manage five golf assets.
Under the long-term agreement, BCG will direct all activities at Cobb’s Creek Golf Club (Olde and Karakung courses), FDR Golf Club, John F. Byrne Golf Course and City Line Sports Center. The company operated the courses in 2008 under an interim contract.
BCG also manages multiple golf course portfolios for other major cities and counties, including Chicago (IL), Cincinnati (OH), Knoxville (TN), Tulsa (OK), Cook County (IL), Westchester County (NY) and Anne Arundel County (MD).
For Philadelphia’s courses – which are part of the city’s Fairmount Park system – BCG will conduct golf course maintenance, staffing and training, clubhouse operations, golf instruction, marketing and public relations, special events and financial management.
“Solidifying a long-term partnership with Billy Casper Golf is very exciting,” says Mark Focht, Executive Director of Fairmount Park. “Golfers will experience even healthier course conditions and the City is primed for impressive fiscal returns from Casper’s sound management.”
“Billy Casper Golf dedicates considerable resources to our infrastructure, ensuring public agencies are much better with our company than without,” says Peter Hill, Chairman and CEO of BCG. “At the Philadelphia courses, we plan to make significant enhancements to their physical plants and customer-service levels, so they become part of golfers’ steady diets.”
Cobb’s Creek is greater Philadelphia’s first public golf course (1916) and features two, 18-hole golf layouts. The Olde Course ranked No. 6 “Best Municipal Course in America” by Golfweek, and the character-laden Karakung Course challenges golfers with elevation changes and small- to mid-size greens.
FDR boasts an intriguing and fun par-69, 6,004-yard, Florida-style layout. The Philadelphia course that’s closest to City Center, it was established in the early 1940s and named after the nation’s longest-serving President.
John F. Byrne, dramatically nestled in and around a valley in northeast Philadelphia, presents a variety of tree-lined and open fairways, rolling terrain and elevated tees and greens.
City Line Sports Center is the area’s most versatile outdoor entertainment venue with a driving range, miniature golf course and batting cages.
For more information or to reserve a tee time: www.golfphilly.org, 866.785.2635.
About the City of Philadelphia Fairmount Park
With over 9,200 acres, Fairmount Park comprises 11 percent of the land in Philadelphia (City and County), making it one of the largest urban parks inAmerica. It consists of 63 regional and neighborhood parks, including the popular East and West Parks, Franklin D. Roosevelt Park, Pennypack Park,Poquessing Park, Tacony Creek Park and Wissahickon Valley Park. Franklin, Logan, Rittenhouse, Washington and Center Squares – as part of William Penn’s original design of Philadelphia – are also part of the Fairmount Park system.
About Billy Casper Golf
Widely respected as a high-performance, full-service owner/operator of golf courses, BCG manages properties in 24 states and outside the U.S. The company provides turnkey club operations for public-agency and private owners, developers and investors. Founded 20 years ago in cooperation with golf legend Billy Casper, BCG is based in Vienna, VA with regional offices strategically convenient to courses’ locales.
BCG’s best-of-breed infrastructure shows clients favorable returns on investments. Critically-acclaimed by industry leaders and media, BCG economies of scale help daily-fee, municipal, resort and private courses make and save money while delivering a personal touch.
Buffalo Communications – a division of BCG – is America’s foremost golf-specialty publicity, media-relations and marketing-communications agency. In addition to creating PR and implementing programs for BCG courses, Buffalo represents many of golf’s top brands (products, resorts, destinations and communities) worldwide.
For more information about Billy Casper Golf / Buffalo Communications, www.billycaspergolf.com, www.buffalocommunications.com, 703.761.1444.
Contact:
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Billy Casper Golf / Buffalo Communications
703.891.3324
nlashinsky@billycaspergolf.com
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