(TORONTO) – Golf Town – Canada’s largest golf retailer with unequaled selection and competitive prices at 47 locations coast to coast – announces it has partnered with the Royal Canadian Golf Association to become an official ticket vendor for the 2009 CN Canadian Women’s Open.
Available while supplies last at four Golf Town superstores in Alberta – Calgary East, Calgary North, Calgary South and Red Deer – ticket options for Canada’s national championship include $60 weekly badges or $30 “Anyday Passes.” This premier LPGA Tour event will be contested Aug. 31- Sept. 6 at Priddis Greens Golf & Country Club.
“This is a tremendously exciting event that each year features many of the world’s best players,” says Stephen Bebis, Golf Town President and CEO. “As the centre of the Canadian golf community, we’re proud to offer customers the opportunity to experience this great championship first hand.”
The 2009 CN Canadian Women’s Open offers a purse of $2.75 million and contenders will include defending champion Katherine Hull, as well as Paula Creamer, Brittany Lincicome, Lorena Ochoa and Michelle Wie, among others.
Golf Town offers an unbeatable selection of clubs, bags, balls, apparel, footwear, accessories, gifts, logo merchandise, promotional services and more. This includes the world’s leading golf brands, such as Adams, Ashworth, Bridgestone, Callaway Golf, Cleveland Golf, Cobra, Dunning, ECCO, FootJoy, Founders Club, Gordon Cooper, Greg Norman, Honma, Hugo Boss, LaCoste, Liz Claiborne, LIJA, Mizuno, Never Compromise, Nike Golf, Odyssey, Ogio, Paradise, Ping, Srixon, Sun Mountain, TaylorMade adidas Golf, Titleist and Wilson.
For more information, please visit www.golftown.com.
About Golf Town
Canada’s largest golf retailer, Golf Town was founded in 1999 and has grown from one location in Scarborough, ON, to 47 superstores coast to coast. At an average size of nearly 18,000 square feet, these retail centres feature all the major name-brand products at the best price, ensuring customers find what they want, when they want it.
A centre of the Canadian golf community for individuals and organizations, Golf Town locations serve as sanctuaries where players of all ages and abilities try, buy, learn about and improve their games. The largest employer of CPGA professionals, Golf Town offers on-site lessons tailored to an individual’s needs through its In-Store Academy.
The retailer has also established Canada’s leading customer advantage initiative via its Leaderboard Membership Privileges Program. Benefits of this free membership include the chance to win a $500 gift card in a national monthly drawing; timely e-newsletters; members-only special offers on equipment, accessories, golf lessons, in-store events; and more.
Golf Town was acquired by OMERS Private Equity, the entity responsible for private equity investments of the OMERS pension fund, in September 2007. For more information: www.omerscapital.com.
Already a leader in logo products for golf events and other programs, Golf Town purchased Accolade Reaction Promotion Group, Inc., in May 2008 and has created a one-stop-shop for the promotional needs of businesses, meeting planners, sales and marketing executives, and human resource professionals. Named a 2008 Top 40 Distributor by the Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI), ARPG is the first Canadian corporate merchandise services firm to achieve ASI Top 40 Status. For more information: www.arpg.ca.
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