(LAHAINA, HI) – Ka’anapali Golf Courses’ Royal Ka’anapali Course – managed by Billy Casper Golf – will host the 24th Champions SKINS Game, January 29-30, for the fourth consecutive year, with PGA TOUR legends competing for a $770,000 purse.
Tournament mainstays Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Fuzzy Zoeller, Ben Crenshaw, Nick Price, Bernhard Langer, Fred Couples and Mark O’Meara are scheduled to appear.
Players will compete in the alternate-shot, team event, ensuring memorable shot-making and tee-to-green excitement over two days and 18 holes. The event will be televised in high-definition (where available) on Golf Channel (live) on Saturday, January 29 from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. EST and Sunday, January 30 from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. EST (check local listing for air time in your area).
The SKINS Game – open and free to the public – will kick-off at 2 p.m. Hawaiian Standard Time on both Saturday, January 29 and Sunday, January 30. The Pro-Am events on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will be at 9:00 a.m. HST.
“Ka’anapali is pleased to once again welcome the Champions Tour to our golf course,” says Ed Kageyama, PGA General Manager of Ka’anapali. “This unbelievable group of players – as they do each year – will undoubtedly provide a wonderful show of skill, charisma and camaraderie.”
Nicklaus and Watson return to Royal Ka’anapali to defend their 2010 title against 2009 champions, Crenshaw and Zoeller. Couples will partner with Price for the second consecutive year and Langer teams with O’Meara to round out the formidable field.
Each hole is a tournament within itself, as prize money carries over if no player wins a hole outright. The total purse is broken down to $30,000 for each of the first six holes, $40,000 for each of the middle six holes, $50,000 for holes 13 through 17 and $100,000 for No. 18.
The Royal Ka’anapali Course, a Robert Trent Jones, Sr. design, opened in 1962 and has tested the skills of professional and amateur golfers. A par-71, 6,700-yard layout, the Royal Course combines wide fairways and undulating greens, making it distinctive, demanding and exciting, hole to hole. With more than 45 years of tournament history, the Royal Course has hosted many of golf’s greatest legends: Arnold Palmer, Player, Nicklaus, Billy Casper, Jan Stephenson and Nancy Lopez.
The resort underwent a $13 million renovation in 2005-2006 and was given a 4.5-star rating (out of five) by Golf Digest in the magazine’s recent “Best Places to Play” guide. Ka’anapali was selected by The Golf Channel to host “Big Break Ka’anapali” that aired in 2008.
For more information about Ka’anapali or to reserve a tee time, visit www.kaanapaligolfcourses.com or call 808.661.3691.
About Billy Casper Golf
Widely respected as a high-performance owner-operator of golf courses, country clubs and resorts, Billy Casper Golf enjoys the second largest domestic portfolio. The company provides turnkey club management for public-agency and private owners, developers and investors. Founded more than 20 years ago in cooperation with golf legend Billy Casper and headquartered in Vienna, VA, regional offices are strategically convenient to courses’ locales.
The company’s best-of-breed infrastructure shows clients favorable returns on investments. Critically-acclaimed by industry leaders and media, Billy Casper Golf economies of scale make and save money for courses while delivering personal touches to daily-fee golfers and members.
Buffalo Communications – a division of Billy Casper Golf – is the global public relations, branding and marketing-communications firm. In addition to creating and implementing programs for Billy Casper Golf courses, Buffalo represents many of golf’s top brands (products, resorts, destinations and communities) worldwide.
For information: www.billycaspergolf.com, www.buffalocommunications.com, 703.761.1444.
Contact:
Nick Lashinsky
Billy Casper Golf / Buffalo Communications
703.891.3324
nlashinsky@billycaspergolf.com
www.buffalocommunications.com
www.billycaspergolf.com
Melissa Ludwig
Ka’anapali Golf Courses
808.357.7248
mludwig@kaanapaligolfcourses.com
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