Website and e-newsletter captures fans from Philadelphia, South Jersey and Delaware
(Philadelphia, PA) – MyPhillyGolf.com – a content-driven, golf-lifestyle website that covers the greater Philadelphia metro area – today announced it has struck a marketing partnership with GOLFWEEK Amateur Tour.
The GOLFWEEK Amateur Golf Tour, which provides amateurs the experience of competitive stroke-play golf, will host a 14 event local schedule during the 2011 season, including events in Philadelphia, South Jersey and Delaware.
“MyPhillyGolf.com is a perfect marketing partner because of the large, targeted group of avid golfers in the greater Philly metro area who visit the website,” says local GOLFWEEK Amateur Golf Tour Director Jeff A. Brodsky.
The GOLFWEEK Amateur Tour season opens April 30 at Metedeconk National GC and finishes on Oct. 2 at Philmont CC (North). The tour membership fee of $90 includes a 1-year GOLFWEEK magazine subscription, GOLFWEEK AGT logo cap, bag tag, and access to our complete nationwide schedule of over 600 golf tournaments, including the 14 being played on private and public golf courses in the Philadelphia Metro area.
Events are held on weekends, with the goal to provide fun, fast, competitive events with affordable pricing on the area’s best golf venues. Entry fees for the local events range from $85 to $225.00 for the single-day events. Those fees include cart and greens fees, range balls and prizes. There will be separate, sponsored par-3 (Closest To The Pin) contests and optional skins-games at each event. Scheduled practice rounds are available for every event.
The GOLFWEEK Amateur Tour is for amateurs of all ages and abilities. Members are placed in one of five flights based on handicaps. Flights are: Championship (0-3.9 handicap), A Flight (4-8.9), B Flight (9-13.9), C Flight (14-18.9) and D Flight (19 and over). Each tournament has the same format: gross stroke play, with USGA rules in effect. Winners in each handicap flight receive VISA gift cards, crystal trophies, and everyone in the tournament accumulates points towards qualification for our Tour Championship, played October 21 – 23 at the Palmetto Dunes Resort in Hilton Head, S.C.
For more information, including the full 2011 schedule, visit: www.amateurgolftour.net/philly_tour_pages/default6.asp
MyPhillyGolf.com Prizes Awarded to Opt-in Subscribers to Website’s Free Monthly E-Newsletter
Damon Lewis of Chester, Pa., and Dennis Begley, a member of Lederach Golf Club, have been selected as prize winners from MyPhillyGolf.com for signing up for the free monthly e-newsletter.
In addition to reporting news and covering interesting, current topics from the local, regional and national golf scenes, MyPhillyGolf.com sends out a free, monthly e-newsletter with news, playing values and options showcased.
It’s simple to sign up and with no strings attached. Enter your name and e-mail in the box on the website homepage, then click submit. Each month opt-in subscribers are awarded prizes as a thank you for their interest in MyPhillyGolf.com . Prizes include free rounds of golf, stay-and-play packages and free memberships to the Philadephia area chapter of the GOLFWEEK Amateur Golf Tour.
For more information, visit www.myphillygolf.com. Those interested in sharing news tips and requests can email Editorial Director Joe Logan at joelogan@myphillygolf.com. Those interested in marketing their businesses to MyPhillyGolf.com’s viewers and e-news subscribers can contact Cathy Reynolds, crgolfrep@aol.com, 610-724-3912.
About MyPhillyGolf.com
MyPhillyGolf.com was launched in conjunction with the Golf Association of Philadelphia (www.gapgolf.org), with the purpose to become the home of golf in Philadelphia, to provide golfers in the region information via which they can enhance their enjoyment of the game and interact with others who share their golf passions.
To that end, MyPhillyGolf.com covers local tournaments, golfers and courses (public and private); the national and international golf scene; Q&A’s with well-known “Golf People in the News”; and, posts first-person columns written about a variety of golf subjects, including trends, best practices, and more.
Editorial Director Joe Logan spent 35 years as a newspaper reporter and columnist, including 26 years at The Philadelphia Inquirer, the last 13 of which he was the golf writer. He covered the PGA, Champions and LPGA tours, serious amateur golf and the local golf scene. He is the author of “Playing a Round,” a collection of 81 area golf course reviews that first appeared in the Inquirer.
Logan has also written for Golf magazine, Golf World, Golfweek, Golf.com, the USGA and other golf websites and publications. He has appeared on myriad Golf Channel programs and is a frequent guest of “Making the Turn” on XM Radio’s PGA Tour Network Channel. He is a member in good standing of the Golf Writers Association of America, from which he has received several awards.
Logan’s MyPhillyGolf.com partner Craig Ammerman is past president of the Golf Association of Philadelphia (1999-2002) and former member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Golf Association (2002-2007). An avid golfer, Ammerman has worked as a rules official at each of the four major championships – 15 in all – including the 2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage, and at more than 100 other national, regional and local events. He also chaired the USGA’s Communications Committee from 2002-2007 and served as chairman of its Amateur Public Links Championship.
Professionally, Ammerman is chairman of Staywell Custom Communications, a health industry communications company, and executive vice president of its parent company, Stay Well. He was co-founder and president of Health Ink Communications for 20 years, before its sale.
Earlier in his career, Ammerman, a native of Kentucky, spent 22 years in the news business, including stints as chief of the New York City bureau of the Associated Press, managing editor of the New York Post and executive editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Ammerman is a member of the board of trustees and president of Riverton Country Club.
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