(VIENNA, VA) – FarmLinks Golf Club at Pursell Farms (Sylacauga, AL) – featuring the world’s only agronomic research and demonstration golf course – has selected Buffalo Communications to turnkey a publicity and media-relations program.
Located 45 minutes from Birmingham and open to the public, FarmLinks’ golfer-, meetings- and amenity-user bases will further grow from Buffalo frequently positioning the property “in the news.”
Also benefitting is FarmLinks’ turf research and education program, The Experience at FarmLinks, known internationally as a proving ground for the industry’s most advanced agronomic products and techniques. It attracts thousands of researchers, students, educators and turf-care professionals, including golf-course superintendents from Pebble Beach, Pinehurst and other iconic venues. They frequent FarmLinks to keep current about the latest innovations and to exchange information with leading practitioners.
The Hurzdan-Fry-designed golf course boasts dozens of varieties of cool- and warm-season grasses, which, as a “living laboratory” showpiece to the superintendent community, are consistently in top condition.
Providing a challenging mix of dramatic elevation changes, mountain vistas and lakes spread across 3,500 acres, the course’s most memorable hole is the par 3, No. 5 that features a 170-foot vertical drop. Beginner and intermediate players also enjoy FarmLinks from four sets of tees, beginning at 5,919 yards and stretching to more than 7,400.
In addition to golf, FarmLinks is popular for fishing, hunting and shooting activities. Decorator showroom-like cabins and cottages, each comprised of four suites, accommodate small and mid-size groups from around the world. Its restaurant is recognized as “home of the tastiest filet in Alabama.”
“Guest satisfaction and media honors have always been strong for FarmLinks,” says David Pursell, founder and CEO of FarmLinks. “Buffalo Communications will help drive even more golfers, meeting planners and turf-management professionals to experience our offerings – and our Southern hospitality.”
“FarmLinks is the perfect business retreat, fun family outing and golf weekend with the guys,” says Rich Katz, managing director of Buffalo. “Its private feel, PGA TOUR-worthy course and unspoiled, stunning surroundings have guests returning time and again.”
Ranked the No. 1 course in Alabama by Golfweek, FarmLinks hosted the Alabama Golf Association’s 95th Men’s State Amateur Championship last week. Past tournament winners include Stewart Cink, Hubert Green, Gardner Dickinson, Jr. and many other well-known players.
About FarmLinks at Pursell Farms
Founded in 1999 by the Pursell family and located at Pursell Farms in Sylacauga, Ala., FarmLinks includes a one-of-a-kind agronomic research and demonstration facility; an 18-hole, 7,444-yard championship golf course open to the public; and The Experience at FarmLinks, a unique, turf education program in partnership with several of top products manufacturers in the industry. FarmLinks’ cutting-edge environment also offers high-tech meeting spaces, deluxe lodging and first-rate fishing and wildlife habitat with a five-stand clay shooting range and hunting adventures.
For more information about stay-and-play packages: 877.292.FARM (3276), www.farmlinks.org, http://www.facebook.com/farmlinks
About Buffalo Communications
Headquartered outside Washington, DC, Buffalo has offices in New York, Boston, Minneapolis, Pinehurst (N.C.) and Phoenix. Generating frequent, well-positioned exposure, the firm helps increase awareness, popularity and revenues for top brands. Buffalo’s client roster of domestic and international category leaders includes 2010 Ryder Cup host Celtic Manor Resort (Wales), PGA National Resort & Spa (Fla.), Kaua’i Visitors Bureau (golf co-op), Half Moon Bay Golf Links / Ritz-Carlton Half-Moon Bay (Calif.), Mission Hills Golf Club (China), ECCO, Fila Golf, Club Glove and more.
For more information: 703.761.1444, www.buffalocommunications.com.
Contact:
Dan Shepherd
Buffalo Communications
703.403.5317
dshepherd@buffalocommunications.com
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