Qualifying Sites in Florida, California, Arizona and Texas provide tests for
The Golf Championships: an innovative $10 million Golf Tournament Series on CBS
Orlando, FL – The Golf Championships’ Million-Dollar Invitational, which allows the everyday golfer the opportunity to experience high-stakes golf, named its four qualifying sites for next year’s $10 million global golf tournament series that will air on CBS.
The qualifying school process begins Jan. 27-28, 2013 at Bella Collina in Montverde, FL, before moving west to Brookside Golf Club in Pasadena, CA, March 7-8. The following weekend, March 12-13, Southern Dunes Golf Club in Maricopa, AZ, welcomes qualifiers, before the qualifying school series wraps up March 18-19 at Indian Creek Golf Club in Carrollton, TX.
“We are pleased with the variety and quality of courses we have secured to qualify players for our inaugural Million Dollar Invitational,” said Kent Atherton, CEO of The Golf Championships Inc. “Qualifying for an event series of this magnitude deserves courses that will test every element of a player’s game and we feel these courses will reward the best shot- makers.”
Designed by Nick Faldo, who used the English Highlands as his inspiration, Bella Collina features open fairways, sweeping dunes and takes into account local hillsides and a forest. The Florida qualifying event was scheduled earlier to accommodate players who plan on attending the PGA Show in Orlando, which is only a 30-minute drive to Bella Collina.
Located in the shadow of the iconic Rose Bowl, which is borders on three sides, Brookside was designed by William Bell, who created dozens of Southern California courses. It played host to the 1968 Los Angeles Open, won by Billy Casper.
A Lee Schmidt-Brian Curley creation, with input from Fred Couples, Southern Dunes is one of the most decorated courses in Arizona and currently ranked No. 5 by Golf Magazine among the Top Courses You Can Play in Arizona.
Located in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton, Indian Creek is situated along the Trinity River. Its Creek Course, which recently underwent a redesign and renovation, features generous fairways, steep bunkers and large, undulating greens. Golf Digest named it a Top-10 Best New Golf Course selection in 2004.
The Million Dollar Invitational is open to any and all players not currently holding a card on the PGA TOUR, Champions Tour, the European Tour or the LPGA. Each qualifying event is 36 holes, stroke-play, with the top 144 players advancing into all of the Million Dollar Invitational events – 54-hole, stroke-play tournaments that all feature a $300,000 purse.
From there, 10 finalists – the nine best scores plus one sponsor’s exemption – will compete in a nine-hole shootout for “winner-take-all” prize of $1 million. The Million Dollar Invitational shootout series will be televised monthly on CBS, starting in May 2013.
The entry fee for each Qualifying event is $2,500 and players can enter multiple events by paying multiple entry fees.
Registration is now open and entry forms are available to download online by going to:
http://www.thegolfchampionships.com/events-main-page/million-dollar-invitationals/
About The Golf Championships, Inc.
The Golf Championships is seeking America’s undiscovered golf talent and the inaugural 2013 Season will host Million Dollar Invitational events at eight locations around the world. Each Million Dollar Invitational event will feature a full field of 144 players in a 54-hole tournament with a $300,000 purse. Ten finalists immediately move on to a 9-hole shootout elimination televised by CBS Sports, for a “winner take all” prize of $1 million and potential life changing opportunity.
For more information, please visit www.thegolfchampionships.com
The Golf Championships, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Armada Sports and
Entertainment, Inc.
About Armada Sports and Entertainment, Inc.
Armada is a FL-based sports marketing company engaged in owning, developing and producing nationally televised sports & entertainment events. Armada currently owns The Golf Championships, a series of unique competitions in the sport, known as the Million Dollar Invitationals, The World Putting Championships, and The Celebrity Golf Challenges.
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