Greensboro, Ga. (July 16, 2014) – Hall of Fame wide receiver Jerry Rice has been named to the field for the inaugural “Big Break Invitational Reynolds Plantation.”
The milestone event – a 72-hole tournament featuring a select field that encompasses past Big Break champions – including some now playing on the world’s top professional tours as well as the series’ most memorable competitors from the past 21 seasons – is to be played on Reynolds Plantation’s award-winning Jack Nicklaus-designed Great Waters course Sept. 30 – Oct. 3, 2014.
Rice was part of the winning team on “Big Break NFL Puerto Rico” last year and will have his two winning teammates – journeyman mini-tour pro Isaac “Sasquatch” Sanchez and Symetra Tour pro Emily Talley – as fellow competitors at Reynolds Plantation.
Popular with sports fans both for his football career and appearance on “Dancing with the Stars,” Rice should be a major attraction for golf fans – who for the first time will be allowed in the gallery to see live action at Golf Channel’s Big Break Invitational.
Reynolds Plantation is providing complimentary tickets for those who want to be in the gallery. Up to four tickets can be requested at the tournament website, www.reynoldsplantation.com/big-break-invitational, while groups larger than four should contact info@reynoldsplantation.com.
Big Break Invitational Reynolds Plantation will air live on Golf Channel, with some of the most memorable competitors from the past 21 seasons in the field of 40 men and women, all with their eyes on a share of a $300,000 total purse.
The first two rounds will feature a modified Stableford format (players earning points for birdie and higher and negative points for bogey and lower), with the 10 men and 10 women earning the most points making the 36-hole cut. Thursday’s third round will feature match play (five men vs. five men, and five women vs. five women), with 10 match-play winners advancing to Friday’s final round of 18-holes of stroke play.
Established in 1992, Great Waters is one of Reynolds Plantation’s five award-winning courses. A par 72, the course underwent a renovation in 2009 that included a conversion of its greens from the original Penncross Bentgrass to Miniverde Bermudagrass and a restoration of all of its bunkers – a project that was overseen by Nicklaus. The golf course is ranked among the best in Georgia, this year No. 3 on the Golfweek list of best in the state.
Great Waters has hosted elite competition in the past, including the 2008 PGA Professional National Championship. From 1995 to 1997, Great Waters was the site for the Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf (now the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship). It also is the home of the prestigious Linger Longer Invitational, an annual men’s intercollegiate tournament, and the annual Chick-fil-A Bowl Challenge, a charity golf event featuring the country’s premier head coaches, celebrities and former athletes from the same universities competing against their rivals.
About Reynolds Plantation
Reynolds Plantation, located between Atlanta and Augusta, Ga., is situated along more than 374 miles of Lake Oconee shoreline and features six championship golf courses, dining, swimming pools, pedestrian trails, marinas, a tennis center and a wellness campus. Reynolds Plantation is also home to The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, a 251-room lakefront resort and spa, which was named a 2014 AAA Five Diamond Lodging and 2014 Forbes Four-Star resort. The community is located about an hour and a half from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. For more information, visit www.reynoldsplantation.com.
Real estate and other amenities are owned by Oconee Land Development Company LLC and/or other subsidiaries and affiliates of MetLife, Inc. (collectively “OLDC”), and are not owned or operated by MetLife. MetLife is not engaged in home building, leasing, resales or brokerage activities at Reynolds Plantation. OLDC may not own homes, condos or cottages; availability varies and is subject to withdrawal without notice. Obtain the Property Report required by Federal law and read it before signing anything. No Federal agency has judged the merits or value, if any of this property. The California Department of Real Estate has not inspected, examined, or qualified this offering. This is not intended to be an offer to sell nor a solicitation of offers to buy real estate in Reynolds Plantation by residents of HI, ID, NY, OR, or any other jurisdiction where prohibited by law. No offering can be made to residents of New York until an offering plan is filed with the Department of Law of the State of New York. Access and rights to recreational amenities may be subject to fees, membership dues or limitations.
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