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ECCO Golf Introduces 2009 Comfort Tech Van

Ecco‘s new Comfort Tech Van to serve as the centerpiece of a nationwide initiative facilitating retailer training and enhancing consumer awareness of the brand’s direct-injection technology.

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The Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort and Spa in St. Andrews, Scotland, launches a “Suite Golf” package that offers guaranteed tee times on St. Andrews’ Old Course. The three-night includes lodging at the five-star hotel, golf at the Old Course, along with a tee time at The Duke’s Course and a round at either the New or Jubilee Course. For information, email reservations@oldcoursehotel.co.uk. … Pawleys Plantation in Pawleys Island, S.C., offers a four-night “March Madness” golf package. Throughout March, the package includes accommodations, rounds on its Jack Nicklaus Signature Course and Founder’s Club, free replays and additional amenities at a savings of 40 percent. For information, visit www.pawleysplantation.com. … Cleveland Golf presents ProAmTeam.com, an interactive online fantasy league that provides golfers the opportunity to play in a PGA Tour pro-am. Each participant plays a round of golf and then selects three PGA Tour professionals from each stop on the ProAmTeam tour. All scores are calculated to create a team score. Throughout the tour, points are accumulated that can be redeemed for the latest Cleveland Golf merchandise. Players are also entered for a chance to win a playing spot in a real PGA Tour ProAm. For information, visit www.proamteam.com. … Belvedere Country Club in Hampstead, N.C., completes the renovation of its greens to Tifdwarf bermudagrass, and returns the greens back to their originally designed size. … The Golf Course Superintendents Association of New Jersey Foundation donates $10,500 to The Environmental Institute for Golf’s Robert Trent Jones Endowment Fund. … The Wintergreen Resort Golf Academy in Wintergreen, Va., will host a PGA Teaching Seminar, March 16-17. The event is open to teaching pros, along with resort guests and day visitors. For information, call 434.325.8251. … Kingsmill Resort and Spa in Williamsburg, Va., offers its “Signature Golf Package” through March 22. Guests who stay Sunday through Wednesday pay only $99 per person/per night for the package that includes one tee time per night of accommodations on any of Kingsmill’s three courses. For information, visit www.kingsmill.com. … Instructor Jim McLean offers weekly instructional tips at Armchair Golf Blog (armchairgolfblog.blogspot.com). … PGA Golf Catalunya, a 36-hole golf resort in Girona, Spain, is ranked No. 3 in the UK’s Golf Monthly inaugural “Top 20 European Courses.”

Glove It Expands Golf Sales Force

Glove It expands its golf sales force with the addition of Bart Berning as national sales manager and four new territory sales representatives.

New chairmen of Trustees and Links Management Committee

St. Andrews Links and the Links Management Committee appoints new chairmen to the board of trustees – Peter Forster, who succeeds Alastair Dempster after his three years as chairman, and Dr. John Mills, who succeeds Jim White after a six-year term.

Enjoy “The Best Of Daytona” With Golfpac Travel

Golfpac creates “The Best of Daytona” package, which pairs lodging at The Shores Resort and Spa with golf nearby at Indigo Lakes, Cypress Head and Halifax Plantation, starting from $360.53.

The Tribute Announces “Green Alliance” with Development Partners

The Tribute, a master-planned golf course community in The Colony, Texas, establishes a “Green Alliance” with its development partners to ensure environmental quality and energy efficiency. The consortium includes Tripp Davis and Associates and PGA Tour player Justin Leonard, designers of the under construction New Course at The Tribute.