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Meeting planners and suppliers gather annually for golf, hospitality and a good time. Event: M&C Annual Golf Invitational The 2006 event was held at The Wigwam Golf Resort & Spa in Litchfield Park, Ariz. This year’s event will be held Sept. 16-19 at Hershey Resorts, Hershey, Pa.Meetings and Conventions magazine’s annual golf invitational began in 1992 as a relationship marketing event bringing

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The ATT Pebble Beach National Pro-Am is a 72-hole PGA TOUR golf championship dating back to the 1930’s when Bing Crosby gathered a ‘few friends’ to raise money for charity... and have a little fun.Top TOUR professionals team with Hollywood celebrities, world renowned musicians and the captains of industry as they compete for a $5.6 million purse. Foursomes rotate to Poppy Hills, Spyglass Hill and

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The Pebble Beach Golf LinksSince 1919, the exquisite beauty and unique challenge of Pebble Beach Golf Links has thrilled golfers and spectators alike. Pebble Beach has been the site of golf's most prestigious tournaments, including the annual AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, the 1972, '82, '92 and 2000 U.S. Open Championships. Pebble Beach Golf Links is ranked the No. 1 Public Course in

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Annually sporting the largest crowds on the PGA TOUR, the FBR Open has gained legendary status on TOUR for being unlike any other golf tournament. Yes, the Phoenix TOUR stop is different from all the rest, but what makes it so? It starts with the unbelievable golf played by the likes of Aaron Baddeley, Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh on the beautiful TPC Scottsdale and ends with the biggest

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Not long ago, Robb Report, one of the nation’s leading upscale lifestyle publications, named Scottsdale, Arizona as the “Best Place to Live in the United States for Golf.” To folks in the know, the announcement came as no surprise. So who are these “folks in the know?” Basically, they’re everyone from vacationers to longtime residents to PGA TOUR pros. The prestigious award only confirmed what

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The Buick Invitational, is a PGA Tour professional golf tournament played in the San Diego, California area in the early part of the Tour season, known as the "West Coast Swing." The tournament was originally known as the San Diego Open, and was noted for having singer-actor Andy Williams as a celebrity host during much of its existence. The Buick Invitational is the 4th event on the 2007 PGA

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The Buick Invitational, is a PGA Tour professional golf tournament played in the San Diego, California area in the early part of the Tour season, known as the "West Coast Swing." The tournament was originally known as the San Diego Open, and was noted for having singer-actor Andy Williams as a celebrity host during much of its existence. The Buick Invitational is the 4th event on the 2007 PGA

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According to Meeting Professionals International, more than $122 billion is spent annually in the U.S. meetings industry (2006). This money is most commonly spent at resort hotels, city hotels, suburban hotels, conference centers, restaurants, country clubs, convention centers, and at nearly every unique venue imaginable.Whether at a corporate environment, association, non-profit or government

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The Bob Hope Chrysler Classic is a professional golf tournament played each January in California's Coachella Valley. Part of the PGA Tour's early season West Coast Swing, this tournament is well known for its celebrity pro-am, as well as having five daily 18-hole rounds of competition vs. the PGA Tour standard of four rounds. Currently, "the Hope" is the third event on the Tour's annual schedule

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Planning a Golf VacationPlanning a golf getaway? Maximize your time on the course by taking a few simple steps. Call on-staff golf pro in advance. The key to traveling comfortably is traveling light. You don't need to bring along every club you own. Instead, research your course ahead of time, and decide which clubs you can't live without. Rent top-of-the-line clubs. You can also try renting golf

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The Sony Golf Open in Hawaii is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour, and is part of the tour's FedEx Cup Series. It has been contested at the Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii since the event's modern-day inception in 1965. Starting in 1971, the tournament was held in either January or February. Currently, it is held in January, the second overall event and the first full-field

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The Plantation Golf Course • Kapalua Golf Resort, MauiThe Mercedes-Benz Championship is the opening event of golf's PGA Tour season. The field is restricted to golfers who won an event on the Tour in the previous season. It is played the first weekend in January, and has been at Kapalua Resort's Plantation Course in Kapalua, Hawaii, since 1999. The event was played in Las Vegas, Nevada from the

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Trump the GolferTrump plays to a 5 handicap and has been a member of Winged Foot since he was in his 20s. As a student at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in the late 1960s, he began playing at public courses such as Cobb's Creek in Philadelphia. His recent building boom has given him more of a taste for developing world-class courses than playing them."I've made a lot of money on

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Free golf! beer! Free boat outings! Free taxes!Even as CEO pay has increased, their perquisites, from personal flights on the corporate jet or yacht, to cars and drivers, to country-club fees and home alarm systems, have persisted.The perks mean free stuff for a crowd that could afford to pay its own way. After all, the median 2006 total pay for the CEOs at 386 Standard & Poor's 500 companies

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From Rob Hard (at About.com),The golf event is a favorite of nearly every corporation and organization. And why not? For corporations, a golf event allows hosts to have a captive audience with decision makers for as much time as an entire day. For non-profits and associations, it also serves as a key activity that creates opportunities to interact with their membership or even raise a significant

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Gainesville, FLChris DiMarco and Camilo Villegas, former Gator golf standouts, celebrated Florida sophomore quarterback Tim Tebow’s (Jacksonville , Fla.) winning of the Heisman Trophy at the Merrill Lynch Shootout on NBC on Sunday afternoon. Mark Calcavecchia, UF’s all-time money leader, won the event with his partner, Woody Austin. The duo struck the storied Heisman pose as they were walking up

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If you were to planning a golf event for a large corporate outing, what do you look for in a golf course?Below is a brief list of things that I think would be inportant. Please give your input as to what carries a lot of weight and what doesn't.Conference center availabilityExperience in large golf event managementMaximum/minimum participants requiredGolf course rental feesAmount of rental golf

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New Club Rental Service Offers Suplemental Help to Golf CoursesATLANTA , GA. – International Golf Rental & Sales Incorporated (IGRS, Inc) announced today that it is expanding to serve all of the United States. Low inventory is not longer a worry for golf courses around the country. This innovative service allows golf courses to reach out to their IGRS rental partner to help supplement their large

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