Treetops Resort Creates Playing Spots For Par-Three Shootout Pro-Am
Individual Amateurs and Corporate Foursomes
Can Play
with Major Champions!
Treetops Village, Mich. (April 5, 2006)
- Treetops Resort’s annual ING Par-3 Shootout is for the first time,
making its popular Pro-Am event available to individual amateurs along
with corporate foursomes.
Pro-Am participants are guaranteed to play with one of the four
shootout contestants: Phil Mickelson, Fred Couples, Craig Stadler, or
Andy North, and a second round with Rick Smith, or a former PGA Tour or
Nationwide Tour player. The Pro-Am will be held June 26 and 27 on the
Threetops Par-3 course, just before each day’s professional shootout
competition.
“This is a very unique opportunity that we are very excited to present
to amateur golfers everywhere – a guaranteed opportunity to play with a
major championship winner,” said Scott Head, Director of Golf
Operations at Treetops Resort. “Unlike any other Pro-Am event you’ll
find, our participants get to compete with the professionals in the
morning and then watch the guys shoot it out in the afternoon!”
Head says that the deluxe lodging, draw party, admission to the VIP
hospitality tent, dinner with the professionals, and unlimited golf on
some the best courses in America make the Treetops Par-3 Shootout
Pro-Am the opportunity of a lifetime.
“Golfers looking for an incredible experience or a company looking to
do some high-end entertaining could leverage this into something very
special,” said Head.
Each Pro-Am team consists of a professional golfer and four amateurs.
The individual package ($6,500.00) includes participation in the
Pro-Am on Monday and Tuesday, lodging Sunday and Monday evenings,
meals, an invitation for two people to the reception and pairings party
Sunday evening, an invitation for two people to Monday night’s dinner
with the professionals, two VIP tickets to the two-day Par-3 Shootout,
access for two to the “Shootout Hospitality Tent”, preferred viewing
areas at each tee and green, VIP Parking, a Pro-Am gift, and a
commemorative photo. In addition, the package includes unlimited golf
on Sunday afternoon, Monday, and Tuesday on any one of the four 18-hole
courses at Treetops Resort.
The corporate package ($25,000.00) includes a foursome spot in the
pro-am and all of the above amenities, plus the company logo on the
Par-3 Shootout brochure, a sponsor banner in the hospitality tent, and
a corporate web link on the Par-3 Shootout website.
For more information please visit www.treetops.com.
For additional questions or to sign up, please contact Scott Head,
Director of Golf Operations at 989-732-6711, Extension 2560 or email shead@treetops.com.
Treetops Resort has hosted the made for TV event for seven years.
The popular Par 3 Shootout began seven years ago in 1999. Since then it
has hosted some of golf’s greatest players including the games greatest
player Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, as well as other
major championship winners Lee Janzen, Fred Couples, Ray Floyd, and
Phil Mickelson to name a few.
The Rick Smith-designed “Threetops” Course was named by Travel &
Leisure Magazine as the number one par-3 course in the nation in their
list of America’s Top 5 Par-3 Courses in December 2002. This
award, coupled with GolfWeek’s previous ranking of Threetops as
America’s best Par-3 Course, offers bragging rights to last a lifetime
for any player. This unique course features holes that range from 135
to 216 yards with a 145-foot vertical drop on No. 3.
Treetops Resort boasts 81 holes of championship golf by designers
Robert Trent Jones, Sr., Tom Fazio and Rick Smith. Treetops is a
seven-time recipient of Golf Magazine’s “Silver Medal Resort” award and
was rated No. 32 in “America’s Top 75 Golf Resorts” by Golf
Digest.
As a full-service four-season resort, Treetops offers 23 downhill ski
runs, expanded tubing and terrain-park, and snowboard half-pipe.
Lodging at Treetops consists of 240 guest rooms including standard and
deluxe rooms, suites and hospitality rooms and 2 and 3 bedroom
condominiums. A 10,000 square foot convention center is available
for conferences along with a variety of other meeting facilities.
Rounding out the amenities are three restaurants, the Treetops Spa, a
child development center, retail shops offering a variety of clothing
and equipment, indoor and outdoor pools and much more.
Media Contacts:
Resort & Golf Marketing
Kevin Frisch, (989) 614-0241, kevin@resortandgolf.com
Dave Richards, (248) 642-6420, dave@resortandgolf.com
