Tickets on Sale Now for 2008 Ginn Tribute Hosted by ANNIKA
For Immediate Release, April 2008
Tickets to the Ginn Tribute Hosted by ANNIKA are on sale now. This year, fans have the opportunity to purchase the Family Sunday Package, which allows fans to attend Family Day on Sunday, June 1. Members of the military, the fire department and the police department will receive special discounted rates.
Fans can purchase tickets by visiting www.ginntribute.com. The $2.6 million event will take place once again at the RiverTowne Country Club in Charleston, S.C., May 26-June 1, 2008.
“This year the Ginn Tribute hosted by ANNIKA will offer fans an unforgettable experience,” Tournament Director Becky Newell said. “With the Family Sunday Package and special rates for members of the military, the fire department, the police department and senior citizens, there is something for everyone. The Charleston community can’t afford to miss this wonderful and exciting event.”
Ticket Packages are as follows:
2008 Ticket Packages Advance Gate
Practice Rounds (Monday & Tuesday) FREE FREE
Daily (Wednesday - Sunday) $20 $30
Weekly (Wednesday – Sunday) $60 $80
Military/Fire Dept./Police/Sr. (Daily) $10 $15
Military/Fire Dept./Police/Sr. (Weekly) $30 $40
Children 17 and under with a paid adult is admitted FREE
Family Sunday Package $55 $66
(2 daily tickets, 4 hot dogs, 4 snacks, 4 soft drinks and a tournament poster)
The inaugural 2007 Ginn Tribute hosted by ANNIKA saw Nicole Castrale earn her first LPGA title. Castrale defeated Lorena Ochoa in a sudden-death one-hole playoff to win the $390,000 paycheck.
About Annika
Annika is the greatest female golfer of our generation and often regarded as the best player in LPGA history. Her prestigious list of accomplishments includes her 2003 induction into the World Golf and LPGA Halls of Fame, ten Major Championships, 85 worldwide professional victories, eight LPGA Player of the Year Awards, and participation on eight Solheim Cup teams. Annika has worked hard on her off-the-course businesses, which include the ANNIKA Academy, the ANNIKA Foundation, the ANNIKA Collection with Cutter & Buck, numerous golf course design projects, tournaments she hosts on both the LPGA and Ladies European Tours, along with her website and blog.
About Ginn Resorts
Ginn Resorts is a privately-held resort development and management firm specializing exclusive leisure lifestyle and vacation destination communities. The firm owns and operates communities across the United States and the Caribbean. Headquartered in Celebration, Fla., the firm’s principals have more than three decades of experience in creating large-scale, master-planned resorts and recreation-oriented communities. For more information, visit www.ginnresorts.com.
About IMG and IMG Media
IMG is the world’s premier Sports, Entertainment and Media Company. IMG is a diversified global business with two major business segments: IMG Sports & Entertainment, and IMG Media. IMG employs over 2,300 people in 30 countries. Forstmann Little & Co. purchased IMG in 2004.
IMG Sports & Entertainment includes: consulting services; event ownership and management; fashion events and models representation; licensing; golf course design; client representation in golf, tennis, baseball, broadcasting, hockey, football, European football, rugby, cricket, motorsports, coaching, Olympic sports and action sports. In addition, IMG Academies are the world’s largest and most advanced, state-of-the-art, multi-sport training and educational facility, delivering world-class sports training experiences to over 12,000 junior, collegiate, adult and professional athletes each year.
IMG Media, which includes our content production subsidiaries TWI and Darlow Smithson Productions, is recognized as a global leader in the delivery of traditional and new media content and services, with Internet, broadband and mobile expertise, transforming how audiences access and interact with content. IMG Media produces and distributes over 9,000 hours of sports, documentary, docu-drama, entertainment, and popular factual content annually, over multiple platforms across 200 countries, including award-winning television and radio programming. It also represents the broadcast rights to many of the world’s premier sporting events and has the world’s biggest sports archive with more than 200,000 hours of footage.
