Ginn Sports Entertainment is dedicated to the organization, production and marketing of Ginn Resorts professional sports properties, which includes professional golf tournaments on the LPGA and PGA TOUR Champions Tour and resort concerts. Teaming with this organizations Sports Marketing initiatives will put your Brand Marketing across many Demographics that will push you further than your competition.
Ginn Resorts is a privately-held development and management firm specializing in exclusive leisure lifestyle communities across the United States and the Caribbean. From private residential communities to luxury resort destinations, owners and guests at Ginn properties enjoy a variety of world-class recreational and entertainment opportunities. The common thread throughout every Ginn Resort is exceptional personalized service. The company has established itself as a brand synonymous with unique, exciting, and memorable life experiences. Headquartered in Celebration, Fla., the company's principals have more than three decades of experience in creating large-scale, master-planned resorts and recreation-oriented communities.
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Ginn Sports Entertainment (GSE) specializes in a new breed of professional golf tournament production and management. Combining Ginn Resorts' renowned standard of excellence for customer service and first class entertainment, each Ginn golf tournament provides members, spectators and participating players an unparalleled experience.
Ginn Sports Entertainment currently has four professional golf tournaments scheduled for 2007. Two PGA TOUR Champions Tour events to be held during February and March, followed by two LPGA Tour events to be held during April and late May/early June, all hosted at some of Ginn Resorts' finest communities.
The ACE Group Classic, PGA TOUR Champions Tour event will be held Feb. 19-25, 2007 at Quail West, a Ginn Club community. The Tournament Course will be a hybrid of the 36 holes at Quail West, designed by Arthur Hills. The Tournament front nine will be the back nine of the Preserve Course, with the Tournament back nine consisting of the front nine of the Lakes course.
The inaugural Ginn Championship at Hammock Beach is the first PGA TOUR Champions Tour event in Palm Coast, FL. Featuring a $2.5 million purse, one of the largest on tour, the tournament will be played March 26 - April 1 on the Jack Nicklaus Signature Course at Ocean Club at Hammock Beach.
The inaugural Ginn OPEN at Reunion Resort & Club, a Ginn Resort community, was one of the most highly-touted new events on the 2006 LPGA schedule. Featuring a $2.5 million purse, 49 of the top 50 players on the 2005 money list and a variety of music events highlighted by country duo Brooks & Dunn, the Ginn OPEN blazed new trails on the LPGA Tour. In 2007, the purse increases to $2.6 million and the tournament will be played on Tom Watson's Independence Course April 9-15. The Ginn OPEN will once again be televised nationally by The Golf Channel and CBS Sports.
The inaugural Ginn Tribute Hosted by ANNIKA, GSE's second LPGA Tour event, will be played at the Arnold Palmer designed RiverTowne Country Club Course at the Belvidere Resort in Mt. Pleasant, SC, May 28-June 3. The 72-hole event will feature a $2.6 million purse and be televised nationally by The Golf Channel and NBC Sports. The Ginn Tribute Hosted by ANNIKA will also recognize a different LPGA great each year by honoring them during ceremonies tournament week.
Ginn Resorts currently sponsors six professional athletes. The #1-ranked female golfer in the world and Hall of Famer, Annika Sorenstam, the #5 female golfer Cristie Kerr and rookie May Wood. On the PGA TOUR the company sponsors two-time US Open winner Lee Janzen, rising Tour stars Brian Gay and Lucas Glover.