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BestCourses, GreenFees, and AllGolfTV organizing 1st Annual Charitable Golf Tournament recognizing Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture, Alice, & Junior Golf.

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BestCourses, GreenFees, and AllGolfTV organizing 1st Annual Charitable Golf Tournament recognizing Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture, Alice, & Junior Golf.

 

BestCourses.com (www.BestCourses.com) , Greenfees.com (www.GreenFees.com) , and AllGolfTv.com (www.AllGolfTV.com) , have agreed to become the Organizing Founders for the 1st Annual Randy Pausch Golf Tournament benefiting the Alice Foundation, as a celebration to The Last Lecture, its profound effect on the people who have seen it and, the lives that have been changed as a result.

 

Randy Pausch is a Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon, and co-founder of the Entertainment Technology Center. He also serves as the Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Stage 3 research group, where he oversees the development of Alice (www.Alice.org)  which is a computer software program that allows its users top build virtual worlds.

He was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator and a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow. In 1995, he spent a Sabbatical with the Walt Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio, and currently consults with Imagineering on interactive theme park attractions, particularly for the “DisneyQuest” virtual-reality based theme park. Dr. Pausch is the author or co-author of five books and over 60 reviewed journal and conference proceedings articles, and his primary interests are human-computer interaction, entertainment technology, and undergraduate education.

Pausch, a professor who’s dying of pancreatic cancer, has bumped A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle’s spiritual self-help guide, from atop USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list and he was recently interviewed by Diane Sawyer on Prime Time Live. The Last Lecture can be viewed on AllGolfTV (www.AllGolfTV.com) by visiting the On Demand box. 

 

“BestCourses.com, GreenFees.com, and AllGolfTV are tremendously honored to have the opportunity to celebrate Dr. Pausch, those he has inspired and those he will continue to touch. We hope that we can do his vision justice.” Said Gerry Kirkpatrick, Founder and President of GreenFees.

 

The initial tournament will be held at single location near Carnegie Mellon University that will be announced soon. Subsequent tournaments will be held a multiple locations each month and this Press Release serves as a call to golf courses to fill out an application to participate.

 

Applications can be obtained by contacting Gerry or Eileen via email at gerry@greenfees.com or Eileen@allgolftv.com

 

The money raised from the event will benefit the Alice Program, Pancreatic Cancer Research, and provide scholarships for the winners of the design contest associated with this Event.  The contest** is open to all high school students and is focused on introducing the Alice software and legacy of Randy.  The contest requires participants to create a virtual world video presentation that would promote Junior Golf.

 

 

BestCourses has the tournament experience, as well as the ability to choose the golf course that offers the best facilities for this venue.

 

GreenFees has developed the software to automate the sign up and tee time management which is imperative to the organization of these types of events.

 

AllGolfTV has the Live Video streaming capability to broadcast the tournament in conjunction with Wi-FiTV.com and the ability for golf communities and golfers to communicate in real time about their involvement or unique events using the Live Chat feature located directly under the viewing screen.

 

**Tournament and Contest rules will be posted on AllGolfTV’s and GreenFees’ websites.

David Leadbetter Signs Multi-Year Agreement

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April 23, 2008

 

David Leadbetter Signs Multi-Year Agreement

With Wilhelmina Artist Management

 

CHAMPIONSGATE, Florida — David Leadbetter,—the world’s No. 1 golf instructor and coach to countless tour professionals worldwide, including newly crowned 2008 Masters champion Trevor Immelman—announces he has signed a multi-year agreement with Wilhelmina Artist Management of New York City.

 

Wilhelmina Artist Management, a division of Wilhelmina International, will represent David Leadbetter as his exclusive worldwide agent relative to all appearances, endorsements and licensing businesses. Additionally, Wilhelmina will manage the business affairs and growth strategy for the David Leadbetter Golf Academies in North America, the premier brand for golf instruction throughout the world, as well as manage Leadbetter’s contractual relationship with IMG.

 

“I am extremely pleased and excited to be associated with such a superior agency,” says Leadbetter, whose announcement comes close on the heels of his longtime student Immelman’s wire-to-wire victory at the Masters. “We are developing a comprehensive plan for Academy development and future growth, and I’m sure Wilhelmina’s assistance and guidance with this new expansion will be very successful.”

 

In 1998, as an innovator in the industry, Wilhelmina Models became the first fashion company to develop a specific division to exclusively represent premier talent in the worlds of music, sports and entertainment. Today, that division called Wilhelmina Artist Management, is one of the industry’s finest, with a roster that includes Fergie, Natasha Bedingfield, Heather Graham, Amy Smart and Justin Chambers, among others.

 

Wilhelmina Artist Management creates, develops and manages celebrity-powered campaigns, product lines, private brand licensing, endorsements, sponsorships, talent appearances and corporate entertainment strategies.

 

“Wilhelmina is proud and honored to represent David Leadbetter, one of the legends in the golf world, and we are equally as honored to manage his Academies in North America,” says Dieter Esch, Chairman Wilhelmina Artist Management, which measurably extends brand relevance and increases brand loyalty to targeted audiences. “The purpose of this transaction is to further improve the Leadbetter brand worldwide and expand the Academy business.”

 

Leadbetter is the author of seven books that have sold more than two million copies, has written and produced more than a dozen DVDs and is the designer of several golf training aids that have sold well over a million units worldwide. Leadbetter—an honorary member and Professional Golfers’ Association Master Professional, Golf Channel Instruction Editor and Golf Digest Teaching Professional—boasts a clientele that includes the cream of the crop of the world’s finest tour professionals, including four players who have held the No. 1 spot in the Official World Golf Ranking. Over the past 30 years his players have amassed more than a dozen Major Championship titles—with Immelman becoming the latest—and more than 100 individual worldwide tournament victories. His coaching has spanned three decades, and he often has been recognized as the “man who invented the golf instruction industry.”

 

Leadbetter is known worldwide as the “master of the art of teaching the golf swing.” His unmatched experience and keen sense for utilizing emerging technologies to evolve his time-tested teaching methods and game-improvement products and services assures that David Leadbetter Enterprises and David Leadbetter Golf Academies will continue to play a major role in the growth of the modern-day golf industry.