Golf TV/Radio Host, Journalist & Author Ann Liguori To Join Advisory Board Of Greg Norman-Designed Course In Ireland

Contact Ira H. Silverman
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NEW YORK (February 14, 2002) -- Renowned sportscaster and author Ann Liguori has been elected to the Advisory Board of Doonbeg Golf Club, a new Greg Norman-designed course located in the west of Ireland. Liguori joins a prestigious board that also includes Norman, George Mitchell, Jim Nantz, Jim Awtrey, Wayne Huizenga, Johann Rupert and Sir Frank Lowe among others.

Liguori, who resides in New York City and Long Island, is president of Ann Liguori Productions, Inc. In this capacity, she owns, hosts and is executive producer of the long-running "Sports Innerview with Ann Liguori" television series; and is also one of the original sports talk on-air personalities on New York's WFAN radio station, where she still hosts a weekly live, five-hour interview and call-in show. In addition, Liguori covers major golf and tennis tournaments for WFAN, and is also the author of "A Passion for Golf, Celebrity Musings About the Game."

For more information on Liguori, visit www.annliguori.com.

According to Liguori, Doonbeg Golf Club -- which she played with Norman during the taping of one of her programs -- may very well be the last true links course to be built in either Ireland or Britain. The site is along 1.5 miles of crescent-shaped beach and dunes, and the ocean is visible from the green, fairway or tee of 16 of the 18 holes. In addition, the dunes at Doonbeg, which are centuries old, reach almost 100 feet in altitude.

Norman, a two-time British Open champion, was selected to be the course architect in view of both his design skill and his "least disturbance" philosophy of routing courses to fit existing terrains, Liguori added.

Like many traditional Irish links, Doonbeg Golf Club will be a private club with some public play. International memberships are being offered, and there will also be a local club component for Doonbeg-area residents. The course is expected to open for play in the summer of 2002.

When complete, the site will contain luxury accommodations, a leisure centre and a golf village with a pub, restaurant and golf shop -- all in keeping with traditional Irish architecture found in the countryside. More information can be found at www.doonbeggolfclub.com.