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Champions Tour Events To Feature "Dave Pelz Scoring Game School" In 2003 Pelz Instructors and Champions Tour Players To Conduct Series Of Clinics Designed To Provide Game-Improvement Experience For Spectators Contact Jeff Adams PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (January 13, 2003) - The PGA TOUR's Champions Tour and Dave Pelz Scoring Game School have entered into an agreement whereby the short-game expert's staff will stage instructional clinics featuring Pelz instructors and Champions Tour players at a number of Champions Tour events in 2003. The first Dave Pelz Scoring Game clinic will take place on Sunday, Feb. 9th at the Royal Caribbean Golf Classic in Key Biscayne, FL outside Miami. The complete schedule of clinics, which in most cases will take place during the middle of tournament week and last 60-90 minutes, will be announced in the near future. The clinics will be hosted by seasoned professionals from the Dave Pelz Scoring Game School staff, with Dave Pelz on site at a few select tournaments. "The Dave Pelz Scoring Game School clinics will accent the tremendous short-game skills of Champions Tour players and provide a truly up close and personal instructional experience to golf fans attending these tournaments," said Jeff Monday, Senior Vice President and Champions Tour Chief of Operations. "The Champions Tour's game-improvement platform will benefit greatly from Dave Pelz organization's presence at tournaments during the 2003 season and hopefully fans will use this program to improve their own short-game play." "We're proud to be associated with the Champions Tour and look forward to exposing our short game and putting instruction to a whole new audience at some really great venues," said Pelz. "This Tour is full of great players and great personalities and I think everyone who attends is going to have a lot of fun at these events." Pelz staff will show clinic attendees basic skills for improved play on and around the greens. Among the subjects taught in regular sessions of Pelz clinics are: correct address positions and mechanics for various wedge shots, building reliable chipping techniques, aiding confidence for bunker shots, proper setup and stroke mechanics for putting, reading greens, and accurately measuring break. Participating tournament directors will have the option to customize one or more clinics for the general public and/or specific audiences such as junior golfers, contest winners, the media or sponsors and guests. The clinics will be free to all ticketed spectators. The sessions are designed to be interactive with some fans receiving hands-on instruction and all fans having the opportunity to have questions answered by either the Dave Pelz instructors or a participating Champions Tour player. The Dave Pelz Scoring Game School clinics will be an important component of the Champions Tour's Fan Features for 2003, specifically its game-improvement platform, which is designed to lower scores and increase the level of enjoyment of Champions Tour spectators and television viewers. The Dave Pelz Scoring Game School applies Pelz's practical, scientific approach to golf, honed through decades of research and one-on-one coaching of many of the game's top professionals. The former NASA physicist's research has proven that golfers lose almost 80 percent of their shots to par inside of 100 yards. To that end, the school's curriculum focuses strictly on what Pelz defines as "The Scoring Game"- a combination of the short game (distance wedges, pitching, chipping and sand play) and putting- which comprise 60 to 65 percent of the total number of shots played per round." "Three out of every five shots you take on the golf course are played inside of 100 yards," said Pelz. "Pelz Golf Institute research has proven that these scoring shots -- the distance wedges, pitches, chips, sand shots and putts -- have the greatest impact on your scores. That's why we focus on 100 yards and in." The Champions Tour is one of the PGA TOUR's three professional golf tours (PGA TOUR, Champions Tour and Nationwide Tour), and features the world's premier golfers age 50 and up. Known as the Senior PGA Tour since its inception in 1980, it was renamed the Champions Tour last fall as part of a rebranding in which the three Tours were aligned more closely under the umbrella of the PGA TOUR. The Champions Tour schedule in 2003 consists of 31 official events offering more than $52 million in prize money. |