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Tournament Golf Association of America Joins Forces with eGolfScore
Published: 05/27/2009
Flemington, NJ, May 27, 2009 -- eGolfScore, the leading provider of real-time wireless scoring for individual golfers as well as corporate, celebrity and charity golf events across North America and Europe, has been named the Official Scoring System (OSS) for the 2009 TGAA tour.
“The TGAA Tour prides itself on enhancing and improving the golfer’s experience year after year” said Dennis Baca, President and CEO, TGAA. “Providing our golfers with the closest opportunity to ‘Experience the Dream’ and the thrill of competition felt on the elite professional tours, a patent pending handicap that provides a level playing field for players of all abilities and our detailed attention to customer service are our top priorities. Using a valued partner like eGolfScore for the tour this year certainly helps us deliver on our commitments to each and every stop of the tour.”
TGAA Tour members and guests will experience real-time wireless scoring via handheld devices, big-screen TV leaderboards strategically placed at the golf courses the tour will visit and a worldwide Internet broadcast of their tournaments via eGolfScore’s popular “View An Event Live”. Digital photographs of TGAA Tour players (posted on the TV leaderboards and the Internet) will round out the experience for all TGAA participants. Advertisers and sponsors will receive a tremendous benefit from eGolfScore’s Media Delivery System (eMDStm).
According to Joe Kaplan, eGolfScore Co-Founder and CEO: “We have been providing eGolfScore for corporate and charity golf outings for several years now, and some golf tours. We are very excited to provide our real-time wireless scoring system for the TGAA Tour, creating a first-class experience for golfers, and significantly enhancing the value for advertisers and sponsors via our Media Delivery System. The TGAA Tour offers a terrific venue for local and regional sponsors to reach a highly desirable and targeted audience in a unique and interactive way. Fashioning our products and services consistent with the industry’s 'best’ makes us the leader in our category – and for that we are very proud to be the Official Scoring System of the TGAA Tour for 2009.”
About TGAA Tour
Since 1996, the TGAA Tour (www.tgaatour.com) has been the premier Pro-Net tour in the Mid-Atlantic. The TGAA Tour is a member organization that offers all golfers, regardless of age, gender, skill level or handicap, the most exciting advancement in competitive golf. As a member of the TGAA Tour, you will be personally challenged as you compete against yourself, the course and your handicap. You will enjoy the company of other golf enthusiasts in addition to competing for cash as a TGAA professional or for certificates as an amateur. The events are professionally managed, governed by the USGA Rules of Golf and use a patent pending handicap system developed from TGAA tournament scores only. The goal is to develop and maintain the largest professional golf membership organization providing services for the avid to aspiring golfer - both locally and nationally. Come…"Experience the Dream"™
About eGolfScore
Making amateur golfers feel like PGA Tour pros since 1999, eGolfScore is the leader in leveraging the power of digital media, real-time wireless communications and the world of golf for individual golfers as well as corporate, celebrity and charity golf outings across North America and Europe.
Handheld wireless scoring devices, big-screen TV leaderboards and Internet broadcast of amateur golf outings around the world comprise eGolfScore’s real-time wireless Event Scoring Program (eSP). Combine eGolfScore’s traditional eSP offering with highly-targeted promotional opportunities and you benefit from the industry’s most unique, highly-differentiated eGolfScore Media Delivery System (eMDS™).
Key eGolfScore clients include some of the world’s most prestigious golf, corporate and charity organizations, including Trump National Golf, American Cancer Society (ACS), Verizon Wireless, Make-A-Wish Foundation and Autism Speaks to name a few. Our Individual Scoring Product (iSP) is easy to use and enables golfers to score their golf rounds with their own mobile phone (or online via the web), track statistics, and help improve their golf game! It's a great teaching tool! Includes RoundCast® to broadcast your score to your family and friends via the web! Visit www.egolfscore.com/wireless on your mobile phone.