Ginn’s announcement highlights value of Champion Tournament to Palm Coast and Flagler County, Florida

 May 25, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Lauren Skowyra, Ginn Resorts, 407-973-2084

GINN CHAMPIONSHIP DONATES $250,000 TO AREA CHARITIES; $95,000 TO THE FLORIDA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION, STUART F. MEYER HOSPICE HOUSE

PALM COAST, Fla., May 29, 2007 – A special presentation by Bobby Ginn, President and CEO of Ginn Resorts will be made to Florida Hospital Flagler on behalf of the Stuart F. Meyer Hospice House on Tuesday, May 29 at 11 a.m. on the Grand Event Lawn at Ginn Hammock Beach Resort. The Ginn Championship at Hammock Beach, which will return to the Ocean Course at Hammock Beach March 24-30, 2008, has donated a total of $250,000 to area charities, including $95,000 to the Florida Hospital Memorial Foundation and the Stuart F. Meyer Hospice House. 

The area charity beneficiaries of the Ginn Championship include: The First Tee of St. John’s County; American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life; Stewart-Marchman Center; Matanzas High School Booster; Boy Scouts and Girls Scouts of Flagler County; The Friends of the A1A Scenic & Historical Coast Byways; Art League; Champions Tour Wives Association and Habit for Humanity. 

“The Ginn Championship and its volunteers, along with Ginn Resorts, is honored to contribute to the Florida Hospital Memorial Foundation and the various charities in the area,” said Bobby Ginn.  “Making contributions to the local community is a valued aspect of sponsoring a professional golf tournament.  We are extremely pleased to be able to contribute to the people of this fine area.”

Tournament Director John Subers said, “As a tournament, we have strived to reach out and make an impact on the Palm Coast and surrounding communities.  Being able to donate this money to the Florida Hospital Memorial Foundation, Stuart F. Meyer Hospice House and the additional charities associated with the tournament satisfies one of our goals, and we thank Ginn Resorts for their ongoing efforts to help make this an incredible event.”

About Ginn Resorts

Ginn Resorts is a privately-held resort development and management firm specializing exclusive

leisure lifestyle and vacation destination communities. The firm owns and operates communities

across the United States and the Caribbean. Headquartered in Celebration, Fla., the firm’s principals have more than three decades of experience in creating large-scale, master-planned resorts and recreation-oriented communities. For more information, visit www.ginnresorts.com.

About The Champions Tour

The Champions Tour is a tax-exempt membership organization of professional golfers age 50 and older.  Conceived in 1980 as the Senior PGA Tour, it started with just four events and purses totaling $475,000. The Champions Tour will feature a minimum of 29 official Charles Schwab Cup events offering $54.1 million in prize money in 2007 and its highest average purse ever of $1.86 million.  The Champions Tour’s primary purpose is to provide significant competitive and earnings opportunities for players age 50 and older; to protect the integrity of the game; and to help grow the reach of the game in the U.S. and around the world. In addition to providing competitive opportunities for its membership, Champions Tour events also generate significant sums of money for charity. The commissioner of the PGA TOUR is Tim Finchem.  Rick George is president of the Champions Tour. TOUR headquarters is in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Our web site address is PGATOUR.com.    

About Ginn Sports Entertainment, LLC
Ginn Sports Entertainment, LLC (GSE) was created in 2006 by Bobby Ginn, president and Chief Executive Officer of Ginn Resorts, and directed by GSE president and Chief Operating Officer Kent Atherton. GSE is dedicated to the organization, production and marketing of Ginn Resorts professional sports properties in golf and auto racing. Currently, GSE serves as the event organizer and title sponsor to two tournaments on the LPGA Tour (the Ginn Open at Ginn Reunion Resort near Orlando, FL and the Ginn Tribute Hosted by Annika at the RiverTowne Country Club course at Ginn Belvidere Resort on Charleston Harbor in SC) and one tournament on the Champions Tour (the Ginn Championship at Hammock Beach at Ocean Hammock Golf Club in Palm Coast, FL). Additionally, GSE hosts the Champions Tour’s ACE Group Classic at Quail West, a Ginn Resorts private community in Naples, FL and has sponsor endorsements with professional golfers Annika Sorenstam, Cristie Kerr, May Wood, Lucas Glover, Lee Janzen and Brian Gay. GSE also manages sponsorship marketing and hospitality on behalf of Ginn Racing, Bobby Ginn’s NASCAR team, which next year includes Nextel Cup drivers Mark Martin (01), Joe Nemechek (13), Sterling Marlin (14) and Regan Smith who will also drive the Ginn Busch Series car, along with Kraig Kinser, who competes in the Craftsman Truck Series and Late Model/ARCA drivers Rick Carmichael and Jesus Hernandez.  For more updates and information on Ginn Sports Entertainment, visit www.ginnsportsentertainment.com.