Major League Baseball Legends Will Compete Alongside Champions Tour Pros At 26TH Annual Bank of America Championship
March 27, 2006:
CONCORD, Mass - Several major league
baseball legends will take to the course alongside PGA TOUR Champions
Tour pros in the twenty-sixth annual Bank of America Championship at
Nashawtuc Country Club in Concord, June 5-11. The competition will be
called Swing with the Legends.
The Bank of America Championship is the only place in New England where
golf fans can enjoy the competitive spirit and fan friendly environment
of Champions Tour golf and, this year, also can get the chance to see
some of the top names in baseball's history tee it up with Champions
Tour players and even meet and get their autographs.
Swing with the Legends, a tournament within a tournament, is a new
partnership between the Bank of America Championship and the Major
League Baseball Players Alumni Association to showcase 12 of baseball's
greatest legends in a Champions Tour professional golf tournament.
On Friday, June 9, of tournament week, each of the 12 baseball legends
will join four amateurs for a pro-am at The International golf club in
Bolton, only 15 minutes from the Bank of America Championship's home at
Nashawtuc Country Club, where the first championship round will have
begun. The International is the home of The Pines course, the "world's
longest golf course," according to the Guinness Book of World Records,
and The Oaks course, one of Golf Digest's Top 10 Best New Private
Courses in America.
Following the Friday pro-am, the baseball legends will return to
Nashawtuc for a meet-and-greet autograph session with fans, which will
take place in the Fan Pavilion by the seventeenth green.
On Saturday, June 10, the 12 baseball legends will compete alongside
Champions Tour pros at Nashawtuc during the Bank of America
Championship's second championship round. Each will take his place with
two Champions Tour pros in the last 12 groups to tee off that day. The
top six baseball legends at the end of play Saturday will move to the
final championship round on Sunday, June 11.
On Sunday, the six baseball legends will play as two threesomes randomly
placed among the Champions Tour threesomes teeing off that day. The
winning baseball legend will be honored during ceremonies on the
eighteenth green at the end of play alongside the 2006 Bank of America
Championship winner.
The Swing with the Legends tournament within a tournament will be
featured internationally on television on The Golf Channel, and
approximately the last two hours of play during each championship round
of the Bank of America championship will be carried live on The Golf
Channel.
The Bank of America Championship consistently draws some of the best
players on the Champions Tour, according to tournament director Tracy
West. Early player commitments to this year's tournament include
defending champion Mark McNulty, 2005 Champions Tour Player of the Year
Dana Quigley and 2003 Bank of America Championship winner Allen Doyle.
Other top players expected to compete include Tom Kite, Gary McCord,
Larry Nelson, Tom Purtzer, Curtis Strange, Craig Stadler and Lee
Trevino.
The tournament also has a long history of generosity toward local
charitable organizations. Since 1984, the Bank of America Championship
has donated more than $4 million to more than 40 charitable
organizations in eastern Massachusetts, with a focus on those in the
Assabet Valley region or that benefit the area. These have included
Emerson Hospital, the Boys & Girls Club of Assabet Valley, the
Concord-Carlisle and Lincoln-Sudbury booster clubs, The Genesis Fund and
The Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care.
Golf fans can fill out a volunteer application, get up-to-date
information about the twenty-sixth annual Bank of America
Championship and buy tickets online by visiting
www.bankofamericachampionship.com. Tickets also are available by
calling toll-free 1-877-559-GOLF.
