BRADENTON, FLORIDA (AUGUST 9, 2023) –Former Florida State Senate President Bill Galvano has been named the Volunteer General Chair for the inaugural World Champions Cup, the event introduced at the moment. The inaugural World Champions Cup might be contested December 7-10, 2023, at The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida. The first-of-its-kind worldwide workforce golf competitors will create a brand new legacy occasion that includes lots of the sport’s most completed gamers.
Inspired by the eagerness and custom of the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, the World Champions Cup is formally sanctioned by PGA TOUR Champions and is about to air onABC and ESPN. The World Champions Cup will characteristic Team International, Team Europe and Team USA squaring off over three days of competitors that can renew among the sport’s most storied rivalries as the groups battle for worldwide delight and world bragging rights. World Golf Hall of Famer Ernie Els, 2011 Open champion Darren Clarke and 2003 U.S. Open champion Jim Furyk will every serve as taking part in captains for his or her respective groups of six opponents, all aged 50 and older and members of the PGA TOUR Champions, within the first taking part in of the World Champions Cup. Seven-time PGA TOUR winner and common golf commentator Peter Jacobsen will serve as Chairman of the inaugural occasion. Galvano represented the Bradenton and Tampa Bay areas within the Florida Senate from 2012 to 2020 and within the Florida House of Representatives from 2002 to 2010. He served as the 88th President of the Senate in his final two years in workplace. In his function with the World Champions Cup, Galvano might be accountable for all volunteer committees, with 45 people serving as Directors and Committee Chairs to supervise the varied operational capabilities of the occasion. The 2023 World Champions Cup would require the help of roughly 400 volunteers throughout varied areas together with: Access & Information, Caddie Services, Corporate Hospitality, Gallery Management, Guest Services Shuttles, Merchandise, Practice Facility, Product Distribution, Spotters, Standard Bearers, Tournament Office, Transportation, TV Support, Volunteer Services, and Walking Scorers. Information on volunteer positions might be obtainable quickly, and people serious about serving as volunteers can e mail the World Champions Cup volunteer workforce at [email protected]. “I’m honored to guide the volunteer effort for the World Champions Cup,” Galvano mentioned. “This is an thrilling new PGA TOUR Champions occasion that won’t solely deliver lots of golf’s legends to our space, however will even create a optimistic financial affect regionally and draw consideration to our space by way of worldwide tv protection throughout the most effective instances of yr on the Gulf Coast. I encourage my fellow Florida residents from Bradenton, Sarasota and the Tampa Bay area to contemplate becoming a member of the volunteer workforce, and I’m already trying ahead to the primary week in December.” Each yr, greater than 100,000 volunteers contribute numerous hours serving to orchestrate greater than 120 PGA TOUR-sanctioned occasions nationwide. “Volunteering is an excellent solution to benefit from the World Champions Cup from a singular perspective that not everybody will get to expertise,” mentioned Brittany Jeanis, the WorldChampions Cup Tournament Director. “Volunteers play a vital function within the clean operation of an occasion this measurement. Our volunteers have a direct affect on the general event expertise and likewise get to get pleasure from a front-row seat to see among the world’s greatest golfers up shut and in-person.” The World Champions Cup is an annual three-team, three-day match play competitors that might be contested throughout nine-hole matches that includes workforce codecs and singles play, with factors being earned for every gap received in every of the occasion’s 24 matches. The workforce with the very best level whole throughout all matches might be topped the champion. Each of the three groups competing within the World Champions Cup will include six gamers, together with a taking part in captain, and all might be energetic PGA TOUR Champions members. Automatic invites for every workforce might be prolonged to the highest two point-earners within the WCC’s career-based rankings, with two further positions going to Chairman’s picks. The ultimate spots for Team International, Team Europe and Team USA might be play-in positions primarily based on the year-end Charles Schwab Cup standings. The Concession Golf Club was named the Best New Private Course in America by Golf Digest in 2006. The seed of what would develop into The Concession Golf Club was planted in 1969, with Jack Nicklaus’ well-known gesture of conceding the ultimate putt within the Ryder Cup to Tony Jacklin, clinching the primary tie within the competitors’s historical past. Decades later, the 2 golf legends paired as much as design and create The Concession Golf Club — a championship, privately-owned golf facility with no homes lining the course. The course has hosted the PGA TOUR’s 2021 World Golf Championships-Workday Championship at The Concession, the 2015 Men’s and Women’s NCAA Division I championships and the biennial Concession Cup. This occasion will add to the wealthy custom {of professional} golf within the Sarasota/Bradenton space, which incorporates the PGA TOUR Champions’ American Express Invitational (1996-2000) and the Korn Ferry Tour’s LECOM Suncoast Classic, held in Lakewood Ranch every April for the final 5 years. ABC and ESPN will serve as the unique tv properties of the World Champions Cup. Coverage will air Thursday, December 7 and Friday, December 8, as nicely as Sunday, December 10 with extra particulars to be confirmed at a later date. The occasion will even characteristic a singular pro-am on Saturday, December 9. Tickets for the inaugural World Champions Cup might be obtainable quickly. Additional details about the World Champions Cup is on the market atwww.WorldChampionsCup.com, on Twitter (@WorldChampsCup) and on Instagram (@WorldChampionsCup). 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