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PGA TOUR Team Announced for 19 Playing of Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge MEDIA WENDY’S INFORMATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3-TOUR September 14, 2010 CHALLENGE Contacts: Tom Sprouse - HNS Sports Group 6189 Memorial Drive 614-889-6791 DUBLIN, OHIO 43017 (614) 764-4653 Mark Blais - Harrah’s LV Golf (614) 764-4710 (fax) 702-777-2423 PGA TOUR team announced for 19th playing of Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge Golf Channel becomes exclusive television partner Dublin, Ohio – September 14, 2010 – Tournament officials announced today that Ryder Cup team members Dustin Johnson and Bubba Watson will join fan favorite Boo Weekley to compete for the PGA TOUR in the 2010 Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge. The tournament will be played this November 9, 2010 at Rio Secco Golf Club in Henderson, Nevada. Johnson, who will be making his Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge debut, is enjoying a breakout season in 2010 and is emerging as one of the TOUR’s top players. With seven top-10 finishes, including victories at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and last week’s BMW Championship, Johnson will enter the TOUR Championship presented by Coca Cola on September 23 ranked No. 2 in FedExCup Playoff points after finishing the 2010 regular FedExCup season points race in 11th place. He is currently ranked No. 2 on the PGA TOUR money list with more than $4.3 million in earnings, both career highs, and is also ranked No. 3 in driving distance on the PGA TOUR with a 308.1 yard average. Johnson has recorded at least one victory in each of his past three seasons on the PGA TOUR and will compete in his first Ryder Cup this October in Wales. One of the brightest young stars on the PGA TOUR, Watson will be making his third Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge appearance and second in a row as a member of the PGA TOUR team. He is enjoying a career year in 2010 with four top-10 finishes so far this season, including his first career PGA TOUR victory at the Travelers Championship. He has earned a career high $3,051,998 so far in 2010, placing him 12th on the PGA TOUR money list. He finished the 2010 regular FedExCup season points race in 8th place and currently stands 18th in the FedExCup Playoffs heading into his second appearance (2008) at the TOUR Championship presented by Coca Cola. Watson is currently ranked No.2 in driving distance on the PGA TOUR with a 309.3 yard average and will be competing for Team USA in his first Ryder Cup this October. (more) PGA TOUR Team Announced Page 2 September 14, 2010 First-time Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge participant and fan favorite Weekley has two career PGA TOUR victories to his credit, and so far in 2010 has recorded three top-10 finishes. Weekley was one of six rookies and an emotional leader on the winning 2008 U.S. Ryder Cup Team played at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. He earned 2.5 points in three matches for the team, including a 4- and-2 win over Oliver Wilson in Sunday Singles. Weekley garnered worldwide attention for riding his driver "cowboy horse" style down the first fairway during the Ryder Cup, leading eventually to an appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." Weekley also dropped the green flag at the 2008 fall NASCAR race in Talladega, Alabama. In related news, beginning in 2010 Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge will partner with Golf Channel as the events exclusive television partner. The new three-year relationship through 2012 will provide a fully integrated Golf Channel platform including the Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge telecast, The Golf Fix with Michael Breed (Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge Edition), as well as Golf Central Segments and positioning on www.GolfChannel.com. The Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge telecast is scheduled to air the week of December 6, 2010. "The Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge is excited to partner with Golf Channel,” said Wendy’s Vice President of Communications, Denny Lynch. “Golf Channel will not only air the event’s telecast but also help create a broader platform, through their various on-air and online components, to build awareness and communicate the mission of our primary beneficiary, the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.” Now celebrating its 19th anniversary, the Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge is the only professional golf tournament that pits three players from the PGA, LPGA and Champions Tours against each other in a head-to-head competition for tour bragging rights and a share of the $1 million purse. Through the 2009 event, the PGA TOUR holds a slight edge in those bragging rights with seven wins (1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006) to the Champions Tour’s six (1993, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2008) and the LPGA’s five (1992, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2009). In the event’s 18-year history, more than $30 million has been raised for its primary beneficiary, the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s® Old Fashioned Hamburgers, created the Foundation in 1992 in support of the vision that every child deserves a permanent home and a loving family. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption focuses on increasing foster care adoption awareness while supporting model adoption service programs. There are 114,550 U.S. children in foster care, waiting to be adopted. They have been removed from their homes as victims of child abuse, neglect or abandonment and are left without a family. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption works on behalf of these children, because they believe every child deserves a permanent home and loving family. To learn more about the Foundations work please visit www.davethomasfoundation.org. (more) PGA TOUR Team Announced Page 3 September 14, 2010 The venue for the 2010 Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge is the Rees Jones designed Rio Secco Golf Club in Henderson, Nevada. Gracefully draped across 240 acres in the foothills of the Black Mountain Range and located 15 miles from the Las Vegas Strip, Rio Secco Golf Club is renowned for its world-class golf experience and acclaimed Butch Harmon School of Golf. The 7,318-yard, par 72 course was named in USA Today newspaper among the “Top Ten Golf Destinations in the World.” Offering instruction for newcomers and professionals alike, The Butch Harmon School of Golf is famed for working with such talents as Tiger Woods, Greg Norman, Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson, Stewart Cink and Natalie Gulbis. Located in Henderson, Nevada, Rio Secco is a Harrah’s Entertainment golf destination. Other Harrah’s Entertainment golf courses are: Grand Bear, in Biloxi, Mississippi; The Links at Cottonwoods, in Tunica, Mississippi; the historic Atlantic City Country Club, in Atlantic City, New Jersey; Chariot Run, in Laconia, Indiana; Cascata, in Boulder City, Nevada; and Caesars Golf Macau. More information about Rio Secco Golf Club is available online at www.riosecco.net ; Ph (702) 777- 2400. General admission to the Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge is FREE. For information regarding golf and social event packages please visit www.wendys3tour.com. The Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge is the only professional golf tournament that pits three players from the PGA, LPGA and Champions Tours against each other in a head-to-head competition for tour bragging rights. Featuring a purse of $1 million, the tournament is a made for television event benefiting the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Since the tournament’s inception in 1992, more than $30 million has been raised to promote foster care adoption. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a nonprofit 501(c)3 public charity dedicated to dramatically increasing the adoptions of the more than 150,000 children in North America’s foster care systems waiting to be adopted. For more information visit www.wendys3tour.com. # # # .
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