Posted by Traci Buch on Wed, Jan 09, 2008 @ 02:44 PM
Greensboro, Ga. (January 9, 2008) - The Kingdom at Reynolds Plantation was created for tour pros, but is not their private realm.
Located on Lake Oconee at one of the world's renowned golf resort communities, the Kingdom is home to "The TaylorMade Tour Experience at Reynolds Plantation," an exclusive, two-day ultimate golf experience that allows regular golfers inside the private world of the touring professional.
A comprehensive game-enhancement experience unlike any in the world, the "Tour Experience" includes a round of golf, personalized instruction and candid interaction with a tour professional from the elite staff of TaylorMade-adidas. Exclusive to the Kingdom at Reynolds Plantation, the "Tour Experience" is an extension of the services provided to tour pros who regularly visit the compound for personal testing sessions and equipment fittings, as well as to use the tour-quality setting to hone their game.
The Tour Experience package price (three nights, two days) is $9000 per person, plus taxes and gratuities. Each Tour Experience is limited to six participants and the tour professional and will be offered on 16 separate dates in 2008. Among TaylorMade's tour professional staff who plan to be on-site at Reynolds Plantation this year are the likes of Joe Ogilvie, Kenny Perry, Scott Verplank and Hale Irwin.
"The opening of The Kingdom at Reynolds Plantation further validates us as a premier golf destination," said Bob Mauragas, Reynolds Plantation's vice president of golf operations. "Now golfers can visit and not only enjoy our great collection of golf courses, but at the Kingdom they can engage in an incomparable tour experience that can change their games dramatically for the better."
The "Tour Experience" begins with a high-tech fitting for a complete set of TaylorMade clubs custom-made for each participant. Custom-fitting at the Kingdom at Reynolds Plantation is performed with the MATT System (Motion Analysis Technology by TaylorMade), a sophisticated club-fitting tool that combines nine high-speed cameras and a computer to gather vital swing information and statistics through the use of a launch monitor, multiple high-speed video cameras and a computer. That evening participants will enjoy dinner with the TaylorMade tour professional.
The next morning participants enjoy a chef-prepared breakfast and receive instruction at the Reynolds Golf Academy, led by Charlie King, a GOLF Magazine Top 100 instructor. Its resources include an unparalleled short-game practice facility that affords players to practice almost every greenside shot imaginable and an 18,000 square foot putting green. Likewise the spacious driving range, which is shared by the Kingdom and the Academy, features a fairway bunker and uphill, downhill and sidehill lies. In the afternoon, participants play a round of golf with clubs that have been built on-site overnight, accompanied by King and another PGA professional.
Unveiled last fall, the Kingdom at Reynolds Plantation is the next generation of TaylorMade's first state-of-the-art club-testing and club-fitting facility, built in 1997 at its headquarters in Carlsbad, Calif. Also named "The Kingdom," it was an innovative concept made available only to tour professionals for the purpose of testing prototype TaylorMade equipment.
The Kingdom at Reynolds Plantation occupies a beautifully renovated building located at the rear of the Oconee Course's main practice range, adjacent to an exceptional short-game practice facility that includes a full-scale par-3 target course. The architecture features high ceilings, beautifully tiled floors and dark wood appointments, but with Southern styling that's consistent with the region and luxury lake-side properties nearby.
"There's just no better way to get this type of golf experience, other than actually being a touring professional," Mauragas said. "We're excited to be the only place in the world that offers the complete combination of quality instruction and interaction with an elite TaylorMade tour professional, all in an unbelievable location."
The Kingdom also is available to TaylorMade-adidas Golf staff club professionals and their guests, and select corporate groups.
Reynolds Plantation was chosen by TaylorMade-adidas Golf (TMaG) as a "Kingdom" location for a variety of reasons, including:
- To be more easily accessible to TMaG tour staff professionals and club staff professionals living east of the Mississippi River.
- Reynolds Plantation's well-deserved reputation as a premier golf location and residential community dedicated to excellence and its access to a major international airport in Atlanta.
- World-Class accommodations, which guests at the Kingdom will find at the AAA Five-Diamond Award-winning Ritz-Carlton Lodge at Reynolds Plantation.
- Year-round golf at Reynolds Plantation's ultimate collection of championship-caliber golf courses: the Oconee (designed by Rees Jones), National (Tom Fazio) and Great Waters (Jack Nicklaus), as well as Plantation and Reynolds Landing (both by Bob Cupp).
"We can't imagine a better, more authentic golf location for it than Reynolds Plantation," said Robin English, TMaG's director of Kingdom operations.
About Reynolds Plantation
Reynolds Plantation is a Linger Longer Community providing an award-winning lifestyle with world-class amenities. Named the "Best of the Best" Golf Community by Robb Report and the community with the "Best Golf" by GOLF MAGAZINE Living, Reynolds Plantation, located between Atlanta and Augusta, is a golf and lake community with more than 80 miles of shoreline on Lake Oconee. The community features 99 holes of championship golf from designers Bob Cupp, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Fazio, Rees Jones and Jim Engh, who designed the community's first member-only course. Reynolds Plantation is also home to The Reynolds Golf Academy, as well as the TaylorMade Performance Lab and the Kingdom at Reynolds Plantation. The community offers members a variety of dining options, swimming pools, pedestrian trails, three full-service marinas and The Lake Club Wellness Campus and award-winning Tennis Center. Site of the first-ever GOLF MAGAZINE Dream House and the first-ever Golf Digest Signature Home, another "ultimate golf home" is set to debut in 2008 - the first-ever Travel + Leisure Golf Cottage, located at the Creek Club golf course. Reynolds Plantation is also home to the AAA Five Diamond Award-winning Ritz-Carlton Lodge, a 251-room lakefront resort and spa ranked No. 5 in the "Top 100 Golf Resorts" worldwide by Condé Nast Traveler Magazine. Linger Longer Communities is also the developer of Reynolds Landing and Achasta. For more information, call 800-800-5250 or visit http://www.reynoldsplantation.com/.
About TaylorMade Golf Company, Inc.
Taylor Made Golf Company has led the golf industry's technological revolution since the company was founded in 1979. TaylorMade metalwoods, irons and putters have been used to win hundreds of professional golf tournaments around the world. In 1998, TaylorMade became a wholly owned subsidiary of the adidas Group. adidas Golf footwear and apparel is the choice of hundreds of professional golfers around the world. Learn more about TaylorMade-adidas Golf and its brands at (800) 888-CLUB or http://taylormadegolf.com/, http://adidasgolf.com/, http://maxfli.com/ and http://www.tmag.com/.
About the adidas Group
The adidas Group is one of the global leaders within the sporting goods industry, offering a broad range of products around three core segments adidas, Reebok and TaylorMade-adidas Golf. Headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany, the Group has more than 26,000 employees and sales of over €10 billion.
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