Pro Women's Victory Golf Tour
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The Pro Women's Victory Golf Tour (VGT) is a planned women's professional golf tour that plans to offer the second largest per tournament purses in women's professional golf in the United States. During its first season in 2008, the Victory Golf Tour plans to hold events in eight cities beginning in Orlando, Florida's Mystic Dunes Golf Club, with purses of $100,000 per tournament. During its second season in 2009, the Tour plans to visit twelve cities and offer purses of $125,000 per tournament. And each season from 2010 onward it plans to stage a nationwide schedule of eighteen tournaments with players competing for purses of $150,000 per tournament and increasing every year thereafter.
The Global Victory Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization, founded in conjunction with VGT and dedicated to improving health and wellness of girls and young women through golf.[1]
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[edit] Co-Founders
Andrea Sims, Cindy Wulf, and Brian J. Kane founded the Tour in 2005.[2] Sims, who serves as President, was named one of the "World Hottest Party Planners of 2006"by Forbes magazine. She is a public relations and event productions professional with a career-long track record for producing high-profile, sold-out events, including A-list celebrity galas, award shows and tournaments.
Wulf, who serves as President of Tournament Operations, has been a professional golfer for the past eleven years and has competed in over 200 professional golf tournaments. She has also been involved in creating many instructional golf programs, including one in conjunction with the PGA initiative Play Golf America. Her program was named most successful by the PGA in 2003. Wulf has also organized successful golf tournaments for the past eleven years.
Kane serves as the Chief Financial Officer of the Tour, and is President of B.J. Kane & Company, P.C., a northern Virginia certified public accounting and financial consulting firm that he founded in 1985. B.J. Kane & Company offers tax, accounting and financial management advisory services to health care practices, other businesses and individuals. In addition, Kane is the President of Health Care Advisors, Inc., a medical practice management and consulting company that he founded in 1996.
[edit] Honorary Celebrity Committee
The following people sit on VGT's Honorary Celebrity Committee:
- Larry King
- Lee Elder
- Kathy Whitworth
- Shirley Jones[3]
- B.B. King
- Tom Arnold
- Suzanne Pleshette
- Tim Conway
- Angie Dickinson
[edit] Tournament Sites 2008-2010
[edit] Tournament Sites for 2008
1. Asheville, North Carolina
2. Atlanta, Georgia
3. Birmingham, Alabama
4. Jacksonville, Florida
5. Nashville, Tennessee
6. Orlando, Florida
7. Snow Hill, Maryland
8. Washington, D.C./Baltimore
[edit] Tournament Sites for 2009
1. Asheville, North Carolina
2. Atlanta, Georgia
3. Birmingham, Alabama
4. Boston, Massachusetts
5. Jacksonville, Florida
6. Nashville, Tennessee
7. New Orleans, Louisiana
8. Orlando, Florida
9. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
10. San Antonio, Texas
11. Snow Hill, Maryland
12. Washington, D.C./Baltimore
[edit] Tournament Sites for 2010
1. Albuquerque, New Mexico
2. Asheville, North Carolina
3. Atlanta, Georgia
4. Birmingham, Alabama
5. Boston, Massachusetts
6. Jacksonville, Florida
7. Las Vegas, Nevada
8. Nashville, Tennessee
9. New Orleans, Louisiana
10. Norfolk, Virginia
11. Orlando, Florida
12. Palm Springs, California
13. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
14. Salt Lake City, Utah
15. San Antonio, Texas
16. Scottsdale, Arizona
17. Snow Hill, Maryland
18. Washington, D.C./Baltimore
[edit] The Global Victory Foundation
The Global Victory Foundation is building an international network of world class experts, sponsors, business partners, professional golfers, schools and communities to help improve health and wellness of girls and young women through golf. It provides information, action and real world examples regarding how athletics at an early age, coupled with an overall healthy lifestyle, directly impacts health and well-being.
The Foundation is educating girls and young women (under 18 years of age) on the importance and benefits of prevention, such as physical exercise, healthy diet, routine physician’s visits and diagnostic screenings, and the need to protect and preserve a healthy environment. The Foundation is further promoting participation in the game of golf and other sports as a critical component of a healthier lifestyle.
