Greensboro, Ga. (September 19, 2007) - Linger Longer Communities launched its newest golf innovation with the grand opening of the Kingdom at Reynolds Plantation on September 10th. Over 100 attended the grand opening, including PGA Tour players Sergio Garcia, Justin Rose, Gary McCord and local favorite Charlie Rymer. Reynolds Plantation was pleased to have Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue and his wife in attendance. The new game-enhancement facility is a partnership between Reynolds Plantation and TaylorMade-adidas Golf Company (TMaG).
The Kingdom at Reynolds Plantation is open to the over 250 members of the TMaG Tour Staff to test and be fit for new equipment which is custom-built to each players unique specifications on site. It's also open to TMaG Staff club professionals and their guests and small corporate groups.
Custom-fitting at The Kingdom at Reynolds Plantation is performed with TaylorMade's MATT System (Motion Analysis 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. MATT distills that information to create a remarkably sophisticated computer-animated image of your swing that's viewable from every angle. MATT is also programmed to execute a multitude of calculations and measurements to develop a data-driven personal-swing profile.
Guests of the Kingdom will also have access to instruction at the Reynolds Golf Academy. The Academy is led by Charlie King, a GOLF Magazine Top 100 instructor and author of "Golf's Red Zone Challenge." The Reynolds Golf Academy includes an unparalleled short-game practice facility that affords players the opportunity to practice almost any greenside shot imaginable, and includes an 18,000 square foot putting green. The spacious practice range, which is shared by the Kingdom and the Academy, features a fairway bunker and uphill, downhill and side-hill lies.
Reynolds Plantation was chosen as the location for TaylorMade's Kingdom for a variety of reasons, including:
▪ TMaG's desire to create a club-fitting and club-testing facility that would be more easily accessible to TaylorMade-adidas Golf Tour Staff professionals and club Staff professionals living or playing east of the Mississippi River.
▪ Reynolds Plantation's well-deserved reputation as a premier golf location dedicated to excellence. Located on 14,000 acres, it's one of the country's most successful and popular residential golf communities. Likewise, TaylorMade is a premium golf equipment brand dedicated to quality, performance and innovation.
▪ Reynolds Plantation is located one hour from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the most accessible airport in the world.
▪ Accommodations for Kingdom guests include the AAA Five Diamond Award-winning Ritz-Carlton Lodge at Reynolds Plantation.
▪ Reynolds Plantation offers a collection of world-class golf courses by world-class designers including Bob Cupp, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Fazio, Rees Jones and the new members-only course by Jim Engh.
▪ The weather allows for year-round golf.
▪ Reynolds Plantation lies halfway between Atlanta and Augusta, both which have great historical significance to the game of golf.
"This fulfills our vision to open a Kingdom in the eastern United States, so that we can more easily serve many of our tour professionals, club professionals and brand loyalists," said Robin English, TMaG's director of Kingdom operations, "and we can't imagine a better, more authentic golf location for it than Reynolds Plantation."
"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 not only to enjoy our great courses, but they can also engage in an incomparable Kingdom experience that can change their games dramatically for the better."
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 14,000-acre golf and lake community with more than 80 miles of shoreline on Lake Oconee. Reynolds Plantation 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 members-only course. Reynolds Plantation is also home to The Reynolds Golf Academy--led by GOLF Magazine Top 100 Instructor Charlie King--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 Tennis Center. Golf Digest and Golf for Women chose Reynolds Plantation as the site of the 2007 Signature Home, their first-ever "ultimate home for a golfer," and Southern Living unveiled its Idea House at Reynolds Plantation in the summer of 2007. 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 Conde' 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/.
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