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Allianz Championship

Allianz Founded in 1896 and based in Minneapolis, Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America provides fixed and variable annuities, life insurance products, and long term care insurance products.

Known for innovation and commitment to its customers and community, the company has become a leader in the North American life insurance industry. Allianz products are offered through a network of over 220,000 independent financial professionals. Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America is one of the primary companies of Allianz SE, the 15th largest corporation in the world based on revenue (Forbes, March 2007) and one of the world’s largest providers of financial services. Allianz SE employs over 177,000 people who serve more than 70 million customers worldwide.


TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR
ALLIANZ CHAMPIONSHIP

At The Old Course at Broken Sound
February 4-10, 2008

BOCA RATON, FL --Tickets are now on sale for the Allianz Championship tournament, set to tee off February 4th-10th, 2008 at The Old Course at Broken Sound, located at 1401 NW 51st Street, (Yamato Road) on Old Course Way in Boca Raton, FL. Bringing the legendary champions of golf to Boca Raton for a celebrated week-long PGA Champions Tour tournament, the Allianz Championship will host a variety of events that will be driving all net proceeds to Boca Raton Community Hospital. The Allianz Championship Tournament players will include a long roster of golf legends such as Gary Player, Nick Price, Tom Kite, Lee Trevino, Jay Haas, Bernhard Langer, Dana Quigley, Loren Roberts, Fuzzy Zoeller, Andy Bean, Chip Beck, John Harris, Hale Irwin and Tom Purtzer.

The Allianz Championship increases the Champions Tour’s early-season Florida swing to three tournaments with the Golf Channel televising live all three rounds of the championship from The Old Course at Broken Sound Club. The purse will be $1.65 million in 2008, escalating $50,000 the following year. Events include a Junior Pro-Am & Pro Skills Challenge on Tuesday, Feb. 5th, and the Championship Pro-Am on Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 6th and 7th, followed by the televised 54-hole competition Friday through Sunday, Feb. 8th-10th.

The tournament--which is sponsored by Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, JM Lexus; Charles Schwab; 3M; Administaff Small Business; Woolbright Development, Inc.; City of Boca Raton; Boca Aviation; Republic National Distributing; Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce; 200 East; Penn-Florida Companies; Lynn University; Rosenberg Diamonds & Co.; Palm Beach Post; Toshiba Business Solutions; Boca Raton Magazine; LXR Luxury Resorts; Boca Raton Resort & Club; HP; Clear Channel Outdoor; Clear Channel Radio; Boca News; Kaye Communications, Inc.; Palm Beach County Sports Commission; PTC; ESPN AM 760 and Bonds.com.--is being managed by Pro Links Sports, headquartered in Minneapolis, MN. Directing six tournaments on the Champions Tour schedule, all are continuously voted in the top ten tournaments by the players.


Tickets Are Now On Sale For Allianz Championship/2/2/2/2

• Monday, February 4th - Professional Practice Rounds

• Tuesday, February 5th – Boca Raton Community Hospital Junior Day

The second day of the week-long PGA Champions Tour’s Allianz Championship will feature its Junior Pro-Am that teams up local male and female high school golfers with PGA Champions Tour professionals for a wide variety of opportunities/experiences.

12 Noon -- Boca Raton Community Hospital Junior Pro-Am-Local high school golfers and Champions Tour professionals
2:30 p.m. -- Boca Raton Community Hospital Pro Skills Challenge on the 18th green-Pros and participants boast their golf skills in attempting difficult shots around the green.

• Wednesday, February 6th - ALLIANZ CHAMPIONSHIP PRO AM

The third day of the Allianz Championship, a PGA Champions Tour event, will feature two Pro Am events, pairing up four amateurs with one professional golfer.

7:15 a.m. - Championship Pro-Am Morning Shotgun Start
12:45 p.m. - Championship Pro-Am Afternoon Shotgun Start

• Thursday, February 7th - ALLIANZ CHAMPIONSHIP PRO AM

The fourth day of the Allianz Championship, a PGA Champions Tour event, will feature two Pro Am events, pairing up four amateurs with one professional golfer.

7:15 a.m. Championship Pro-Am Morning Shotgun Start
12:45 p.m. Championship Pro-Am Afternoon Shotgun Start

• Friday, February 8th - ALLIANZ CHAMPIONSHIP

The beginning of the championship rounds will take place for the inaugural Allianz Championship.

*9:00a.m. - First Round of Championship Play

• Saturday, February 9th - ALLIANZ CHAMPIONSHIP

The second round of championship play will take place for the Allianz Championship.

*9:00a.m. - Second Round of Championship Play
• Sunday, February 10th - ALLIANZ CHAMPIONSHIP
*9:00a.m. - Final Round of Championship Play
*times subject to change


Tickets Are Now On Sale For Allianz Championship/3/3/3/3

Tickets are priced as follows:
• Good Any Day Passes
o Mon-Thursday: $15
o Good Any Day, Mon-Sunday: $30
o Weekly Grounds: $75

• Remy Cointreau VIP Suite Ticket: (one day): $150 (includes open-air VIP tent access with on-course viewing and a complimentary food and beverage service including wine, beer, a full bar and non-alcoholic beverages).

• Remy Cointreau VIP Suite Ticket: (weekend) $400 (includes open-air VIP tent access with on-course viewing and a complimentary food and beverage service including wine, beer, a full bar and non-alcoholic drinks).

• Executive Skybox: Week Long Pass: $1,000 (includes open-air skybox viewing on the 18th green complete with complimentary food and beverage service wine, beer, a full bar and non-alcoholic drinks).

• Ages 15 and under-free with purchased adult ticket

*PLEASE NOTE: There is a $3 shipping fee.

To purchase individual tickets or group/sky box corporate sponsorships, call the tournament office at 561-241-GOLF, or for more information on the championship events, visit www.allianzchampionship.com.

About Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America. Founded in 1896 and based in Minneapolis, Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America provides fixed and variable annuities, life insurance products, and long term care insurance products. Known for innovation and commitment to its customers and community, the company has become a leader in the North American life insurance industry. Allianz products are offered through a network of over 220,000 independent financial professionals. Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America is one of the primary companies of Allianz SE, the 15th largest corporation in the world based on revenue (Forbes, March 2007) and one of the world’s largest providers of financial services. Allianz SE employs over 177,000 people who serve more than 70 million customers worldwide.

About Broken Sound Club

Broken Sound is considered one of the premier golf course communities in Palm Beach County, FL. It features resort-style, country club living in 27 private villages and has 23 tennis courts, a state-of-the-art fitness/spa center, aquatic area, dining facilities and two of the finest golf courses in south Florida. The original Broken Sound Club, now affectionately known as the “Old Course”, was founded in 1978 and designed by Joe Lee. It will host the Allianz Championship. Gene Bates completed a redesign of the Old Course in January 2004. The Old Course features an abundance of trees unique to south Florida and rolling fairways that give it a feel similar to courses in the Pinehurst, NC area. It includes the largest stand of natural Florida maples trees in the county. The Club Course, another Lee design, was opened in 1985 and also recently renovated by Bates. Broken Sound is located on the north side of Yamato Road on Old Course Way between Congress Avenue and Military Trail.


Tickets Are Now On Sale For Allianz Championship/4/4/4/4

About Boca Raton Community Hospital

Serving the community since 1967, Boca Raton Community Hospital (www.brch.com) has 400 beds and more than 700 primary and specialty physicians with privileges. Areas of expertise include cancer, cardiovascular disease and surgery, minimally invasive surgery and women’s health.The Christine E. Lynn Heart Institute opened in September 2006, eliminating the need for patients to travel potentially life-threatening distances to receive comprehensive emergency cardiac care. This was the first time in 22 years that a new open-heart program opened in Palm Beach County. The Eugene M. and Christine E. Lynn Cancer Institute’s Harvey and Phyllis Sandler Pavilion will open in 2008. Upon its completion, the facility will house oncology, imaging, radiation, chemotherapy, support services and clinical research.

Plans are currently underway to build the Charles E. Schmidt Medical Center, the first new academic medical center to open in the United States in nearly thirty years. The hospital’s design combines best practices in technology, architecture, education and patient care to pioneer a new era in hospital safety and become the safest hospital in America.The Charles E. Schmidt Medical Center will be the cornerstone of the new academic medical center and the primary teaching hospital of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine at FAU and the Lynn College of Nursing at FAU.

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AT UPCOMING ALLIANZ CHAMPIONSHIP
“THE GREENS” TO PROVE GREENER FOR CHARITY

COMMUNITY WELLBEING, BUSINESSES, AND GOLF FANS
FEBRUARY 4-10, 2008

Countdown is underway for an exciting Allianz Championship PGA Champions Tour event, February 4-10, 2008 that will not only bring the legends of golf to Boca Raton for a week, but also drive all net proceeds to Boca Raton Community Hospital and take the lead as the first Florida PGA tournament to officially “Go Green”.The Allianz Championship with a purse of $1.65 million kicks off the Champions Tour’s Florida swing of three tournaments. More than 60,000 are expected to attend, 1,000 volunteers will assist, and the Golf Channel will broadcast live internationally all three championship rounds from The Old Course at Broken Sound that will feature a legendary roster of PGA Champions, including Gary Player, Nick Price, Tom Kite, Lee Trevino, Jay Haas, Bernhard Langer, Dana Quigley, Loren Roberts, Fuzzy Zoeller, Andy Bean, Chip Beck, John Harris, Hale Irwin, and Tom Purtzer.

In addition to Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, the tournament’s title sponsor, more than 30 prominent South Florida-based national and regional company sponsors are supporting the tournament, with most providing a variety of signature on-the-greens activities and interactive programming.

While on course, golf enthusiasts will have the chance to “chip” in by recycling their plastic, paper, aluminum, etc. during the week-long event. With the help of Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County, other tournament sponsors and many local companies, Allianz Championship will be elevating awareness for a more Eco-friendly way of life with more than 100 recycling bins and 60 signs featuring “Going Green” tips” set throughout the course.

JM Lexus, with Lexus featured as the “official car” of the Allianz Championship for the second year, is providing more than 90 cars for the tournament pros during their visit (including a large quantity of hybrids), in addition to displaying its latest models throughout the links.

Rosenberg Diamonds & Co. will be replicating its downtown Boca Raton-based luxury diamond salon (complete with a dazzling Swarovski Crystal chandelier, a grand piano, and mahogany display cases featuring a selection of large, important whites and rare, natural fancy colored diamonds…and of course plenty of security) set regally on the 12th tee. Specializing in the rarest and most desired diamonds in the world, Rosenberg will also be presenting its donation of a quarter million dollar slightly over 8 carat canary yellow diamond to the first Allianz Championship player to sink a hole-in-one on the seventh hole; the prize diamond will be on display throughout the tournament at the 12th tee salon.

“THE GREENS” TO PROVE GREENER 2/2/2/2

Woolbright Development is teaming up with Boca Raton Community Hospital to present an on-site Woolbright Wellness Center. Sponsored by Woolbright Development, Inc., which is returning as a second year tournament sponsor with more than a 100% increase in participation level, this exciting partnership between the hospital and Woolbright Development will support the hospital’s community outreach mission of providing quality healthcare to the community it serves. Inside the Woolbright Wellness Center, medical, nursing and healthcare personnel will provide health screenings for blood pressure and BMI. In addition, the Wellness Center will feature health information on a wide variety of topics ranging from breast and skin cancer awareness to nutrition information, and exercise demonstrations.

The week-long 2008 Allianz Championship schedule, includes a Boca Raton Community Hospital Junior Pro-Am & Pro Skills Challenge on Tuesday, Feb. 5th, Championship Pro-Ams on Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 6th and 7th, and the Golf Channel televised 54-hole competition Friday through Sunday, Feb. 8th-10th. All tournament play will be held at The Old Course at Broken Sound 1401 NW 51st Street, (Yamato Road) in Boca Raton, FL, on the north side of Yamato Road on Old Course Way, between Congress Avenue and Military Trail.

2008 sponsors include Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, JM Lexus; Charles Schwab; 3M; Administaff Small Business; Woolbright Development, Inc.; City of Boca Raton; Boca Aviation; Republic National Distributing; Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce; 200 East; Penn-Florida Companies; Flagler Development; Lynn University; Rosenberg Diamonds & Co.; Palm Beach Post; Toshiba Business Solutions; Boca Raton Magazine; LXR Luxury Resorts; Boca Raton Resort & Club; HP; Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County; Clear Channel Radio; Boca News; Kaye Communications, Inc.; Palm Beach County Sports Commission; PTC; ESPN AM 760 and Bonds.com.

The 2007-2008 Boca Raton Champions Golf Charities (BRCGC) board serves as the operational and financial oversight group for the annual Boca Raton event as well as the oversight group for the distribution of all charitable funds. BRCGC board members include Tournament Board Chairman and City of Boca Raton Councilman Mike “MJ” Arts, Christine Lynn, Dick Schmidt, Boca Raton Deputy Mayor Susan Whelchel, Don Allison, Gary Strack, Franklin Loh, Hollis Cavner, John Crean, Keith O’Donnell, Harvey Sandler, Jan Savarick and Ann Kagel. New BRCGC board members include Jim Dunn, Mark Gensheimer, Brent Colston, Larry Bernick, Troy McLellan, Stephen Ast, Don Schaevitz, Gary Bhojwani, Juli Wall, and Dr. Robert Colton.

For more information on sponsorship and volunteer opportunities, and to purchase tickets (ranging from $15 for One Day Passes to $1,000 for Executive Skybox Seating), contact the tournament office at 561-241-GOLF (4653); fax 561-241-4658, or visit www.allianzchampionship.com.

About Allianz Championship

In addition to bringing the legendary champions of golf to Boca Raton for a celebrated week-long PGA Champions Tour event, the Allianz Championship will be driving all net proceeds to Boca Raton Community Hospital. The Old Course at Broken Sound in Boca Raton, Florida will play host to the event February 4-10, 2008. The Allianz Championship with a purse of $1.65 million increases the Champions Tour’s early-season Florida swing to three tournaments with the Golf Channel televising live all three rounds of the championship from The Old Course at Broken Sound Club.

“THE GREENS” TO PROVE GREENER 3/3/3/3

About Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America

Founded in 1896 and based in Minneapolis, Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America provides fixed and variable annuities, life insurance products, and long term care insurance products. Known for innovation and commitment to its customers and community, the company has become a leader in the North American life insurance industry. Allianz products are offered through a network of over 220,000 independent financial professionals. Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America is one of the primary companies of Allianz SE, the 15th largest corporation in the world based on revenue (Forbes, March 2007) and one of the world’s largest providers of financial services. Allianz SE employs over 177,000 people who serve more than 70 million customers worldwide.

About Broken Sound Club

Broken Sound is considered one of the premier golf course communities in Palm Beach County, FL. Broken Sound Club features resort-style, country club living in 27 private villages. Several amenities include: 23 tennis courts, a state-of-the-art fitness/spa center, aquatic area, dining facilities and two of the finest golf courses in south Florida. The original Broken Sound Club, now affectionately known as the “Old Course”, was founded in 1978 and designed by Joe Lee and will play host to the Allianz Championship. Gene Bates completed a redesign of the Old Course in January 2004. The Old Course features an abundance of trees unique to south Florida and rolling fairways that give it a feel similar to courses in the Pinehurst, NC area. It includes the largest stand of natural Florida maples trees in the county. The Club Course, another Lee design, was opened in 1985 and also recently renovated by Bates. Broken Sound is located on the north side of Yamato Road at St. Andrews Blvd.

About Boca Raton Community Hospital

Serving the community since 1967, Boca Raton Community Hospital (www.brch.com) has 400 beds and more than 700 primary and specialty physicians with privileges. Areas of expertise include cancer, cardiovascular disease and surgery, minimally invasive surgery and women’s health. The Christine E. Lynn Heart Institute opened in September 2006, eliminating the need for patients to travel potentially life-threatening distances to receive comprehensive emergency cardiac care. This was the first time in 22 years that a new open-heart program opened in Palm Beach County. The Eugene M. and Christine E. Lynn Cancer Institute’s Harvey and Phyllis Sandler Pavilion will open in 2008. Upon its completion, the facility will house oncology, imaging, radiation, chemotherapy, support services and clinical research.

Plans are currently underway to build the Charles E. Schmidt Medical Center, the first new academic medical center to open in the United States in nearly thirty years. The hospital’s design combines best practices in technology, architecture, education and patient care to pioneer a new era in hospital safety and become the safest hospital in America. The Charles E. Schmidt Medical Center will be the cornerstone of the new academic medical center and the primary teaching hospital of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine at FAU and the Lynn College of Nursing at FAU.

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contact:
address: 6450 E. Rogers Circle
address:
city: Boca Raton state: FL zip: 33487
phone: 561.241.4653url: AllianzChampionship.com

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