Yes, the countdown has begun and the engine that is the SAS Championship presented by Bloomberg Businessweek is firing on all cylinders for the tournament’s 10th anniversary.  I can’t believe Tournament Week is now less than 100 days away.

Over the next three months we will be using this blog, our periodic e-mail newsletter, www.saschampionship.com, www.facebook.com/saschampionship, www.twitter.com/saschampionship, normal press releases, and our media partners to announce unique ways we are celebrating our 10th Anniversary.  Be sure to sign up and “like” us on Facebook and follow our “tweets” on Twitter, so you not only get the latest and greatest information from us, but you also are spreading the SAS Championship’s good news.

We have a new online database partner for volunteer registration which is now live on our website (Provide a link here?).  We are launching volunteer recruitment a little later than we usual, but we wanted to make sure it was fully tested, which we did during the Rex Hospital Open.  It is a completely online database which should increase the quantity and quality of communication between Volunteer Management and the Volunteer Team.  If you have any questions or concerns regarding the new registration module, please contact Ali Mangini or Ben Adler at 531-4653.

Volunteers are the lifeblood of the SAS Championship and we are so lucky to have a great group each year led by Clint de Gabrielle and Stacey Schaeffer.  If you haven’t volunteered in the past, think about it for this year – it is a great group that has lots of fun insuring that players and patrons have an absolutely perfect experience at the SAS Championship.  Each year we need nearly 600 volunteers and the Triangle Community always delivers.

So far, this season’s Champions Tour  has felt a lot of Freddy Fever and seen some very exciting play from some legends of the game.  Fred Couples has three wins and is leading the Charles Schwab Cup standings through the Principal Charity Classic.  Tom Lehman, who edged Couples and David Frost in the season’s first major (Senior PGA Championship) over Memorial Day Weekend, is in second, followed by World Golf Hall of Famers Nick Price and Bernhard Langer.  Mark O’Meara, who got his first Champions Tour victory in April by teaming up with Price in the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf Team Event, rounds out the top five. 

We will start some of our field announcements as they come in later in the summer.  We are hopeful that we can spread Freddy Fever in the Triangle, but don’t have an official commitment from him yet – stay tuned.