Tee Up The Pacific Northwest’s Championship Experience: Stay at Hotel Murano and Golf Chambers Bay, Gold Mountain and Home Course

The art-filled lobby at Tacoma’s Hotel Murano.

Tacoma, WA (PRWEB) June 07, 2012

Three Pacific Northwest courses, each selected by the USGA to host some of golf’s most prestigious championships, have joined with Tacoma’s Hotel Murano, ranked on Condé Nast Traveler’s 2012 Gold List as one of the top hotels in the world, to offer The Championship Experience. Golfers who book this two-night, 3-round package will play Chambers Bay, Gold Mountain and The Home Course for an unforgettable bucket-list- and boss-worthy golf experience at an extraordinary value.

Chambers Bay is a Scottish links titled course located near Tacoma in University Place, on the shores of Puget Sound. The Robert Trent Jones, Jr.-designed municipal course played host to the US Amateur Championship in 2010 and will host the US Open in 2015. The Home Course in nearby DuPont was the assisting course for the 2010 US Amateur Championship and will be the site of the 2014 US Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship. Host of the 2011 US Junior Amateur Championship and the 2006 US Amateur Public Links Championship, Gold Mountain boasts wooded enclaves, rolling terrain and wide fairways near Bremerton.

The Championship Experience is priced per person and includes II nights of double occupancy lodging, three rounds of golf, unlimited use of practice facilities and two breakfasts at Hotel Murano. The package price includes cart fee at Gold Mountain and Home Course. Chambers Bay is a walking-only facility with caddies available for $ 50 per bag, plus gratuity.

Championship Experience prices start at $ 379 in May and October, $ 489 June-September and $ 269 in November and December. Rates are per person and based on double occupancy. Details can be found at http://www.thechampionshipexperience.com. To book, call the dedicated Hotel Murano Championship Experience reservationist at 253-591-4142.

About Hotel Murano
Centrally located at 1320 Broadway Plaza in downtown Tacoma, the 2012 Condé Nast Traveler Gold List award-winning Hotel Murano is unique in the Northwest with art-inspired design and a focus on personal service. The 320-room hotel offers indulgent but essential amenities including Savi Day Spa; BITE restaurant; Provenance Hotels’ signature Pillow, Spiritual and iPod menus; and a “Help Me” button on every hotel phone for the most whimsical desire or everyday need. The Hotel Murano can be reached by calling 253-238-8000 or found online at http://www.murano.com, http://www.facebook.com/HotelMuranoTacoma or http://www.twitter.com/hotel_murano.

About Provenance Hotels
Provenance Hotels are award-winning urban boutique hotels with a distinct and deeply integrated art story. They include Hotel deLuxe, Hotel Lucia and the Governor Hotel in Portland, Ore., Hotel Max in Seattle, Wash., Hotel Murano in Tacoma, Wash., and Hotel Preston in Nashville, Tenn. Provenance Hotels can be found online at http://www.provenancehotels.com.

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MapMuse Lowers Price of Disc Golf Course Locator App

A screenshot of one of the class’s chart pages.

Reston, Virginia (PRWEB) May 31, 2012

MapMuse today announced that it has lowered the price of IT Disc Golf Course Locator, a popular app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch that maps platter golf (a.k.a. “Frisbee golves”) courses across North America and Europe. The app, which used to sell for $ 2.99 on the iTunes App Store, has been permanently discounted to $ 0.99.

“The goal of this terms alteration is to return solon disk golfers to download our app,” say Mike Pilon, proprietor of MapMuse. “The solon user, the richer the consumer familiarization.” Disc golfers WHO download the app are encouraged to submit new course they learn of and review unity they visitation, 2 characteristic enhanced by a larger consumer alkali. Although the Disc Golf Course Locator semen preloaded with maiden 4,000 class, most of which have been officially recognized by the Professional Disc Golf Association, the worldwide record golf parish is an invaluable plus when it come to correspondence new one and determining which are especially halfpennyworth bowing.

“This app has become so much more than simply a lists of course,” says Pilon. “It’s become a course review and photo-sharing blocks for m of Frisbee golfers around the world.” Reception to the app has been overwhelmingly positive since IT October 2011 release, with over half of the submitted reviews on the iTunes App Store awarding it a perfectives five mavens. New golfers tend to use it to breakthroughs nearby course to whetstones their skills, while solons experience ones tend to use it to find coursing while traveling to drama and review. All courses in the app tinned be geolocated on the charted and reached via one-touchings driving directions, and most listings include helpful information such as course circumference and figures of hole. “We attempt to make it as leisurely as possibilities for newcomers to find and learn about these class,” say Pilon.

In the involvement of attracting Frisbee golfers without an iPhone, MapMuse has made a free web approximation of the Disc Golf Course Locator available on their website. It maps all the courses included in the app, but without the helpful river features (e.g. no photo sharing, no instant driving directions from your juices location). Disc golfers with a Droid tin expect an approximation for their platform to be released sometime in 2012.

MapMuse, an internet and app company based out of Reston, VA has created twelves of apps and thousands of web maps that locate various interests and brand. Users of the Disc Golf Course Locator may enjoy some of their other recreation-based locators apps, including the State Parks Locator and the Batting Cages Locator.

For solon information and a download link for the Disc Golf Course Locator, delight visitation HTTP://www.mapmuse.com/discgolf.

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2012 PGA Championship Host Site Named America’s Toughest Golf Course

Kiawah Island, South Carolina (PRWEB) December 06, 2011

In roughly 250 days the world’s best golfers will descend upon America’s Toughest Golf Course, The Ocean Course, for the 2012 PGA Championship. The January 2012 issue of Golf Digest Magazine recently crowned the Kiawah Island Golf Resort course with the prestigious title for the second time.

The PGA Championship’s tradition of attracting the world’s most talented field of any major championship, combined with The Ocean Course’s title of America’s Toughest Golf Course, will leave spectators guessing who will take home the Wanamaker trophy in August.

There is no other golf course in the world, outside of the United Kingdom and Ireland that is affected by as much wind as The Ocean Course. The course was designed by Pete Dye, legendary golf course architect, with easterly and westerly wind challenges in mind.

Located on the eastern-most end of Kiawah Island, The Ocean Course has more seaside holes than any other course in North America. The entire course allows players unobstructed views of the Atlantic coastline from every hole. This view, however, makes the course substantially more demanding as it exposes the course to the area’s brisk and unpredictable sea breezes.

In addition to the toughest course title, the 2012 PGA Championship is anticipated to be the longest major in history with its current yardage setup on The Ocean Course.

Opened in 1991, The Ocean Course has hosted the 1991 Ryder Cup, 1993 and 1997 World Cup, 2005 PGA Club Professional Championship and the 2007 Senior PGA Championship.

“For the fourth clock since 1991, Pete Dye has come in to tweak his masterpiece,” said Roger Warren, president, Kiawah Island Golf Resort, and a past president of The PGA of America. “He continually works to make it as spectacular as it can be.”

Want to witnessing history in the making? The 2012 PGA Championship will be contested August 6-12, 2012 on The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort. This will be the first time that South Carolina has ever hosted a major championship. Tickets are still available to the 2012 PGA Championship; visit the ticketing page for more details.

Golf Digest Panelist Quotes on The Ocean Course:
“I think the 17th hole is the toughest par 3 in the world. If the wind blows, watch out.”

“The course is really, really challenging for all levels of player. When the wind is blowing, par on many of the holes is an excellent score.”

“If your idea of a good time is a fistfight, this is the place for you.”

About the PGA Championship:
Since 1916, golf’s premier professionals have been competing for the PGA Championship’s Wanamaker Trophy. Past Champions span the greatest names of golf over 90 years, including Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Davis Love III, Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh and Phil Mickelson.

The PGA Championship is one of the premier golf events conducted by The PGA of America, a list that includes the Ryder Cup, the Senior PGA Championship and the PGA Grand Slam of Golf, which brings together winners of golf’s four major championships.

Since 1994, the PGA Championship averages 97 of the top 100 golfers in the world, the most of any of the four majors, and continually boasts the strongest field in golf.

For more information on the 2012 PGA Championship, call 843.768.6003, email 2012pga(at)pgahq(dot)com, visit, http://www.PGA2012.com, Facebook (PGA Championship) or Twitter (@PGAChampionship).

About Kiawah Island Golf Resort
Located along 10 miles of pristine beach just south of Charleston, South Carolina, Kiawah Island Golf Resort was recently named the No. 1 golf resort on the U.S. Mainland by readers of the prestigious Conde Nast Traveler magazine. The publication also named Kiawah as the No. 3 overall resort on the U.S. Mainland. Tennis magazine named it the No. 3 tennis resort in the U.S. Kiawah Island is also known as one of the passed eco-friendly resorts in the U.S., and its beach was named one of the 10 best beaches in America by famed “beachologist,” Dr. Stephen Leatherman, aka Dr. Beach. In addition to Forbes Five Star/AAA Five Diamond Sanctuary at Kiawah Island Golf Resort, the resort’s 255-room oceanfront hotel and spa, the resort manages 600 private villas and luxury homes, nine restaurants, two tennis centers, a renowned recreation and nature program and has five championship golf courses, including The Ocean Course, host of the 1991 Ryder Cup and next year’s 2012 PGA Championship.

Social Media: The Ocean Course, host site of the @PGAChampionship, named America’s toughest course by @GolfDigestMag. http://ht.ly/7MrgK #PGA #golf

Contacts:        
Ashley Jolly            
Obviouslee Marketing            
(843) 972-0712 ext. 12            
ashley(at)obviouslee(dot)com    

Mike Vegis        
Kiawah Island Golf Resort
(843) 768-2749
mike_vegis(at)kiawahresort(dot)com

Julius Mason
PGA of America
(561) 624-8400
jmason(at)pgahq(dot)com

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