World Golf Tour Adds Celtic Manor Course to Free Online Game
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Celtic Manor’s Twenty Ten Course has been added to the roster of championship golf courses on World Golf Tour. The company has also launched a virtual Celtic Manor tournament at www.wgt.com/celticmanor with a grand prize golf trip to Celtic Manor in South Wales, UK. Working closely with Celtic Manor, World Golf Tour has recreated The Twenty Ten course online in virtual reality using stunning HD photography and technology, enabling anyone to experience the new course built specifically to host this year’s Ryder Cup.
World Golf Tour has launched two free online games on The Twenty Ten course. The Celtic Manor Challenge is a free online tournament running through October 15th that features a nine-hole closest-to-the-hole competition highlighting the most interesting shots on The Twenty Ten course. The Grand Prize winner, selected at random, will receive a trip for two people to Celtic Manor in South Wales, UK, including airfare, four-nights lodging, and three rounds of golf on The Twenty Ten, The Montgomerie and Roman Road courses. The Celtic Manor Challenge is free to enter with unlimited play and registration at www.wgt.com/celticmanor.
The second offering is the Drive The 15th Experience. The reachable par four 15th hole on The Twenty Ten course is one of the most discussed holes at this year’s Ryder Cup. With matches on the line, many pros from Team USA and Team Europe are likely to attempt this daring shot, which is through a gap in the trees and over a gully directly to the green. The “Drive The 15th Experience” is free with unlimited play and no registration at www.wgt.com/celticmanor.
Gareth Rees Jones, Marketing Director at Celtic Manor said, “We are excited to be partnering with World Golf Tour to offer people around the world the chance to play The Twenty Ten course. The realistic photography means that the Celtic Manor Challenge offers the opportunity to experience some of the key shots that the players on the European and US teams will face at The Ryder Cup.”
Celtic Manor is one of many top golf courses that World Golf Tour offers people to play in virtual reality for free from a web browser. In the past year, WGT has added Oakmont, home of the 2009 U.S. Open, and St Andrews, home of the 2010 British Open. Other award-winning courses on WGT include, Bali Hai, Bethpage Black, Edgewood, Kiawah Island Ocean, Pinehurst #8 and Wolf Creek.
“We’re thrilled to have added Celtic Manor to our game, giving millions of our players another world-class course to play online,” said YuChiang Cheng, CEO of World Golf Tour. “Now anyone in the world can play the exciting Twenty Ten course—and try to drive the 15th hole like the pros!”
World Golf Tour (WGT) is the leader in virtual sports gaming with millions of online players. Anyone can visit www.wgt.com to play its free online golf game in virtual reality on famous courses like Bethpage, Oakmont and St Andrews, which are recreated using HD photography and patented technology. Players can purchase WGT credits to upgrade their virtual golf equipment, play against each other, and enter tournaments for prizes. WGT has partnered with the USGA, R&A and LPGA to host virtual championships of major golf tournaments, awarding over $100,000 in prizes since launching in 2008.
Host venue for The Ryder Cup in 2010, the five-star Celtic Manor Resort is set in more than 1,400 acres of panoramic parkland at the gateway to Wales. With two hotels–a 330-room luxury Resort Hotel and an historic 19th century Manor House with 70 rooms–two exceptional spas, two state-of-the-art health clubs, a shooting school, fishing, tennis courts, mountain biking and walking trails, The Celtic Manor Resort provides a complete experience for business, leisure and golf travelers. In 2007, 2008 and 2009, the Resort was voted the Number One Conference Hotel by readers of Conference and Incentive Travel Magazine. Home of The Celtic Manor Wales Open, one of the premier events on The European Tour, the Resort offers the challenge of three 18-hole championship golf courses, including the new Twenty Ten course, the first course in history to be designed and built specifically to host The Ryder Cup.
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