Rick George Tour Quotations

The professionals of the Champions Tour are unique in the world of sports. Our players actively look for ways to bring fans inside their professional world. This trip is a unique example. It's quite remarkable when you think about it.

We welcome Regions to the Champions Tour family of title sponsors. For 14 years, Birmingham has been one of the premier stops on the Champions Tour. With the commitment and support of Regions, the tournament will continue to be one of Alabama's most popular sporting events, not to mention one of its most charitable endeavors.

The Champions Tour would like to thank Jimmy Lee III and everyone associated with Buffalo Rock Corporation for their outstanding support of this event over the years. Jimmy laid the groundwork for the very bright future of professional golf in northwest Florida.

The Champions Tour is proud to be a part of this partnership. We feel the Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach is one of the most unique events in all of sports, and this relationship will enable this event to give back even more to The First Tee.

The thing that stands out most about the 2006 Champions Tour schedule is its strength and continuity of our sponsorships. Within the last two years, many of our title sponsors have signed multi-year tournament extensions. As a result, the Champions Tour enjoys a very strong underpinning, with some contracts extending as far out as 2010. Our sponsors are committed to this Tour, and the Tour and its players are committed to them in return.

Today's announcement of Boeing becoming title sponsor of our Seattle event is the perfect complement to the other community components already in place and adds yet another very strong company to the Champions Tour roster of sponsors, ... We're going to have an outstanding inaugural Boeing Greater Seattle Classic and we invite golf and non-golf fans alike to join us at Snoqualmie Ridge.

The Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am is a very strong tournament that got even stronger with today's news. Outback has been very innovative and creative since coming on board as a Champions Tour title sponsor in 2004. We are very excited about this extension through 2010 and adding yet another tournament to our lineup of events on NBC.