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2024 PGA Tour Schedule

PGA Tour Unveils Full 36-Event 2024 Schedule

The PGA Tour has released its 2024 FedExCup regular season and FedExCup Playoffs schedule, as the Tour returns to a calendar-year format for the first time since 2012. The 2024 FedExCup regular season, consisting of 36 events, begins in January with the “Opening Drive” at The Sentry and Sony Open in Hawaii – where all […]

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Payne Stewart Invitational

Inaugural Payne Stewart Invitational to Take Place in Palm City

The inaugural Payne Stewart Invitational, the primary fundraiser for the Payne Stewart Kids Golf Foundation, will be held December 3–4, 2023, at the Floridian National Golf Club in Palm City, Florida, to honor the legacy of the three-time major winner and 11-time PGA Tour tournament winner. “Payne’s profound love for people, his unyielding spirit of […]

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National Wheelchair Basketball Association

Fort Wayne to Host National Wheelchair Basketball Association Championship

Turnstone and Visit Fort Wayne will host the 2024 National Wheelchair Basketball Association Women’s and Military Division Wheelchair Basketball National Championships from April 26-28 at the Plassman Athletic Center. “We are honored to welcome the NWBA to Fort Wayne in 2024 and know that Turnstone Center will deliver an elite experience for athletes and attendees, […]

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Kissimmee Rangers FC

Experience Kissimmee Named Official Travel Destination for Rangers FC

Experience Kissimmee has announced a multi-year partnership with Rangers Football Club of the Scotland Premier League, one of the world’s longest-established clubs founded in 1872. The partnership will see Experience Kissimmee named as the official travel destination of Rangers and include naming rights for the Edmiston House Fan Zone outside of Ibrox, stadium branding and […]

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Meijer Sports Complex

West Michigan Sports Commission Receives $1 Million Gift

The West Michigan Sports Commission has received a $1 million lead gift by Meijer toward the overall goal for fundraising to expand the Meijer Sports Complex. The ‘A Winning Streak for West Michigan’ expansion campaign has a current fundraising total to $5.8 million, or 53 percent of its $11 million goal. Based on funding to […]

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Kissimmee Fishing

Kissimmee to Again Host College Fishing Championship

Major League Fishing and the Kissimmee Sports Commission have announced that the 2024 Abu Garcia College Fishing Presented by YETI National Championship will take place on Lake Toho in Kissimmee from January 9–11, 2024. “We are excited to host the Major League Fishing College National Championship for a second year,” said Tyler Weyant, director of […]

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Indy Groundbreaking

Indianapolis Breaks Ground on Convention Center Expansion and New Hotel

City leaders, project representatives, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett and Visit Indy President and Chief Executive Officer Leonard Hoops joined to break ground on the sixth expansion of the Indiana Convention Center and construction of a new convention hotel. While foundational work to redevelop the former Pan Am Plaza began last year, Tuesday’s event marks the […]

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Ce’Nedra Dillard

Visit Greenville Promotes Ce’Nedra Dillard to Sports Sales Manager

The Greenville-Pitt County Convention & Visitors Bureau in North Carolina has promoted Ce’Nedra Dillard to sports sales manager for the Greenville-Pitt County Sports Commission. Dillard also recently received her Sports Tourism Strategist designation. “I am thankful for the opportunity to advance my knowledge about the sports tourism industry by completing my Sports Tourism Strategist designation […]

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Boccia Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne to Host USA Boccia 2023 National Championships

Visit Fort Wayne and Turnstone Center will host the USA Boccia 2023 National Championships, August 3-6 at the Plassman Athletic Center at Turnstone, the first time for a boccia national to be held in Indiana. Boccia is an inclusive sport for seated athletes with and without disabilities. It can be played individually, in pairs or […]

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Bonny Bernat

Bonny Bernat Returns to Visit Winston-Salem

Bonny Bernat is returning to Visit Winston-Salem in North Carolina as senior sports development manager responsible for promoting, generating and increasing sporting events and activities in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Bernat joined Visit Winston-Salem in 2009 as senior sports & events sales manager, a role she held for 13 years. A former chair of the […]

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