The 2006 PGA World Tour Championships, held at Bally’s Casino and Resort in Las Vegas Nevada, saw overall winner Shawn Powers of Alabama USA, walk away $15,000 the richer! The three day event, held over the week end of May 19-21st, attracted 70 entries from 6 countries across the globe, all hoping to tap into the prize pool of $100,000. The winners of the National Tour events of each country automatically qualified for the FREE trip of a lifetime. Glenn Wearn from UK PGA distributor Cosmic Video Amusements told us,” Graham Winson and Oscar Thomas, the two UK qualifiers thoroughly enjoyed their experience, and came back with winning prize dollars in their pocket, which in it’s self is an anomaly for Vegas! They have learnt an awful lot about game play from their interaction with overseas players and I understand that the skill, competitiveness and tension they experienced will help push them and future UK players to bigger and better results”. The Sunday final between Powers and Kevin Potter of South Africa was a gripping event, and was played on an official PGA course ‘Sherwood Country Club’ over a full 18 holes, with a final score of 25 under par to Powers, who, as part of his prize, will be digitally immortalized as a player option on the game. Debbie Minardi, Vice President of Corporate Development at Global VR commented” this first World Championship has been a resounding success, not just for us here at GVR, but for all the distributors, operators and players throughout the World that support our products. With over 2,500,000 on line recorded game plays a year and tournaments that are a reality, we look forward to growth and support for the coming year”. Trevor Green of Coolmax Leisure, a UK operator that traveled and supported the players throughout the event,” the hospitality from GVR, the camaraderie and support between all the international players was superb…and LasVegas wow …what a back drop!”
And the last word from John Farrington of Cosmic Video Amusements was ”all the reports that have filtered back to us have been so, so positive, that it looks like next year will be a bumper occasion for all PGA World Tour golf players”.