Golftripz Announces the Ballantine’s Team-Am Golf Challenge 3

September 28, 2012

Golftripz Announces the Ballantine’s Team-Am Golf Challenge 3

The largest international competitive tournament organized for Indian club golfers

Delhi, September 27th 2012 – Ballantine’s and Golftripz, India’s leading Golf Travel Company announces the kick off of its third amateur international tournament for club golfers. Supported by the Tourism Authority of Thailand, the event is being held between 18 -22^nd October 2012, in the cultural capital of the country, Chiang Mai. The premier series known as “Ballantine’s Team-Am Golf Challenge 3”brings together 200 amateur golfers, to compete in a challenging team format.  This is the largest international competitive tournament of its kind to be organised ever for Indian club golfers.
50 teams, 3 rounds of golf and 3 top golf courses
Spread over four days, the Ballantine’s Team-Am will play 3 rounds of golf in teams of four competing against the other. 50 teams will gather to play in 3 of the finest golf courses Chiang Mai offers, including Alpine Golf Resort, Chiangmai Highlands Golf & Spa Resort and Chiangmai Inthanon Golf Resort.  The third edition of the Ballantine’s Team- Am series marks yet another milestone in Ballantine’s success in enabling Indian golfers to experience tournament golf abroad. Previous events were held in Kuala Lumpur in Feb 2012 with 110 participating golfers and in Hua Hin, Thailand in October 2011 with 92 golfers.
Bikram Basu, Vice-President, Marketing Pernod Picard India says “Ballantine’s Team-Am Golf Championship is an excellent concept to bring the best of Golf amateurs to play at trained courses from around the world. Their passion for golf bridges the teams to make for moments which leave an impression.”



“This is third and the largest edition of the event and each time responses suggest an increasing trend amongst HNIs to find gratification for their passion for golf” said Madhav Misra, Director, Golftripz. He additionally stated that “We are committed to the search for “Golfing Zen” every time. With a committed partner like Ballantine’s, we are focused on taking our roster of enthusiasts to the most exotic, challenging, and beautiful courses in various parts of the world.”
“We are extremely excited about the Ballantine’s Team-Am Golf Challenge being held in Chiang Mai. Thailand offers some of the finest golf courses in Asia. In our three year association with Golfpritz, our partnership has grown to becoming more and more focused in enabling Thailand to become a premier golf destination globally” said Sethaphan Buddhani, Director, Tourism Authority of Thailand.

About Ballantine’s
Ballantine’s is the No 1 ultra-premium whisky in Asia Pacific and the No 1 Scotch whisky in Europe, selling over 70 million bottles a year worldwide. Ballantine’s has won over 80 trophies and medals at international competitions in the past 10 years for quality as a result of its unique richness of character and perfect balance. The range, from Ballantine’s Finest to the iconic 30 Year Old, is the most extensive in the world of Scotch and is maintained by the latest in a tradition of Master Blenders that dates back to 1827.
Ballantine’s association with golf can be traced back to at least 1960 when the Ballantine’s Tournament took place at Wentworth golf course. More than fifty years later, Ballantine’s is the title sponsor of the high-profile Ballantine’s Championship, Korea’s first and only European Tour event and the country’s largest golf tournament, to which the brand is committed until at least 2013. Ballantine’s has been official supplier to the Scottish Open since 2007. The first Ballantine’s sponsored golf tournament was played in 1960 at Wentworth Golf Club, England, and Ballantine’s has been an Official Sponsor of the Omega Mission Hills World Cup in 2009 and 2011. It recently added BMW Masters to its Global Golf Platform.

About Golftripz ( www.golftripz.com )
Golftripz is the first Indian golf travel company to conceptualize the “tournament golf holiday” and the series has garnered sustained interest from golfers across. With  Golftripz’s customized golf holidays, golfers  can choose to play in over 20 destinations worldwide and combine it with the local experience. The selection is large – from India, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia to South Africa, the Mediterranean courses in Spain, Italy & Turkey and the old classics in Scotland and Ireland.  New destinations are constantly vetted and some of the recently featured countries have been Dubai, Mauritius, Morocco and Bulgaria.