World Golf Tour and GGL Global Gaming Bring Golf to Olympics

August 14, 2008

World Golf Tour and GGL Global Gaming are partnering to bring online golf to Internet players through GGL's Digital Games, a worldwide, online video game competition across multiple platforms, genres, and gaming titles. The companies hope to increase awareness and support golf's bid to become an official Olympic Sport.

World Golf Tour is one of the Digital Games in which amateur, professional, and celebrity video gamers will have the opportunity to play against each other from anywhere in the world. Gamers can represent their country in a series of Inter-Continental Regional Qualifiers before advancing to the Digital Games Grand Finals. The Grand Finals is a live event in Shanghai and is part of the "Our Olympic Organizing Committee's 'OOOC'" welcome events, hosted by the China Government.

World Golf Tour and Digital Games Will Introduce Video Game Players to Golf

"World Golf Tour's goal is to introduce new people to golf and we support the sport's bid to join the 2012 Olympics," said YuChiang Cheng, CEO of World Golf Tour. "Gaming was recently declared the '99th Official Sport of China' and with the launch of the Digital Games coinciding with the 2008 Olympics, it's a great opportunity to bring the game of golf to a large international audience and reach out to younger participants. Online golf is much more affordable and can engage those who may not have the means to hit the links in real life."

"Golf, while an individual sport, has always been a highly social activity that knows little age or skill boundaries" said Ted Owen, chairman of GGL Global Gaming. "This partnership leverages the interactivity of our proprietary social networking platform and communities, with World Golf Tour's superior HD golf experience. It's a natural twosome that will serve to deepen the social experience of video gamers and advance the great sport of golf." GGL Digital Games Site Allows Gamers to Master Online Golf Skills

From the GGL Digital Games site, gamers wishing to master their online golf skills are directed to WorldGolfTour.com to play the free online game which requires no download or installation of software. Players get a taste of an authentic online golf experience through the closest-to-the-pin competition. The full version of the game will be available later this summer.