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2018
Four Winds Invitational to Be Held June 8-10
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Seventh annual
tournament will take place
at Blackthorn
Golf Club in South Bend
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South
Bend, IN – March 2018 / Newsmaker Alert / The
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and its Four
Winds® Casinos are pleased to announce that the 2018
Four Winds Invitational will be held from Friday, June 8 through Sunday,
June 10 at Blackthorn Golf Club, located at 6100 Nimtz Parkway, South Bend.
The seventh annual tournament will feature a field of professional women
golfers from around the world competing on the Symetra® Tour – Road
to the LPGA®. The 2018 tournament will include 144 golfers who will
be playing for a $150,000 purse.
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 “We
are proud to bring back the Four Winds Invitational to South Bend for the
seventh straight year,” said John P. Warren, Chairman of the Pokagon Band
of Potawatomi Indians. “We’ve watched as this event has grown in popularity
for the players, and for the community. Through this growth, we’ve been
able to donate significant proceeds for valuable, lifesaving equipment
at Beacon Children’s Hospital.”
In
the past six years of the Four Winds Invitational, more than $430,000 in
tournament proceeds have been donated to Beacon Children’s Hospital. Additionally,
more than $1 million in prize money has been awarded to athletes playing
in the tournament. 50 golfers who competed in South Bend have graduated
from the Symetra Tour and moved on to the LPGA Tour, including 2015 tournament
winner and Major Champion Brooke Henderson and 2016 winner Jackie Stoelting.
“A
tremendous thank you to the Pokagon Band, Four Winds Casinos, our sponsors
and every volunteer who work tirelessly over the past six years to ensure
that the Four Winds Invitational continues to be among the best tournaments
on the Symetra Tour,” said Tim Firestone, Owner and General Manager of
Blackthorn Golf Club. “This year we’ll introduce a new event taking place
the week of the tournament. In the coming weeks and months, we’ll release
additional details on that and all events surrounding the tournament.”
The
Four Winds Invitational is one of four Symetra Tour events that is part
of the fifth annual Potawatomi Cup, which has a total prize pool of $40,000.
It awards Symetra Tour players a bonus based on performance at events sponsored
by four Potawatomi nations’ casinos.
About
the Four Winds Invitational
The
Four Winds® Invitational was established in 2012 as part of the Symetra®
Tour - Road to the LPGA®, and is sponsored by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi
Indians and Four Winds® Casinos. It is held at Blackthorn Golf Club,
located at 6100 Nimtz Parkway, South Bend, Ind. The tournament features
a field of professional women golfers from around the world. More information
is available at www.fourwindsinvitational.com.
About
The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
The
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians’ sovereignty was reaffirmed under legislation
signed into law by President Clinton in September of 1994. The Pokagon
Band is dedicated to providing community development initiatives such as
housing, education, family services, medical care and cultural preservation
for its approximately 5,000 citizens. The Pokagon Band’s ten-county service
area includes four counties in Southwestern Michigan and six in Northern
Indiana. Its main administrative offices are located in Dowagiac, Mich.,
with a satellite office in South Bend, Ind. In 2007, it opened Four Winds
Casino Resort in New Buffalo, Mich., followed by Four Winds Hartford in
2011 and Four Winds Dowagiac in 2013. Four Winds South Bend will open in
early 2018. It owns and operates a variety of business via Mno-Bmadsen,
the tribe’s non-gaming investment enterprise. More information is available
at www.pokagonband-nsn.gov,
www.FourWindsCasino.com
and www.mno-bmadsen.com.
About
Four Winds Casinos
Four
Winds New Buffalo, located at 11111 Wilson Road in New Buffalo, Mich.,
Four Winds Hartford, located at 68600 Red Arrow Highway in Hartford, Mich.,
Four Winds Dowagiac, located at 58700 M-51 South in Dowagiac, Mich., and
Four Winds South Bend, located at 3000 Prairie Road in South Bend, Ind.,
are owned by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians. Four Winds New Buffalo
offers 130,000 square feet of gaming with more than 2,600 slot machines,
50 table games, five restaurants, entertainment bars, retail venues, a
pool, and a 415-room hotel, making it the premier gaming resort in the
Midwest. Four Winds Hartford features more than 550 slot machines, nine
table games, a 74-seat restaurant, and a 15-seat bar. Four Winds Dowagiac
features 400 slot machines, seven table games and one restaurant. Four
Winds South Bend has 55,000 square feet of gaming space, 1,800 games, four
restaurants, three bars, a players lounge, a coffee shop, and a retail
outlet. Please play responsibly. You must be 21 years of age to gamble.
For more information on Four Winds Casinos, please call 1-(866)-4WINDS1
(866-494-6371) or visit www.FourWindsCasino.com.
Additionally, be sure to like Four Winds Casinos on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/fourwindscasino
and follow on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/fourwindscasino.
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