ADT Skills Challenge

[mvmac]

In case anyone was interested, got this press release from pr guy about the event and when it will be one.  Didn't exactly get the cream of the crop from the PGA tour but might be fun to watch

Quote:

2011 ADT SKILLS CHALLENGE FEATURES ANNIKA’S RETURN TO COMPETITION VS.  ZACH JOHNSON, NICK FALDO AND MORE

20th annual shotmaking test on NBC Christmas weekend

also has Morgan Pressel, O’Meara, Mediate, Price and Kelly

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New York City (Dec. 15, 2011) – Annika Sorenstam returns to competition for the first time in three years when she and LPGA star Morgan Pressel take on the men in the 20th annual ADT Skills Challenge, airing on NBC Christmas weekend, Saturday and Sunday, December 24 and 25.  Scheduled from 4-6 p.m. in all time zones (check local listings), it is the only golf on network television that holiday weekend.

Three teams made up of standout players from the PGA Tour and the PGA Champions Tour will square off against the women and one another in the traditional, situational shotmaking competition with $800,000 in prize money at stake.  The men’s teams are: Nick Faldo/Rocco Mediate, Zach Johnson/Jerry Kelly and Mark O’Meara/Nick Price.

It is the first time in ADT Skills Challenge history that two women will form a team to compete with male counterparts in the battle for gender pride and prize money.  The PGA Tour-sanctioned competition is one of the longest-running post-Fed Ex Cup events in golf and the only one that remains on broadcast network TV.

[TourSpoon]

A guy I know just played in a charity event with Annika last weekend. He says she still has it despite her telling the group that she has lost significant distance and touch. The event is at The Breakers Ocean course over in Palm Beach, so it makes sense that Pressel (Boca) is playing along with the Orlando contigency and Jupiter's Price.