US Open Champion Retief Goosen, World Number Eight Padraig Harrington, big-hitting John Daly and defending champion Trevor Immelman have committed for the 2005 Deutsche Bank Players’’ Championship of Europe which returns to Gut Kaden, Hamburg, Germany, from July 21-24.
The Deutsche Bank Players’’ Championship of Europe carries a record prize fund of €3.3 million - the highest purse ever to have been offered in any professional sporting event on German soil – with the winner earning €550,000.
Alex Cejka, Bernhard Langer and Marcel Siem will lead the home challenge while other crowd favourites Thomas Björn, Paul Casey, Colin Montgomerie and Ian Poulter, have also confirmed their participation.
“Golfing fans from all over the world can watch many of the game’’s best players tee off in the Deutsche Bank Players’’ Championship of Europe. Since 1997 Deutsche Bank AG has been the title sponsor of this event and we are delighted to once again be able to offer the many golfing fans, both on site and on TV across all continents, the ‘Best of Golf’’,” said Hanns Michael Holz, Managing Director, Corporate Sport Sponsoring of Deutsche Bank AG.
Tickets, which sold out last year, can be ordered in advance on the ticket hotline of 01 80-50 100 20 in Germany or from abroad on +49 (0) 40 - 30 05 13 63, or through more than 5,000 travel agencies and advance booking offices in Germany or online at www.deutschebank-players-championship.de.
Tickets are limited to 20,000 per day to ensure fans get to see the players close up but to give last minute visitors the opportunity to be there, the box offices will have a minimum of 5,000 tickets available daily.
The Deutsche Bank Players’’ Championship of Europe will also have the “Public Centre” and adjoining beer garden, offering a wide range of food and beverages. More than 40 exhibitors will be represented.
For further information please visit www.deutschebank-players-championship.de.
