(December 9, 2002)                                                                                          Hot News Main Page

Women Who Will Play in PGA Event Hires An Agent

PORTLAND, OR (December 9, 2002) Golf pro Suzy Whaley has hired Peter Jacobsen Productions, Inc. (PJP), to represent her in all golf-related contractual agreements and personal appearances. PJP will also negotiate sponsor endorsements and other corporate opportunities.

"We're delighted to work with Suzy," said Ed Ellis, president and chief operating officer of PJP. "She's bright, articulate and, obviously, a very good athlete who is destined to impact golf history. It's an exciting time for Suzy."

"It's going to be exciting for both of us," added Whaley. "It will be a close relationship with PJP. I look forward to it."

Whaley, who is a member of the LPGA teaching division and a teaching professional at Blue Fox Run, a public golf course in Avon, Conn., has recently received intense news coverage as the first woman to play in an official PGA TOUR event next year -- the 2003 Greater Hartford Open (GHO). She qualified in September by winning the Connecticut section PGA Championship, giving her an automatic spot in the GHO. She was one of two women in a field of 90.

Media interest in Whaley has been intense since September. It heightened nationally and internationally after she accepted the invitation to play last week.

Whaley, 36, and a mother of two young daughters ages 8 and 5, graduated from and played college golf at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also played on the LPGA Tour for two years in the early 1990s. Her husband, Bill, is the general manager and director of golf of the TPC at River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn., the course where the GHO will be held, July 21-27.

[Source: Peter Jacobsen Productions, Inc. (PJP)]